Spring II y’cumin’ in!

What a beautiful morning. About 80 when the dogs turned me out of the sack, and it’s still lovely and cool outside.

Arizona has two springs: one about March & April and another come September. Plants are reviving and springing back into bloom already, in anticipation of the second spring. We’ll have one or two more blasts of heat, and then it will be gorgeous for the rest of the fall and winter.

The Texas sage by the pool is in an ecstasy. So are the wild honeybees that feed on it.

This is the plant that used to arch over the water, which I love because when the helicopter bastards fly over while I’m in the pool, I can swim in underneath it so they can’t eyeball me. One of the workmen decided NOTHING would do but what it had to be cut back, though, so he hacked off the sprays that bent over the edge and sometimes dipped into the water.

Men. You simply can NOT make them listen to the female voice.

Oh well. It’ll grow back. It still makes a little bit of a grotto: very beautiful from the deep end.

Meanwhile, the orange-variety of yellowbell (I forget what the thing is called) is also blooming, which is kind of a surprise.

So it goes.

Two large projects came in the door yesterday — as usual, it never rains but it pours. One is due in seven days — 100 pages of academic Chinglish, fortunately on a pretty interesting topic. So there won’t be much time for blogging.

Forget me not!