jacaranda tree and Jasmine vines

Under the jacaranda tree there is a carpet of periwinkle blue. The flowers made wonderful necklaces and popped when you rode your bike over them. The Jacaranda trees were one of my favorites. They really did not have any scent. Their tubular periwinkle blue or yellow flowers (depending on the tree) were excellent necklace material… but they were best when you rode your bike across them. Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! They went. Everyday my brother and I would ride across them and make them pop. When there were no unpoped flowers left we would try to make more flowers fall so we could ride on them again. My balcony originally had a vine that had purpley blue passion flowers. It had a delicate scent and it did not blossom profusely. Salem said it was very rare for it to be there. When the thief broke into our house one night by climbing up the passion flower vine, my father ordered it cut down. I cried and begged but he would not listen. After a month had gone by Salem came to me and said he had a secret to show me. I followed him out the Kitchen door and round to the back yard. In the place where my passion vine once grew was a new plant. I looked at him and laughed. It was a new jasmine vine. “shhhh”, he said ‘It will take a few years to grow up to your balcony. By then your father would have forgotten about the vine.” I hoped he would be right but I still mourned for the vine.