Today I saw a blond young woman of about 25, in expensive clothes, standing on a corner near the Bois de Boulogne with her fancy dog, waiting to cross the boulevard. In her hand was a large bouquet of long branches like this. I stared. There are no cherry blossoms for sale at any of the florists, and there are no florists anywhere near where she was standing. She had cut them down from a beautiful tree in the public park.
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I've seen people do this before, grab a branch of bloom from either public trees or shrubs or even from private gardens they pass by. Obviously their mothers hadn't drilled them with the phrase "What would happen if everyone did that?" as mine did. Hard to fathom, really.
Posted by: materfamilias | 09 March 2012 at 17:21