Laburnum anagyroides

2017, Friday the 10th February.  Daylight has already driven out the dark, the storm seems to have a rest and the raindrops are half smaller than last night.  Any comment about the, by the storm, lost blossoms of the Laburnum anagyroides, a tree popularly called Goldenshower* in Dutch, is lost in the translation to English. That’s why the sawdust maker, after Tai Chi lessons he weekly follows on Thursday, in the company of only migrant women, didn’t make any remarks in the discussion about the limited time of beauty and the mess that the yellow strands of flowers leave behind. While the "Western" world is rapidly becoming a Trumpianic, Hitleresque and Wilderianic era, internal security services are restructured after example of the former Stasi or Pide,  people’s privacy is, as fish in an ocean, swept together with drag nets. On the lonely Hill there is a growing need for spring because the stock of firewood takes on serious minimalist forms.  The weekend stands, along with the ten-day weather forecast, outside on the doorstep and has no intention to fulfill the desire for heat and light.  As a Scandinavian wanderer discovered that Iran is a country full of warm and friendly people, North-Dutch earthquake victims experience what election rhetoric actually means and US Republican senators experience the drawbacks of a sold out event full of critical citizens, the  Golden Chain Tree shows very naturally the situation before and after the agreement with the Arborist. The promised flowers have a short life,the period of clearing up the mess is long, heavy and intensive.  The clientele of the tree breeder expands, more and more buyers gaze to the heavenly blossom and despite that the acid times that come after the sweet moment is consuming an infringement time on living, there are but a few who dare to intervene radically with a chain saw.  How beautiful that temporary promises may be, I take the firewood anytime....

*Golden Chain Tree