25 February 05
Spring
Numenius has installed a weather applet (Meteo) on our laptop which means I’m keeping tabs on the weather here, in Maine, in Boston, and in Juneau, where friends and family live. I definitely feel guilty wondering which blossoms to draw when I see everyone else is getting snow today.
Guilty or not, the blossoms here are on their inexorable march; the almond ones have blown away, giving place to the much smaller white plum blossoms. The pale pink nectarine and darker pink peach blossoms are next. We lost a cherry tree four years ago to rot and and the peach might be heading that way (helped along by an overzealous northern flicker), but they’re beautiful while they last.
- Can I request a quince? I think it’s my favorite. I almost cut some today along the creek path, but I didn’t have anything to take a twig cleanly off with.— susurra 27. February 2005, 18:37 Link
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