Musings

Always graceful, The Botanist preferred the out-of-doors, and unequivocally thought food sacred. He worked his garden to perfection, growing a wide variety of produce for his family, neighbors, and friends.

We lost him today, late in the afternoon, during a spring that came unseasonably early, allowing him to watch the asparagus become pickable by mid-March (unheard of here in SoMI), and the weeds march across the garden plot, except for the strawberry bed, weeded with care by my bro several weeks back.

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Note how the leaves are almost coming in….

Mid-afternoon, after the rain stopped, we watched three bunnies…frolicking…in the corner of the garden, lower right.

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We discovered the ornamental pears in front of East Lansing’s former Post Office are just gorgeous (do I use that word too frequently? and indiscriminately?).

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Does it all come down to light? Is light the essence of visual aesthetics?

Is light it?

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The promised frost did hit our piece of the planet earth in the wee hours, and I’ll be having translucent asparagus with lunch, since I didn’t get them picked yesterday. The color was just gorgeous as the sun shone through the stem. Little guys, like the one on the right, and pencil-thin specimens, like the one on the left, made it through okay.

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We are warned to expect frost tonight. Blossoms are rather susceptible; we’ll see how this peach fares—although the Botanist says the peaches this tree produces aren’t worth it.

I’m sorry; gotta go. I see the asparagus patch needs picking again….

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On the 16th, just nine days ago (if my math is right), the greenery on this lilac were little leaf-nubbins. Today, the bloom-spikes are ready to roll!

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Is this Tar-zhay’s answer to the latest high color contrast ad campaign by JCP?

Oooh. Snuck away and had lunch out with my Sweetie. (Ah, blessed respite.) A colorful sushi lunch….

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Rainy day, yet the blooms still glimmer, even at dusk.

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Can it still be March? Calendar says yes. Trees say: pay attention to the jet stream, weather.

I say, I’m on the threshold of being here a month, and I do not think today’s events brought me closer to exiting. Cross your fingers that blood transfusions and antibiotics turn things around quickly (I am).

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