Day 164: Blooms

Day 164: Blooms
Originally uploaded by kfisto

Red dogwoods in bloom. Does anybody have "The Legend of the
Dogwood"? I have that postcard, somewhere! My grandmother had it
framed. It told how the dogwood was used for the wood of the cross
and that's why the petals or sepals of the dogwood bloom (the white ones especially) have a rust-red color on the 4 sepals which stand for the nails in the hands, one through the feet and the blood from the
crown of thorns.