Leaf Life


Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most.
It is truly a beautiful spring around here. Too bad it seems to be making everybody completely miserable.

John is upstairs sneezing great, booming, colossal sneezes. Just about everyone I know has been affected this year, regardless of what their allergy profile has been in years past. The human population is suffering mightily. Yet I turn my reddened, bleary eyes to the back porch and see my migratory geraniums settling happily into their summer home, herbs variously stretching for the sun or tumbling out of their tub, and John's tomatoes and peppers which practically grow as you are looking at them. Turning to the front of the house, the pink azaleas are in full flower and the white ones are revving their engines. More geraniums are extending stiff, woody stems which will soon be tipped with colorful blooms, and the hostas dance happily in the breeze.

So why must the plants' happiness cause so much malaise in humans? I do not know - I just hope for rain to rinse some of the pollen from the air and assuage my irritation with the sight of happy plant life.
Posted: Monday - May 16, 2005 at 08:26 AM         | |

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