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Lilacs are my all time favorite flower in the whole wide world!!!
Ours bloomed a month ago; they’re long gone by now. But I agree, they’re the best.
I think I accidentally voted for Nader
Lavender is, by far, the superior purple flower.
Slow news day.
Lilacs are terrific, if you’re eighty.
I PROTEST this poll! I demand a REAL choice! Fight the power! Fight the power!
I’ll allow it!
Fnarf, you’re far more crotchety than most 80-year-olds I know, so they should be right up your alley.
I don’t keep flowers up my alley, Fift. It just smells like I do.
@ 5280, what are you talking about? They’re past their peak but they’re still in bloom.
Hydrangea.
And there’s a classic example of a microclimate for you, Matt. Thanks to all the asphalt and steel, Capitol Hill is typically 5-10 degrees warmer than the surrounding burbs. Spring gets here sooner. They really are all gone in my neighborhood.
HA! “Indeed!” is owning, bitches.
The only bad thing about them is that they don’t bloom for longer
Lupins!
@17: It’s not lupins.
Lilacs are a big deal in Spokane. Shouldn’t that make them contemptible by association?
I love lilacs. The back part of the backyard at The Home Place back in Iowa (you know – right before the woods start?) has a row of lilacs, and their scent makes me want to move back home. That’s why I’m careful never to go there in the Spring,
And lilacs are the flower of May crownings! C’mon, everybody, sing it with me…
Mary we crown you with roses today,
Queen of the roses, and queen of the May
(forgive me for getting all Catholic on you. I just spent ten hours at The Hippy Homeshow, being all gracious. That takes a toll as you get older)
Matt and 5280–what the fuck? I haven’t seen any lilacs, I figured I left such things behind in MN along with standing bodies of water and rivers that actually contain water.
You don’t get out much, do you, Cat? (Three kids? I can understand that.) Yeah, there are lilacs here in the spring. We’ve even got rivers and standing water, too, but you’ve got to get into the mountains to see the best ones.
OK, I’m a believer. I got lost coming back from the airport, meandered through Confluence Park and saw a river with water (tiny rapids, even), and ended up in Cherry Creek (when I get lost, I really get lost) where I saw a fencerow of full bloom lilacs. Would have been a trifecta if I’d come across a real lake–resevoirs don’t count.
Confluence Park? That would be the mighty South Fork of the South Platte. Big-assed river until they dammed it back in the ’60s (that’s Cherry Creek Reservoir now).
Yeah, I was surprised to find that the little stream that I go past every day after work is another fork of the mighty Platte, post Chatfield. And why in the hell do people get to boat and swim in my drinking water source?
They piss in it too.;-)
oh, you fucker. Why did you have to tell me that?!?
Boil order in effect at my house…
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