Close photo of a cluster of the pink buds and white blossoms of a hawthorn tree. We find the blossoms lit as though by some magic within, a pretty nosegay in the center of a red-brown stem that crosses a hollow of shadows deep in the heart of the tree. There are ten small, white flowers with crowns of pretty filaments and cherry red anthers in their centers, the blooms like fairy popcorn, and half a dozen or so tight pink buds cupped in olive sepals like warm, stubborn kernels that refused to pop. The hollow is in soft focus, the fairy lights of interior buds glowing in the depths where they catch the sunlight.
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