Purple

One of the things I love about spring is the shades of purple. Purple isn't really a favorite color but it's taken me until this year to realize that I generally don't like our attempts to duplicate nature. I see the first violets scattered in the yards as I'm walking Dogzilla and know that spring is on the way. There's a variety of shades, but my favorites are the violets that are a deep almost velvety purple. This year, behind where the old barn stood, there was a patch of white violets. I call them "white", but they were actually deep purple centers with the palest of lavender petals. I don't even know the names of many of the flowers out there. There are tiny, delicate star-shaped flowers with pale petals scattered among the violets. There is some kind of weed that has these outrageous rather heliotrope petals. There is something else that has deep periwinkle flowers. There are lilacs yet to come. The deep blue purple of violets just can't be duplicated. People have tried for centuries, but I just don't think it can be done.

Today was a gorgeous day. The kind I wish we could have all year round. A gentle breeze, lots of sunshine and temperatures in the mid-sixties. It was a good day to trot Dogzilla all over the yard, although the pollen forced me into taking a nice Benadryl caplet. Those apple blossoms are lovely and look like falling snow, but they're also putting loads of pollen into the air!

I've found some new music. I don't do that often, but I happened across "Austin City Limits" last night when Kathleen Edwards was on. I am probably hopelessly behind the curve on this, but she's an alt country folk artist. I think anyone that likes John Prine would like her music. Songs I like: "In State", "Back to Me" and "Six O'Clock News". I've decided I want to own her albums "Failer" and "Back to Me".