Saturday, April 30, 2011 
'Kiku-shidare-zakura' (chrysanthemum weeping cherry), April 29th
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... muscari blues Tuesday...
...wet (again) Wednesday...
... sunny-in-the-evening Thursday...
... & Friday...well, that photo is yet to be taken but I may go sakura hunting.
Have a great weekend & happy gardening, everyone!
Photos (top to bottom): Ribes sanguineum (Red-flowering Currant); Muscari (Grape Hyacinth); pink tulip and Pieris japonica; Doronicum orientale (Leopard's Bane); cherry blossoms (cultivar to be identified)
Monday, April 25, 2011 Pink, brown, green & glorious evening light -- discovered in a clearing while I was carrying garden trimmings & my dear departed Japanese maple tree stump to the ravine:
Rubus spectabilis (Salmonberry)
XXXVI
Frequently the woods are pink,
Frequently are brown;
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
Oft a head is crested
I was wont to see --
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be.
And the earth, they tell me,
On its axis turned, --
Wonderful rotation
By but twelve performed!
Emily Dickinson (1830-86). Complete Poems.
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