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Blogs by Erik Hare Catalpa 6/26/2007 8:43:20 PMStories are all around us. There is a reason behind how things are and why they were arranged the way they were. Sometimes, the stories are alive even as they stand in silence.
Catalpa speciosa . It is an odd tree, with broad leaves and beans that hang off of it all year long. It is not a pretty tree by any stretch, and its twisted branches often fall off in the faintest breeze. For one week a year, however, it is covered in delicate white flowers with the shape and scent of orchids. Around the Summer Solstice a snow of them falling provides a fragrant echo of Winter. Catalpas have their own sense of time.
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