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Lilacs and Ducklings
I turned in my dissertation on the 17th. I turned in my final essay last Wednesday. So while I am not quite free as a bird -- I still have classes and tutorial readings, of course, and later there will be exams -- I am not nearly so stressed as I have been most of the year. Also, my sister is visiting, and we've been going to Halfcut and plays and things for the last few days of the On the Rocks festival.
The days have been gorgeous, too -- today is chilly, but I will forgive it. The weather is always a bit changeable at this time of year. Spring here seems almost as long as winter, brimming up in fits and starts in late February then dipping and wandering up and up until we pass the equinox, and the weather begins a slow but steadier warming turn. Right now we're entering yet another phase of blossoming. In our scruffy little garden this means another flush of daisies, along with phlox and something thick little bell-shaped things that may or may not be some sort of bluebell. Elsewhere, lilacs have started blooming, joining azaleas and violets and big red tulips, and several other garden flowers I can't identify. Along the burn, the trees have all turned white with blossoms and are dropping petals everwhere. Yesterday morning I saw a pair of ducklings nestling under their mother, the first I've seen all year.
On which note, you should all check out this comic, which is the sweetest thing I've read in a long while.
The days have been gorgeous, too -- today is chilly, but I will forgive it. The weather is always a bit changeable at this time of year. Spring here seems almost as long as winter, brimming up in fits and starts in late February then dipping and wandering up and up until we pass the equinox, and the weather begins a slow but steadier warming turn. Right now we're entering yet another phase of blossoming. In our scruffy little garden this means another flush of daisies, along with phlox and something thick little bell-shaped things that may or may not be some sort of bluebell. Elsewhere, lilacs have started blooming, joining azaleas and violets and big red tulips, and several other garden flowers I can't identify. Along the burn, the trees have all turned white with blossoms and are dropping petals everwhere. Yesterday morning I saw a pair of ducklings nestling under their mother, the first I've seen all year.
On which note, you should all check out this comic, which is the sweetest thing I've read in a long while.