White Tree, Spring

If you’re from Indiana, you know about Brown County.
It’s an hour south of Indianapolis.
The best way to get there is by taking the winding back roads
      through places like Needmore, Beanblossom, and, my favorite, Gnaw Bone.
Brown County is the gift of a tired old glacier that stopped
      a few miles short of there,
      having leveled everything northward while leaving this beautiful contour
                  of hills, valleys, and lakes along its advancing edge.
Spring and fall are especially lovely in that part of the world.
This image comes from the state park at its center.
In any season but spring you hardly notice this tree,
      and then only for a few short days.
But when you’re a tree in bloom,
      and a photographer is lurking nearby,
            that’s long enough.