I remember my childhood and my grandparents' house. That's where I spent the most beautiful moments in my life. When life does not mean worries, problems and obligations. When I did not know how hard it was to assure the need for existence.
I only had two worries: to run all day with friends on hills and forests and eat from time to time.
One month ago my mother died, my grandmother died twenty years ago. I went for the funeral in the little town I grew up in, at my grandmother and mother's house. Now is my brother's house, a big one that replaced the little house I grew up in.
Almost nothing is the way I remember. In front of the house was a big tree that I loved a lot. A rare tree, didn't have anyone else as around us.
In Romanian it was called Malin. I don't know the English name. The Latin name is Padus avium.
Unfortunately, he is no longer in front of the house. He died long ago.
Last days I had a very big surprise. In Iasi, the city where I live for a few months, I saw a tree in a park near my home. I was shocked! I felt away from the unmistakable fragrance of the flowers. In fact, flowers are the special part of this tree. Blooms in early spring.
The tree looks like a huge bush, filled with white flowers that you think is covered with snow. Overall it is not very spectacular. The perfume of the flowers is spectacular and I'm sorry I can not show it here.
A few words about this tree so special. It is easily recognizable due to the white flowers, grouped in salmon-like inflorescence and with a pleasant and penetrating odor. Malin is also appreciated as an ornamental tree being grown in gardens and parks due to the shape of the crown and the strongly aromatic flowers.
Malin is a medicinal tree. From Malin can be used fruits that are consumed in juices or processed into pasta, or fresh. Bark is used due to diuretic properties - it increases the volume of urine eliminated. It also increases sweating and reduces nerve excitement in the stomach and kidneys, helping to eliminate stomach and kidney pain.
Flowers! The flowers of Malin are spectacular and I like them very much, especially when they are looked at closely. I think you will agree.
It was such a great and pleasant surprise to meet again with this tree. The tree of my childhood. The perfume of my childhood.
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