FLEETING

Every year it’s the same and yet I still boggle at how the time goes. It’s nearly the end of May. The lilacs are in full bloom but soon they’ll be over…the lupines are on the way now, and the roses. We have tiny, hard, green cherries on the tree but I can’t decide whether it’s worth it to put net on, since we’ll be gone all of July and that’s when they’ll be ripe. Might as well feast the birds one year, eh? The honeysuckles are just starting as well and my clematis is vining its way up the...