Warren's

I was over at Warren's Friday for dinner. We sat on his back porch for cocktails. His yard always looks so good. 

Quite Warm Today

A few different downpours today. The sun came out and it got quite warm and humid. As the sun went down things had cooled of nicely. I had a lovely walk with Athena just before bed.

Lilacs

Photo of a neighbors lilac tree taken just a few days ago. According to Wikipedia, Lilacs "...produce more flowers if left unpruned. If pruned, the plant responds by producing fast-growing young vegetative growth with no flowers in an attempt to restore the removed branches."

We had a beautiful lilac tree at the house on Stevens. I remember Mom pointing it out to me when we moved there when I was three years old. After some years it stopped flowering. We didn't realize that pruning the flowers was detrimental to producing more. I pulled off way too many. It remained for many years but Dad eventually had it removed. It was probably more a lilac bush than a tree but we called it that anyway. 

"In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, 

Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, 

With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, 

With every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard, 

With delicate-color’d blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, 

A sprig with its flower I break."

  -From When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman

Signs of Spring

Seen around the neighborhood recently.

Azaleas

The azaleas are out. 

Anne 2017

Deb's tree, Anne, is looking pretty good this year. 

Scary

60 degrees? On February 21? Scary.