Flowers and other "stuff"

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The flowers are bursting open one after another leaving none to be open when everyone is here for the wedding. This is the first of the azaleas and as they get the sun as it comes over the house they open in order from front to back. Eventually they will all be open and then start fading in the same order. Everyone on the other side of the street has had theirs open for about a week now.

I think there are nine bushes so there is still a little ways to go.

This is across the street from my house and they have looked like this for about a week now. Sun all day long.

Then I have the mutant hostas. Last summer I bought a couple new hostas as a couple of the ones I have had for a long time died for some reason. I decided to get different ones and eventually have a lot of different kinds. So I bought three of the same kind (but different from what I had) and put two next to each other and the third one about three feet away from those two. I think I have some kind of mutant hosta. I put the little pot of petunias in front of both of them so you could see the difference in size. What is that about? It feels like "Little Shop of Horrors" and I am wondering what the end of the summer will bring.

In the meantime the columbine are open and looking beautiful. I think these are the ones that Karen gave to me that just didn't seem to come up for a couple of years and now are looking wonderful. I don't remember buying any so I don't know where else they would come from. It doesn't matter as they are really pretty.

For all of you who have never understood why we have never locked our door, you don't have to worry any more. After 20 years of living in the big bad Bronx and not locking my front door because the lock wouldn't work, I have brand spanking new locks and keys. Now we have to remember to bring our keys with us when we go out.

Gas. What else are we all talking about? I drove to Virginia a week ago. Regular gas at the Sunoco station around the corner from my house was $3.93/gallon. It seems like I was just choking because it had gone over $3/gallon. On the Jersey Turpike all the way down it was $3.43/gallon and in VA it was $3.63/gallon. Lots of very long lines on the turnpike at the gas stations. A couple of weeks ago I was thinking ---when it costs over $50 to fill my tank I'm going to----what? Stop driving? I doubt it.

Gas prices. Another choke is going to the grocery store. Then you pick up and read the papers about Myanmar and China. It is a crazy, crazy world we are living in.