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A WEEK IN PHOTOS
The Week We Went To Watch Strictly
Spring Is Sprung
While this first week in April raced headlong towards a glittery, dramatic, sequinned event, signs of Spring popped up all around us. We discovered that March was the sunniest it has been for 60 years. April so far has also been sunny and — more to the point — warmer.
It’s good to see the orange, yellow, and white of various types of daffodils lining the roads like spectators waiting for a parade to go by.
Back home, the Solomon’s Seal is pushing up through the ground all over the place.
Reams have been written about how to care for this plant, but I’m inclined to think that if it likes a particular spot, it will grow, and if it doesn’t, it won’t. It has been on the Earth for centuries, so it knows how to weather most things. Ours has been through a few decades of major building renovations and had vehicles, cement mixers, and scaffolding poles planted on top of it; none of which has prevented…
