It's been kind of off and on overcast these past few days and I haven't seen a lot of bees around (although they were around early in the month). Well, we will see and if there is little fruit, we will have to sit around in August and think about the glorious blooming season we had, instead of the luscious fruit that we will not have.
Not only are all the fruit trees blooming simultaneously, but so are all the tulips: the earlies, the mid-season, and the lates are all blooming right now, which makes for a nice addition to the fruit bloom. And there are blue forget-me-nots everywhere, and lunaria (the purple flowers in the center of the picture), and the elder berry flowers at the back. All the green in the foreground is columbine (blue, blue-violet, mostly, but with some pink) and they will be blooming too within a few weeks. We are overwhelmed with the sights out of the window. What good fortune to live amongst all this beauty.
On other news fronts, someone has come along and (rudely?) ripped both previous signs off the drenched couch and its ever-more-soggy companion love seat. It makes it seem as if this furniture couple has now come to claim residence on the roadside easement. Nobody is going to take it home as a new possession, nobody is going to reclaim it as an old possession. If we ever get bus service, the powers that be could make that corner a bus stop and we would all have someplace to sit while waiting to catch the bus.
