What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Answer: I just took this an hour or so ago. It is May 6th and the tulips are just blooming. These are at the front of the house and get morning sun. (This is very, very late in this area, trust me.)
As for Rich's earlier post about Schiller's missing skull (and pretty much all of the rest of his remains), we here at Blue Crab Boulevard swear we have no knowledge of the whereabouts of the poet. Honest.
Because I Felt Like It | Gaius Tuesday, 6 May , 2008
By Maggie, Tuesday, 6 May , 2008 @ 7:20 pm
Gaius
Where are you again?
Here in NE Ohio our tulips are spent.
Crab apple blossoms were peeked last week, and I see lilacs on the neighbor’s lilac trees/bushes …
Question for anyone that is an expert of sorts:
Since very early childhood lilacs have been my absolute favorite. My Grandmothers lilac bush was as tall has her old two story house and was outside her bedroom window. With the window open on a breezy early spring day the scent of the purple flowers flooded the room. Heaven …
I have wanted to plant some on our property since we bought our home 21 yrs. ago. However, my husband swears their roots tangle the drainage and water pipes underground … so he has forbidden them from being planted in our yard. True or False, readers?
By Gaius, Tuesday, 6 May , 2008 @ 7:48 pm
Midwest, Maggie. I dunno about tangling the pipes, but I do know that lilacs are very, very attractive to termites - or so I was told by an exterminator some years ago. He advised planting them far from the house.
By feeblemind, Wednesday, 7 May , 2008 @ 9:40 am
Maggie: I have 15 foot tall lilac ‘fence’ around my yard. They are just getting ready to bloom. They have been here forever. The house is 77 years old and has never had termites (a lot of houses in the area have had termites) and they have never plugged up the sewer line, though I imagine that could happen. I am amazed at how tough they are. They are a very hardy and drought resistant plant.
By Mockinbird, Wednesday, 7 May , 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Gaius,
The tulips are beautiful, but the ligustrum in the background needs trimming. Get on it, or else.
LOL.
By Bleepless, Wednesday, 7 May , 2008 @ 7:20 pm
You are right about your paperweight. It obviously is the skull of Kemal Ataturk. Or maybe David Lloyd George. Or Atahualpa. Or that noisy idiot down the street who — well, maybe better not.