5/23/12 RAIN, OLD-FASHIONED SHRUBS, AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

LOTS OF RAIN PREDICTED

OLD-FASHIONED WIEGELA

SNOWBALL VIBURNUM...

...VIBURNUM MACROCEPHALUMN

Wednesday, 7:45 AM.  61 degrees, wind NNE, light.  The sky is overcast but trying to clear presently.  The barometer however predicts rain, and the  forecast is for heavy  rain over the next several days.  We shall see.  In the meantime I mowed half the lawn last evening and will mow the rest this morning, just in case.
        The snowball Viburnum (Viburnum macrocephalum) in Cindy’s yard up the street is truly spectacular in bloom.  It is fully twelve feet high and as wide, and covered with baseball sized blossoms.  Her Wiegela hedge has been blooming for a week and is still beautiful.  These two plants are mainstays of old-fashioned landscapes.
    The blueberries are in bloom, both wild and domesticated, and the blueberry farm fields are covered with white blossoms (and bees).
        The Occupy Chicago demonstrations have been near riots, but well orchestrated.  I think I now know what a community organizer actually does.