Wondering about wild grapes

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Wondering, is it having its last fling?

About a week or so ago, I had to go to the doctor's office for a check-up and blood test before he would renew my presciption again.  My doctor had just moved into a rather new building on the south west loop around town.  That was OK with me, since it is easier for me to get to his office.  I have to admit, it is a lot better place than where he was before.  He has a lot more room there and it is nice place.  The flowering magnolia trees planted in front were blooming but they had a lot of brown leaves.  I am wondering if they are dying or if the brown leaves are just from the shock of transplanting.  The blooms are beautiful:
 


But if you look at a larger view, you can see the brown leaves:


And here is a bloom that is wide open:
 

And a wider view shows both blooms and my Jeep parked in the parking lot:
 
 
I do hope they make it and those blooms are not just its last fling.  Now, here is wishing you many, many flings and also a beautiful day today, you hear?
 
 
             

11 comments:

  1. Love those trees. There's a really old one in back of my dotter's house.

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  2. You really are a "take time to smell the roses" type guy. In this case, the magnolias.

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  3. Trouble, there are two kinds of those trees. The "tame" cultivated ones like this one which are called flowering magnolias don't get too large but the wild variety does. The wild ones only have a few blooms on them and none the first 15 years of its life.

    Sixbears, I have always been like that. I try to always see the beauty around me.

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  4. I love those magnolia trees. They bring back fond memories of playing as a young girl in my grandparents' yard, where they had several.

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    1. Jill, when I was growing up in western Pennsylvania, we had a flowering magnolia in our yard. It always budded out before the last frost and very seldom was able to bloom, but when it did, it was beautiful.

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  5. Nothing like the smell of the magnolia flower!

    Reminds me of a girl I used to know!

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  6. Lets hope it is not its last fling and that it still has more flowers to give.

    Love the smell of a magnolia bloom.

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  7. Being from SE Ohio I rarely ever saw a magnolia in bloom. Early buds + late frost = no flowers and brown leaves. There was one on my way to town that I'd look for every spring.... being the optimist that I am. One year I looked over... tree was laying on the ground. Elizabeth had had enough of her magnolia getting frosted and took an axe to it. The next spring there was an ornamental cherry tree with gorgeous flowers in that spot.

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  8. HJ, yes they have a great fragrance. That girl friend of yours must have smelled real goooood.

    MsB, Since I will going back to that doctor now and then, I will keep a watch on it.

    The O.E., see my reply to Jill above. Either are pretty, but the magnolia sure does better down south.

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  9. The magnolia can recover and the blossoms replenished. My friend, I wish you and the magnolia, well.

    Gary

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    1. They do have such beautiful blooms, I hope it does recover.

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