As July rolls on the fields of the Taconics have a white cast because of so much Queen Anne's Lace. If you look closely at this picture you will see on tiny black flower right in the center? Why does this occur, you ask, pleading for knowledge. I don't know. I'll Google it and get back to you.
A lot of you (actually not a single human being on the face of the earth) have asked me why the season Day Lily has gone on so long. "Dan," you ask, " why had the season Day Lily has gone on so long?" July is actually, in my sense, a time of stability when compared to May and June. It really is a time of invertebrates, of insect such as wasps that build and flies that, ah, fly. But look, do you se that golden color here and there?
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Hello, Dr. Franck,
Did you happen to teach Botany at UW-Madison in the 1970s by any chance?
Well, um, whether or not you did, here's my most recent favorite botanical type poem, which you might like, even though it's out of season.... I have an extra fondness for it because this compassionate poem was written by a right bastard, and I am always encouraged by such seeming inconsistencies.
The Trees
By Philip Larkin
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
So glad you find it the "lacy season". Here in TN the roadside is almost like snow. If you don't count the green of kudzu that about chokes out the Queen Anne's lace and everything else.
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