Update On the Crab Apple Prayer - With Photos

Caption: Blossoms from trees, particularly, a crab apple tree I planted as a child.*

Words cannot describe how amazing this was.

I was outside for about five hours, photographing flowers, examining petals and taking in sun and sitting in shade and supervising Felix, then eventually seeing grandma and my mom and Daniel and the kids.

New “best day ever” for this year. (Oh my goodness. This is the same calendar date as the day I had... last year I called “best day ever”. This year is was a walk with Jehovah, and for lovely chunks of time N2 and members of my family.)

I took a million pictures and been posting on stories, and did a couple permaposts, too. 

I'm so happy right now.

The lawyer called back this morning as soon as I arrived at the tree and I used Google screening to tell them I'd call them back and I do not regret it.

When I first went up to the tree, I had been running around getting ready, and thought I just missed the pocket of sunshine. 

I was happy to be taking photos anyway even though it was a bit overcast, getting just a couple warmer photos, and honestly just so grateful to be able to see and touch my crabapple trees lush blossoms this year up close. 

Then the sun came.

And it has stayed... *all day*.

This. This is answered prayer, good gift, perfect present, true favourite kind of memory.

Thank you, Jehovah. 

Mom had asked me if I still feel feeling happy ever in my life is hopeless. “I don't think so right now”, I replied.

...I had taken photos with my crabapple tree at the beginning, with me in them/selfies, and they're not bad. But then at the end I went back out just after, feeling. So happy, to take a few more.

These ones are better, and brighter. And not only with the sun.

I took a bunch of video clips too, but one of my other favorite videos now is one where I rusted my phone standing up on the steps just across from the crabapple tree conveniently, and then did a video of me running over to my tree, swinging around it hand on its trunk and examining the flowers.

People say core memory to refer to things in childhood. This feels like a core memory, today; and this video feels like a video of core memories all al the same of time both from my childhood, and now 🩷

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*Will hazard to guess, more photos to come lol.

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More, which took about five seconds to start being updated:

Food pic I unarchived. A friend, DK, forwarded it into a group chat I'm in and said he will pay $100 to have this delivered 😂

Core memory 🍎 

(stills from the video)