Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Where's the Smell-o-Vision?
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Temperatures hit 80 today, and the lilacs burst into glorious bloom. Though these two bushes are near the road, I could smell the scent clearly as I left the barn this afternoon.
There are three other lilacs in other places in the yard, kind of surrounding the house. Now that the windows are open, I'm aware of them everywhere.
Believe it or not, this morning before I left for work I stuck my nose straight into this bush and smelled nothing!
I didn't include anything in this photo for size, but these two side-by-side lilacs are about a head taller than my 5 foot 4 inches. And this year they're just blowsy and elegant!
Oh, alright! I couldn't resist adding myself so you can see just how tall they are!
"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." -- Voltaire
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On solitude and chickens
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Thoreau
- There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette
- I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. -- Rilke
- As innocent as a new-laid egg. -- W. S. Gilbert
- Raising children is like being pecked to death by chickens. --Anonymous, but my mother gave it to me!
- Language...has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. --Paul Johannes Tillich
- Life begins when you plant a garden. -- Chinese proverb
- The great omission in American life is solitude...that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. --Marya Mannes
- If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. -- Russian proverb
- When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. --Antonio Porchia
- Cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the eggs. -- Attr. Margaret Thatcher
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
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- My Name is Grace (Hanover)
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- Oh, Johnny! (Lehrer)
- State of Wonder (Patchett)
- Shadow of the Wind (Zafon)
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- The Edge of the World (Buddy Mondlock)
2 comments:
i closed my eyes and i could smell them, really and truly is there a more wonderful smell than lilacs? the 30 springs i spent in california were all missing the smell of lilacs.
in the pacific northwest they haven't come out yet. we haven't hit 70 degrees yet. it hasn't stopped raining yet.
Beautiful. I wish they would grow here. I think it's too hot for them.
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