By the factory gate

On the way to do the weekend food shop, I took a look at a favourite cherry tree in the neighbourhood near the River Don, a few minutes' drive  from our house. Once a centre of both light and heavy industry, it's now a mix of gentrified apartments and a few remaining small factories.
This is a favourite tree, or rather a pair of trees. Next to the large one, there's the stump of another, still sprouting stubby branches.  The larger one shows signs of some quite radical pruning at some point in its past. For now, it still wraps itself around the corner of the neighbouring factory building, with a few bits of abandoned debris below its branches. I need to get down there on a working day, to see whether the factory is still in business or not.
I took this with the Lensbaby lens, so a lot of it is in soft focus.  This lens is still quite new to me, and I'm not sure that the experiment worked.  I was playing around with trying to create a degree of softness in both brickwork and blossom. Probably worth another go, before all the blossom blows off.