A young Apollo, golden haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared/ For the long littleness of life.
Frances Macdonald Cornford wrote that about Rupert Brooke. But it also applies to the multi-colored freesia celebrating Spring in my back yard. Live fast and die young. The different colors that make this such a lovely picture appear because part of the bloom is already fading to indigo as it dies. I'm glad I caught it's brief, beautiful show.
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A beautiful, poignant picture. The scent must be something else.
It must be incredible gardening there ... I visited a friend in San Diego a few months' ago and it was as if I was on another planet.
I have the same problem as you do with seeds ...
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