Sometimes you burn out, most of us just get older and we start falling down

[sovay]

I have in the last few days acquired some kind of so far non-plague fever-bug which feels like insult to injury, but on the other hand I have also gotten a normal amount of sleep for two consecutive nights for the first time in actual months. I spent the afternoon on the couch with a cat, reading John Van Druten's The Voice of the Turtle (1943), Niven Busch's The Furies (1948), and Melanie Williams' BFI Film Classics: A Taste of Honey (2023), this last a present from my mother who nabbed it in the final days of the Book Depository. The lilac in the back yard was amenable to having a small branch broken and brought indoors where it smells fantastic. The other thing the back yard seems to grow beyond leftover junk is violets. I plan to pick some tomorrow. The twilight at the end of the street is currently doing its smoldering apple-green thing.

Comments

[pameladean]

Oooh, violets and lilac are EXCELLENT things to have in combination! I've just seen the first violet leaves in the past few days, and I am really looking forward to my violets. I hope the freckly ones come back. They are a bit finicky about I'm not sure what.

P.

[sovay]

Oooh, violets and lilac are EXCELLENT things to have in combination!

I like them! They are emotionally important at the moment, too.

I've just seen the first violet leaves in the past few days, and I am really looking forward to my violets. I hope the freckly ones come back. They are a bit finicky about I'm not sure what.

Please post pictures if they do! Are they white and purple, or what?

[pameladean]

"I like them! They are emotionally important at the moment, too." Yes! Get with the program, breed lilacs out of the dead land!

As for the violets, they are white with an abundance of faint flecks of violet. I will attempt to document them should they appear this year.

P.