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| PATCH OF FALSE SOLOMON'S SEAL... |
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| ...IN FULL BLOOM |
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| BEGONIAS AND CLEMATIS FLOWERS BRIGHTEN THE BREAKFAST TABLE |
Tuesday, 800 AM. 54 degrees F, wind WNW, very light. There are a few high white clouds, the humidity is 75% and even though the barometer is trending down, it will be a nice day.
The false Solomon’s seal, Smilacina racemosa (in the Lily family) are in full bloom now, sometimes in great patches along the roadsides and in the woods. The several varieties of the true Solomon’s seal are in the same family, but in the genus Polygonatum. Their flowers are aligned along the underside of the stem rather than in a raceme at the end of the stem. The berries of the false are red when ripe, of the true, blue.
Today is the much awaited recall election day in Wisconsin. Republican Governor Scott Walker and his Lieutenant Governor are being challenged by Milwaukee Mayor Thomas Barrett and his running mate, after over 900,000 recall petition signatures were collected.
The election basically pits Republican economic reforms against big public unions and their supporters (Democrats and leftists). Wisconsin is being considered a bell-weather state for the fall Presidential election, and out-of-state money has poured into the election in unprecedented amounts on both sides. President Obama has, rather strangely, stayed out of the fray, evidently cautious of being too closely allied to a possible loosing cause. In any case, this exhausting and expensive (eighteen months and $17M) process will be all over by this evening. The result will determine the direction of the state and perhaps the nation for many years.
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