We are coming up on the six year anniversary of living in our house in lovely old town Livermore. We fell in love with the wide streets, the older homes and the proximity to the charming down town area.
One thing we always wanted was a crab apple tree in our front yard. Just before we got the notion to sell our last home we redid the front landscaping and one of the features was a crab apple tree. It was just a sapling so we never go to see it grow and blossom.
We first saw our current house in the doldrums of February. All the trees were still leafless and all the roses were slumbering. What we didn’t realize at the time was there was/is a magnificent crab apple tree right in the middle of our front lawn. It wasn’t until it started blooming that we realized it. What a bonus! It has a beautiful shape and blossoms beautifully late in April.
Right down the street from us someone has planted a bower of crab apple trees that creates a fabulous tunnel over the sidewalk.
There are 16 trees in total and every year, around this time, I start driving along that particular street to see if they are blooming yet. For some reason everyone else’s crab apple trees bloom way earlier than ours. I’m not sure why that is.
But while I wait for our tree I get to enjoy this gorgeous display.
It’s just one of the many charming features of our neighborhood.
