Almond Blossom

Like to an almond tree ymounted hye

  On top of greene Selinis all alone,

    With blossoms brave bedecked daintily;

      Whose tender locks do tremble every one,

        At everie little breath, that under heaven is blowne.

      - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

         (bk. I, canto VII, st. 32) 

My little almond tree is barely 3 feet tall, but in a taste of years to come, is a mass of glowing, white blossoms.

Such a joyful sight during these grey and rainy days.