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| LONG ISLAND IN THE MIST |
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| CHOKECHERRY BLOSOMS |
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| WOODLAND CHOKECHERRY |
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| PUSSYTOES |
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| A CLOUD OF PEAR BLOSSOMS |
Wednesday, 8:00 AM. 57 degrees, wind W, calm. The sky is overcast with heavy dark rain clouds, the humidity is high and the barometer predicts rain. The robins were singing arias about worms this morning.
The native cherries are blooming. The one pictured is chokecherry,
Prunus virginiana. It bears its flowers and fruit in heads at the end of a stem. The fruit is bitter and inedible except when dead ripe, and the leaves and bark are bitter tasting as well. It is extremely hardy, and widespread throughout North America.. It has smooth, gray bark, which separates it from most of the other cherries, which mostly have shiny, dotted bark on young trees and branches. The edible pears,
Pyrus communis, are blooming, the white flowers in clusters. Pussytoes, members of the species
Antennaria, are blooming now in lawns and along roadsides.
The embarrassing failures of the Obama administration are seemingly endless; one of the top administrators of ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Administration, James Woolsey, has just pleaded guilty to embezzling, along with his son and other ICE employees, over a half million dollars in travel funds. The scam was so transparent and amateurish that it leads one to believe that it had to be overlooked by others in authority, and is perhaps a widespread practice throughout the government. Keep in mind that this is the largest federal investigative agency after the FBI, and Woolsey is a former Acting Director.
Add this crooked, almost inane high level scheme to the stew pot of larceny that is the U.S. government under President Obama, and this administration is well on its way to surpassing that paragon of American corruption, the Grant administration. I fear America has become a kleptocracy.
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