Abundant. Everywhere. Never common. Hardy lilac bushes grow in yards, vacant lots and public places in my native Alberta and adopted Montana home. Well groomed or sprawling wildly, I wait for the white, lavender, deep plum and light heliotrope blossoms to open enough to fill rooms with their fragrance. I passed a row of carefully pruned lilacs with a profusion of blooms today. Lovely. But so are the not so well pruned bushes behind my rented house. Time for me to imitate T.S. Eliot's character: "Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room"
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T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962
Spring Lilacs and Sisters - some of my favorite things!!
ReplyDeleteThe sister in Alberta is also enjoying the fragrant blossoms, with a vase full in every room!
ReplyDeleteThe fond recollection surfaces of the long hedge of blooming lilacs along one complete edge of Grandma A's
garden at the old farm.