By E. E. Cummings
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it’s
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
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Have a lovely Thankful Thursday….
Duomo di Bressanone, Italy…
St. Albans, Vermont…
National University of Mexico with the springtime bloom of jacaranda trees…
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Jacaranda and wisteria…my favorites. Only in warm climates [sigh!].
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My wisteria has not bloomed yet. Don’t know if I can grow jacarandas.
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Nope, just looked and 8b gets too cold.
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I know we can grow wisteria here in 6b. My old neighbor had a beautiful one trained into a tree form. It would perfume the entire neighborhood!
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Apparently there are varieties that only grow in warm climates, but others that grow even in zone 4!
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The area I lived in while residing in Los Angeles has jacaranda trees in yards and lining the streets. They are beautiful but also a mess to clean up.
If you look at photos of Mexico City at this time of year, you’ll see the roads and walks full of tree debris….
It’s a tremendous shame that Mexico is so dangerous (basically a narco-state). It’s such a beautiful place. One of my grandnieces lived outside Mexico City a couple of years ago. She loved it but at the end of the six-month term when non-permanent residents have to return to their home countries, she decided not to go back to Mexico and moved to Toronto instead (also a beautiful city).
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My former employer has an office in Mexico City. The manager there had to hire someone to watch his car all day or it would be stolen.
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SHOCKING REPORT: DOJ Embedded an FBI Informant Inside the DEFENSE TEAM of Non-Violent Jan 6 Prisoner and Former US Marine Zachary Rehl
By Patty McMurray Mar. 22, 2023 7:13 pm
SHOCK: The FBI is paying J6 defense witnesses to provide the defense’s trial strategy to Biden’s DOJ. The government has paid informants inside the trial feeding information to the FBI and DOJ. This is beyond outrageous. There is no justice in America today.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/shocking-report-doj-embedded-an-fbi-informant-inside-the-defense-team-of-non-violent-jan-6-prisoner-and-former-us-marine-zachary-rehl/
and….
A ‘Spill’ of FBI Secrets
By Julie Kelly – March 14, 2023
Americans will hold accountable those responsible for the accelerating degradation of the U.S. justice system as the government’s J6 narrative collapses and their wrongdoing becomes apparent.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/14/a-spill-of-fbi-secrets/
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What is the explanation that makes all this legal/constitutional????
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The lefties don’t have an explanation. Un-Constitutional? Means nothing to them. And our side seems to be full of wimpy and corrupt people who don’t fight for justice except in front of the cameras. So the Dims just get away with it.
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About St Albans, VT – the northernmost site of a Civil War battle. Nine Confederates rode the train down from Montreal, CA and stuck up the town.
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Thanks, Geoff! Didn’t know that.
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Mornin’ Wee! Something to look forward to.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Mornin’ All. 21* and sunny here, clear blue sky. It actually got up to about 70* on my patio yesterday afternoon. Of course, that was because the sun was shining on the patio. My friend said yesterday that this was a really bad winter here, worst she has seen in a long time. If that is true, and I am sure it is, then I have it made. I could handle this winter.
Well, hope you all have a nice spring day.
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It helps when someone gives you a long term perspective like that.
You have handled the change well.
Hoping you’ll find housing nearer your family with a washer and dryer!
Cheers!
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Thank you. I only have 4 more months until my lease is up. I just hope I can match that timing up with another apt.
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This is happening in my state! The wicked witch Whitmer strikes again.
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Such a fun e e cummings bit about spring, Stella!
My limited exposure to cummings’ work usually includes one or both of these unspoken reactions, “Huh???” or “How’d he do that?”
Good fun with words and phrases that do, in fact, paint a picture we recognize!
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Glad you like it! I particularly like that picture of the lady bugs too.
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Yes! The girls sat very nicely for their photo.
There was something fun and colorful (and thankfully short-lived) that we experienced in Minnesota.
The west exterior wall of our house would get sunshine-warm some time in April, when air temps were still pretty chilly sometimes.
I don’t know if they were officially lady-bugs, but if they weren’t, they looked exactly like them. During those air-cool but siding-warm days of early spring, there would be hundreds (or thousands) of them enjoying that warm sunshine on the western wall in the afternoon.
Their presence there never lasted more than a day or few…was just interesting to note how even the insect world just finds available sunshine wherever they can when things are still chilly.
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Exquisite photography!
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Have you seen much about this in major media?
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Great! That is what they want to avoid here.
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This is so sweet. There actually ARE some good people in this world.
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Yes, there are!
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