bee in pansy
Photo by J. Harrington
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Meanwhile, I've discovered that watching the bees (not as large as bumblebees, but larger than honeybees) climb up into the columbine flowers is done more comfortably looking out from a downstairs window than looking up while lying prone in the garden. Probably another sign of old age and, maybe, some wisdom finally sinking in. The other thing I've learned from experience is that the breezes we're enjoying aren't conducive to getting in-focus photos of flowers while they're being blown about.
lilac leaves way larger than mouse's ear
Photo by J. Harrington
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Looking at the dates on past year's pictures of hoary puccoon and columbine, I can be certain that specimens of each have bloomed in May and June. It appears that they may often precede but overlap with beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus). At least that's the way my photos tell the story. On the other hand, I'm starting to suspect I'm being too rigid with this "what blooms before what sequencing." It's not like the 25 Days of Advent, is it? I remember from my Massachusetts' days it was time to look for striped bass in Cape Cod Bay when lilac leaves were the size of a mouse's ear, or something like that. (I learned that a year when I was living somewhere with no lilac bushes handy.) It probably would do me some good to do a little more research on phenology folklore for Minnesota.
Folklore
By Dean Young
You shouldn’t have a heart attackin your 20s. 47 is the perfect timefor a heart attack. Feeding stray shadowsonly attracts more shadows. Starve a fever,shatter a glass house. People often mistakethirst for hunger so first take a big slurp.A motorboat is wasted on me even thoughall summer the pool was, I didn’tget in it once. Not in it, not in ittwice. A dollhouse certainly isn’t wastedon a mouse both in terms of habitationand rhyme. Always leave yourself timeto get lost. 50 cattle are enoughfor a decent dowry but sometimes a largergesture is called for like shoutingacross the Grand Canyon. Get used tonothing answering back. Always rememberthe great effects of the Tang poets,the meagerness of their wine, meagernessof writing supplies. Go ahead, drownin the moon’s puddle. Contusionsare to be expected and a long waitin ICU under the muted TVs advertisingmiracle knives and spot removers.How wonderful to be made entirelyof hammered steel! No one knows whyLee chose to divert his troops to Gettysburgbut all agree it was the turning pointof the Civil War. Your turining pointmay be lying crying on the floor.Get up! The perfect age for being buriedalive in sand is 8 but jumping up 33, alludingto the resurrection, a powerful motifin Western art but then go look at the soup cansand crumpled fenders in the modern wing:what a relief. Nearly 80% of the denizensof the deep can produce their own lightbut up here, we make our own darkness.
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