@flaflwrgrl & @Newyorkrita We got home in time to see it in full bloom this year as well as last year. The tree is just off our family room and back deck. I can sit in my chair and look out the window and see it. We bought this tree in memory of DH's Dad after he passed away and always refer to it as "Dad's Tree."
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam