YES, I AM STILL HERE peeking out my window on Main Street, and am I the only one who is alarmed at what I believe is the early appearance of spring blooms?
Yellowbells are flagrant yellow. Flowering Quince is its usual shameless red.
Bradford Pears are budding, and the petals of Tulip Trees are already littering the ground.
Another Spring Bloomer I really like is Spirea. I’ve long admired the white blooms but I’ve recently learned that it comes in many colors.
I’ve not had much luck with Spirea which means that I’ve planted it mucho times in many different spots. I memorized the instructions which said it was real easy to grow and to maintain. “So simple even an idiot can grow it,” the instructions said.
But I digress, and we were communicating about cold weather delivering a sneak punch on early Spring bloomers.
So, is it unusually early?
Maybe the blooming activity is at the right time, and it’s just me that is ‘off.’
And really, the only thing for either of us to worry about is if the peaches get caught thinking it’s Spring only to get blindsided by a burst of Winter sneaking in unseen from the Starboard side.
I’ve already had one neighbor tell me that he was anxiously anticipating the arrival of pink blooms on the Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree in my front yard.
It’s a tough tree. As a sapling it even survived sitting in a dark corner of a US Post Office regional facility for a couple of weeks while the mails were frozen in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.
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NOT ALWAYS dry desert.
An article in the recent issue of “Smithsonian” magazine speculates that in a few millennia or so the Great Sahara Desert will have trees and flowers and grasses again. We’ve (humanity) always known that a few millennia ago it was that way. It sure ain’t that way now. The Sahara is the greatest desert on the face of the Earth, and has been for a looooooong time.
But these are scholarly types that are predicting the green return, not the lying liberal media.
Scholarly types have found fossils of sea creatures hidden among the rocks and sands, so we know that things were once very different in the Great Sahara Desert.
I place my hopes with the scholarly types who observe the kind of teensy changes that makes them think the Sahara will return to the green.
I won’t be here, and I sincerely hope humans will be, although sometimes I have doubts.
Another way we know that the Sahara was once very different is in the rock art by tribal artists. Some of it has been around for a loooong time. There are artistic rock engravings that depict animals which have never even seen a desert, much less lived in one.
But, it’s other things that make the scholarly types believe a green change is coming.
I would try to explain but I’m sure you wouldn’t be interested.
Millennia means 1,000 years.
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WHERE ARE THEY? I sometimes still lose sleep over the whereabouts of Amelia Earhardt and Jimmy Hoffa. I hate to keep asking about this.
I no longer think either of them will be found mostly intact. Amelia’s remains were probably eaten by crabs, and Jimmy likely has a lungful of concrete. Rewards are still being offered, however, so there will always be people who are looking.
If you have any information please send me a message in care of the Lost Sleep Hotline.
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THIS YEAR Lent (Christians) and Ramadan (Muslims) coincide.
Many Christians traditionally fast and give up something for Lent.
Pope Leo suggests that Christians might consider giving up hateful words for Lent.
I don’t know if Muslims also give up anything for Ramadan.
I suppose they could give up beheading Christians.
I seriously doubt if there are many Muslims who are giving up M&M Peanuts.
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MORE THINGS I LEARNED from opening an email: WRINKLES — Something other people have …. similar to what I call my character lines.
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WORD GAMES. I love oxymorons: Honest, Officer. I wasn’t napping at the stoplight. I was having a waking dream (really napping).
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HE SAID: “You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago — even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.” Bad Bunny, stage name for a mid-level talent from Puerto Rico
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SHE SAID: “I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.” Erma Bombeck, witty newspaper columnist from Chicago
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SWEET DREAMS, Baby
