Day 115 - a Year by the Sea

April 25, 2007 by OrientSee.

This is full and positive proof that spring has arrived. Although our magnolia isn’t on Commonwealth Ave., it does stand in our yard and delights us and everyone who looks up on their way to the station. The contrast with the thickets surrounding the marsh couldn’t be more striking. Some sort of thorn bush attacked me this morning and tried to drain the blood out of one of my fingers. It wasn’t pretty to look at and the amount of blood was seriously offputting. This thorn psycho actually laughed after I suffered its unprovoked attack (well, not really but it was one mean plant). The other thing about wild plants is that they are wild. That means growing up, under, around, over and through other growing things. Push and shove. Whatever it takes. The resulting plant chaos is overwhelming to anything larger than a sparrow. A bulldozer would have its work cut out for it. So our calm cultivated magnolia is enjoyable while those marshy thickets are kind of scary.

Ciao!

-Jorge (who will be gone for a few days)

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