Fu·tures : fyo͞oCHərs : [noun] : the time or a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come.
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Here,
the pear tree in our backyard
is making its yearly spring exhibition, blossoming
in billows of white petals
with pink stamens.
Each blossom has the potential to become future fruit, as delicious pears,
in the fall!
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Sharing with Nancy at ‘Random 5 Friday #27,’ and Tanya at ‘Willy-Nilly Friday 5 #38.’
Here are my five random facts:
1) Yesterday was 75° (24°C.), warm enough to open the house and let the lightly scented breeze freshen the house.
2) The news announced that Amazon has leased an additional 12 million square feet of downtown Seattle office space, occupying 25% of all the footage available.
3) In regard to #2, Amazon will be hiring 70,000 people to fill jobs in that newly leased space, creating a sense of enthusiasm as well as caution.
4) In regard to #3, Seattle has already had experience with a ‘one employer town.’ In the early 70s when Boeing laid off 80,000 people, our economy plummeted into chaos, and spawned billboards that read, ‘Will the last person leaving Seattle, please turn out the lights.’
5) In regard to #2, my questions are: ‘Where will they all live in a city where rents have already sky-rocketed?’ and ‘How will we add 70,000 more vehicles into our gridlocked streets, roads and freeways?’
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~ Blessings Always ~
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‘WEEKLY TOP SHOT’ #171
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Such lovely blooms! Tom The Backroads Traveller
I have never seen a pear blossom! What beauties!
I didn’t comment on your Random Facts! Oh, I can’t even imagine that many people being added to the Seattle traffic! (I’ve been in it only twice, and I wasn’t driving!) And you are right about the rents; it’s ridiculous what it costs to live in many of these cities.
Whether the blossoms become fruit or not, their beauty is a lucious gift.
One employer towns are always at risk.
What a gorgeous sign of spring!
Your concerns about Amazon expanding in Seattle all sound very reasonable! Love your pear blooms!
Such a lovely and bright spring mood!!
We are pretty much all green now, but they were so lovely this year!
Absolutely stunning photo – so real looking.
Our son works for Amazon Kindle in West Virginia – they just built a brand new 3 million dollar building – and that is at WV rates – they are expanding so fast. Hope it works out for Seattle, but I bet most of the people will have to commute.
What gorgeous blooms. The detail is just amazing. – Well Seattle drivers are pretty crazy, I would “never” attempt driving there on my own. We joke here in (Wally World) aka Walla Walla that half of Seattle is moving to our side of the state now.
Amazing details and so beautiful.
A beautiful flower, – spring is in the air!
Beautiful Spring blossom, Madge. We are facing Autumn here in Melbourne…
Lovely, Madge. Thanks for hosting.
Blossoms? What are they? Thanks for sharing your Spring with us, because ours is still playing hide and seek, mostly hide.
Wishing those were in our future (considering it is SNOWING here)…:)JP
Those pear blossoms are so lovely and yes, Amazon moving there is a good news/bad news situation. But I think anytime that a business brings jobs to an area is probably good news. Thanks for the info on your camera. I was thinking about upgrading to the Nikon D810. I have thought about going to the mirrorless cameras, but it’s like starting all over with a new camera and new lenses. Oh what to do!!??
Beautiful macro shot of this fragrant flowers :-))
♥ly greetings from germany
How wonderful ~ Spring time beauty ~ gorgeous macro shot!
Happy Weekend to you,
artmusedog and carol
Pure perfection….thanks so much Madge….I enjoy this blog hop immensely♪
A super shot Madge. Our blossom is very late now this year after a cold and wet March. Thank you for sharing your pear blossom.
Such beautiful blossoms.
Lovely spring blooms!