Brooklyn Smells

A Linden Blooms in Brooklyn

On June 19th my summer officially began. It took the calendar a couple days to catch up. But my summer begins with my first whiff of linden tree flowers and that happened on June 19th not the 21st. Linden’s extra special because it doesn’t announce itself like magnolias or cherry trees. It’s unassuming.

Most of the linden trees that I’ve seen in Brooklyn have wide, bright green leaves that shelter clusters of small, creamy yellow flowers that bloom in late spring. Unless you catch the honey-like scent on a breeze, you might be directly under one before you know it’s that kind of tree. I need to exercise my blog muscles, so I took pictures. Then thought, “How can I work this into the blog? What’s the connection between knitting and linden?” (more…)