The Cherry Tree

I've been waiting for this day for weeks now, the day that that the trees turned pink. The white cherry blossoms started weeks ago, and from a distance they remind me of snow covered bushes and the winter that is gone. The pink blossoms, though, have held out until now. They started as brown buds. A wind came last week and blew hundreds of them down to the ground and you could tell for the first time that were indeed starting to bloom, but from afar they still looked brown. Today they are pink. They cover the sidewalks like a festive umbrella. They float to the ground and cover the newly tarred sidewalks. They make Trencin beautiful.