May. 9th, 2008 03:02 pm
Knee-deep in flowers
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muckefuckMy wish for cooler weather has been granted! Of course, no silver cloud without a pitch-black lining, so I spent all morning with an ugly sinus headache. But a little Advil has put that in its place, and I celebrated with a leisurely walk through downtown.
Saw my first blooming buckeye down by the library and my first lilac over by the bank (and one of these days I need to get a camera so I can take snaps of that bizarre variegated Judas tree by the Sociology building). I first noticed embryonic panicles on the chestnuts at the lakefront last Sunday; none were close to forming actual flowers at that point, but I was already afraid of missing their glory by heading down to STL next weekend. I also saw bright red underdeveloped maple keys last week, but as yet no mature ones helicoptering from the sky. The elms, on the other hand, have already spooged the streets with their seeds.
Tulips are peaking now and both myrtle/periwinkle/vinca and bleeding hearts have been blooming for a while. Lily-of-the-valley plants are up, and should have buds before long, and I've also seen the first peony shoots, but flowers are still weeks away. Also, keine Pfingstrosen zu Pfingsten, lieber Nino! Then there's also the stuff I can't identify: Some campanulate yellow flowers near work that are neither aconite nor buttercups, so I give up, and plenty of shrubs with full umbels of pale blossoms. Some kind of viburnum?
Saw my first blooming buckeye down by the library and my first lilac over by the bank (and one of these days I need to get a camera so I can take snaps of that bizarre variegated Judas tree by the Sociology building). I first noticed embryonic panicles on the chestnuts at the lakefront last Sunday; none were close to forming actual flowers at that point, but I was already afraid of missing their glory by heading down to STL next weekend. I also saw bright red underdeveloped maple keys last week, but as yet no mature ones helicoptering from the sky. The elms, on the other hand, have already spooged the streets with their seeds.
Tulips are peaking now and both myrtle/periwinkle/vinca and bleeding hearts have been blooming for a while. Lily-of-the-valley plants are up, and should have buds before long, and I've also seen the first peony shoots, but flowers are still weeks away. Also, keine Pfingstrosen zu Pfingsten, lieber Nino! Then there's also the stuff I can't identify: Some campanulate yellow flowers near work that are neither aconite nor buttercups, so I give up, and plenty of shrubs with full umbels of pale blossoms. Some kind of viburnum?