Seasonal drift
Thursday, 27 March 2008
I can’t even guess what kind of phlox this is. BTW, phlox is a funny word, with its roots in the Greek word for flame. Appropriate, no? Yet, phlox varieties are native to North America and northeast Asia!
Today I heard lawn mowers for the first time, both to the south and to the east. Believe it or not!
Of course, the operators could have been conducting last-minute leaf-herding, instead of trimming spring-fresh grass….
In neighborhood news, Dish, once a favorite upscale restaurant of ours, is gone and defunct. A carpenter working on the redesign says the new restaurant going into the former gas-station location will be called Diesel. Still, I’m not warming to the idea of a restaurant named after a poison.
I’m not sure I’d feel that much better if it were named Biodiesel….