…and it’s very easy to get that sensation. I am surrounded by them. So as usual I’m overdoing things a little. I just went in the yard and took this picture; they look stunning and smell heavenly. They won’t be around long, so it’s important to enjoy them while they’re here. That’s good to keep in mind for a lot of things. I hope you have some near you:
Another lovely white lilac
It’s a lilac riot:
You just cant have too many lilacs
I learned on NPR this morning that today (14 April) is the day John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. I also learned that Walt Whitman wrote his elegy for Lincoln “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”. Which after all my education and reading I never put two and two together. Now, when lilacs in my yard bloom, I’ll always enjoy their beauty and their fragrance at the same time I think of Lincoln’s bravery and Booth’s cowardice. Wow. Lilacs. Amazing.
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