The little purple flowers are myrtle or periwinkle--they are blooming here too! But not dogwoods yet. How pretty that dogwood flower is--and that's a great image, the snow with the dogwoods--that's a trope in Japanese poetry, so-called "elegant confusion" ("is that snow, or is it scattering blossoms that I see?")--how beautiful that would be in real life!
So you have a river in your backyard! Lucky! (But I am lucky too since we have a swamp behind our house.) And that's quite a hole Benjamin dug--I mean, it's about as tall as he is. He looks very cute in that first photo--reminds me of my one of my nephews, my sister's son.
And yes, those are azaleas. Do hummingbirds come to them?
But that dogwood flower--that's the one I love best.
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Date: 2009-04-20 09:36 pm (UTC)The little purple flowers are myrtle or periwinkle--they are blooming here too! But not dogwoods yet. How pretty that dogwood flower is--and that's a great image, the snow with the dogwoods--that's a trope in Japanese poetry, so-called "elegant confusion" ("is that snow, or is it scattering blossoms that I see?")--how beautiful that would be in real life!
So you have a river in your backyard! Lucky! (But I am lucky too since we have a swamp behind our house.) And that's quite a hole Benjamin dug--I mean, it's about as tall as he is. He looks very cute in that first photo--reminds me of my one of my nephews, my sister's son.
And yes, those are azaleas. Do hummingbirds come to them?
But that dogwood flower--that's the one I love best.