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[radfrac_archive_full]

The plum trees came into bloom while I was away.*

Did the cherry trees seem to bloom in more distinct waves this year -- pink, then white, then puffball pink? It seemed like it to me -- maybe it's just that Cook Street Village blooms differently than James Bay, where I remember streets of pale and bright mixed, leading to various vague internal ramblings about aesthetic juxtapositions during various vague external ramblings through its streets.

The plum trees* are also pink (or white) but a much more satisfying pink, darker and more lipsticky without ever being in danger of becoming red.

There is a strange message on our voicemail from a hotel in New Brunswick. inlandsea?

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*I think they are plum trees. They look like cherry trees, only not. Actually, I have no idea what they are, but for the purposes of making me seem like an observant fan of the natural, let's assume plum trees. Thank you.

Comments

[radiantfracture]

Thank you! When I was young I saw nature as more or less an undifferentiated mass of green, and I have been trying to learn to be particular ever since. I feel inadequate as to my knowledge of genera and species.

Which is not to say that taxonomy is the best way to understand things, but it gives the option of specifying.

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[xcaro.livejournal.com]

But it is a fun way to know things, especially for us OCD types in the audience. I loved horticulture school - wish I could have done it for four years rather than just one!

Mass of green - nothing wrong with that either of course, but I don't know, I guess I like knowing what stuff is. I like looking clever, which will be no surprise to anyone I'm sure.