This would be my lilac bush...
And it's so hard to take mid-May, especially after weekends in the yard and at the nursery and taking pictures of nascent growth.My work calls for a couple of after-hour trips back to the lab for the mad science-y stuff I do. So there I was, 3 AM, traveling the deserted roads of our faire burg. Because, after all, our brave little burg isn't NYC and sleeps at night. Those above mentioned deserted roads were wet and deep with slushy snowiness.
I follow a pretty set path to work and home again, much like an old horse finding her way to her pasture. But geez oh peez, does my way back to pasture sure look different in the dark! In the slushy slushiness, I stayed in the left lane, even though my habit is to drive in the right lane. And a good thing I did!
Broken limbs! Carnage! End of days! Well, maybe only a few broken limbs, really, but if I was driving along all lah-ti-dah, or more like...half asleep... in my usual lane...well, it would have been a rude awakening!
Very glad I am for dragging my raggedy a__ out of bed at the crack of dawn on Saturday to get some photos of the local trees wearing their spring finery. Because all the spring finery is surely the worse for wear now.
Well. It's moisture. And I don't think it's so cold that every little thing is getting it's toes frozen, especially with the blanket of snow. But darn it, somehow I could live with 'rain' so much easier...being May and all.
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Amen, Sister!!!
My whine is that it has been raining and thundering and lightning all day...and now we have tornado alerts. I know we have to have weather, but sometimes it just makes me tired!
Waaaaa waaaaaa waaaa!
I took one look at the photo and thought "How did she sneak into my yard?" That looks like MY fence and MY lilac! I don't ever plant or do yard work before Mother's day and Mother's day was a week earlier this year. I guess my procrastination has paid off -- this time.
Colorado in May ...
ahh...
not so fond memories of trees in flower brought down by spring snows...
can't really say we have the same here in NJ
:)
Wow. This does not compute in my Southern Fried brain.
Did you cut a bouquet before the snow came? What a sad sight...
So glad you made it home safely. I can hardly believe you got a snowstorm in May -- poor lilac.
Oh my--I can't believe it! But I do recall being in Yellowstone Park on on May 13, and snow was everywhere! I'm curious as to how that lilac bush is going to fare.
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