narcissist.

Look at them....posing like that. It's all about them. "Take my picture, Jeff...look how pretty I am!" Narcissists.

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed,..."

- excerpt from Walt Whitman's "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun"

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Siberian Iris in bloom @ Glen Mar.

It's June! Where did May go to?

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lilacs.

Nothing, in my opinion, tops the smell of lilacs wafting through your home. Well...when they waft.

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"These I, Singing in Spring".

And twigs of maple, and a bunch of wild orange, and chestnut, And stems of currants, and plum-blows, and the aromatic cedar: These, I, compass'd around by a thick cloud of spirits, Wandering, point to, or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me, Indicating to each one what he shall have—giving something to each; But what I drew from the water by the pond-side, that I reserve, I will give of it—but only to them that love, as I my- self am capable of loving.

Excerpt from "These I, Singing in Spring", by Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1867)

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"away, boxelder!"

away, boxelder!

- you, annoying cockroach, you -

i'd step, but you stink

Here's a swarm from last year. I hate them.

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a springy 42 degrees...

The plants are getting antsy in Greendale, Wisconsin.

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