Original Music from Brian Dyer Stewart #42
The song this cycle is In My Dream.
In Kiev, the horse chestnut, or kashtan, is widely planted and gives a unique vista to the city in April when it comes into its abundant, large, pink and white cones of blooms spread throughout the tree. They grow here in Maine as well, known also as Ohio Buckeyes - though we get the bloom later. Legend has it that the Russian tzar was going to come to Kiev and the tzar's gardener had the streets lined with kashtans which he was sure would delight the tzar. When he returned to Russia and told the tzar, the tzar, without speaking, made a disappointed face and the gardener in his fear raced back to Kiev and had the chestnuts torn out and poplars planted instead. The people, seeing the beautiful, abandoned trees, planted them in their yards throughout the city, where they bloom today. Some tellings of the legend note that a bee was circling the tzar and his grimace was from that.