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樱花
5/2/2020
五月的第二天，迎接我的是落在后院里的那束阳光。昨天气象台播报这个周的气温将达到77F, 想必是初夏时节的感觉。
正对门的那棵东部枫树，现在至花盛时，五瓣的黄绿色的小花簇拥成一团团的花球。它已立在这里几年了，天天与它相见，而真到这个春天我才知道它是一棵枫树，会在春天里开绿色小花的枫树。想来不可思议，又觉可笑。但待得知邻居的一对美国老夫妻，也和一样时，就变得坦然了。“真的？这怎么会是花？我说是叶。咱们观察着，走着看”，老太太坚持她的，这是叶不是花的观点。“不像，这像是花。”听老先生说，我心里乐了。观点与我相同，咱们等着瞧。
答案在四五天后就有了。那是花，而非叶。那天，我看到了叶子的踪迹---一朵朵才冒出尖的叶芽。
清风相伴，我朝公园的方向行进。马路右边原是一片灌草丛生的神秘之地，去年雪下得正憨时，几个壮汉外加上一辆悍车来了，把电线杆周围的一大片枯枝蛮草清理一光。等到三月时，发现那空地上拱出了一尖尖的油绿，惊喜不已。几天后，当那点尖绿渐渐长高，我看出它们是生长在塘边，溪边常见的车轮草样的植物。被那一苗苗的油绿吸引，有一次我从路边，向它们走去，没想到刚走到一半，脚下就有湿粘的感觉。胆小的我，只好收脚撤退。走回马路上，再看它们两眼。几日前，却发现那油绿变成了黄绿，带着让人担心的病色。开始不解，后来明白了：这几日气温高，太阳大，那片地有点干了。
右手的那片还是那般黄绿，向左手望去，却惊见一棵小树的绿叶中现出点点粉红。那是什么树？长在那片去年才开出的石子路边，旁边身后是一片无人灌草。满怀好奇，我等远处的两辆车驶过，才通过冷清的马路，朝它走去。没想到，只那看花一眼，我就庆幸自己的决定。花瓣樱红中染着白色，一朵花就是一幅水粉画。这么美的一棵树，因为长在无人靠近的路上，而没人能欣赏到它的美丽。真是：酒香也怕巷子深。
公园里前后两个停车场已被三四十辆车子差不多占满。绿毯一样的草地装点着蒲公英的黄色白伞，公园里是行走的人和狗，还有放风筝的孩子。
一直在观注公园尽头的那两列樱花树。因为去年发现它们是樱花树时，已是樱花开始残败时，遂心生遗憾。今年，早早地，就去看它们的动静。当那种粉白色的东京樱花开得正盛时，这种樱树的空枝上才生出黄豆大小的棕褐色小球。从那时，到现在已经近一个月了，几乎天天去看两眼。从昨天的迹象，我知道今天到时候了。
远远看到它们时，心就开始激动起来。果然，第一棵树上，多数还是含苞待放状，但半空处，看到一朵。。。
THR 2ND day of May started from the first glance of bright sunshine pouring on my back yard. From the weather forecast I heard yesterday, I knew this weekend's temperature will bring people a mild summer-like feeling.
After having a simple breakfast with an English muffin with egg and cheese, a glass of milk, I began reviewing the vocabularies I learned yesterday by reading a novel and an online article. I scribbled them on slices of paper I cut from A4. I don’t know why, it make me feel better than writing on a whole of A4 paper. I learn everywhere, novel, business and political articles, TV news, and also from reading the articals in Nuandong’s blog. Everything when you grow them into a hobby, it turns to a fun thing instead of a burden. I feel this myself, but from a book or from anyone else.
The maple tree in front of my house is in full blossom. The tree has been in my eyes for years, but I don’t know it’s a maple tree with flowers in spring till this spring. It sounds unbelievable, but I found I am not the only one who neglected this, my neighbor, a couple in their 60s are same. It’s me telling them this is a maple tree and those are its flowers, not leave. Both of them were gasped, “we will watch, we will see” the wife said with skeptical eyes.
People here can’t resist the temptation from warm sunshine . I realized this the first year I got here. Today, at 9:00am, tens of cars have almost fully occupied the two small parking lots. The park with green-blanket-like grass is scattered with walking people,dogs, kite-flying kids.
Nice try in writing bilingual journals. I can tell you put a lot of efforts, and are making progress. Just keep reading and practicing!