Earth Day

On this Earth Day 2025, I find myself rather well off despite all of the administration's evil machinations.  The courts are pushing back on Trump and Doge.  Thank you, ACLU and others.  Glad to learn that Harvard and many other Universities are standing up to TCF.  

The freezing-rain-trying-to-turn-into-snow managed to scare us off from the "No Kings" march on Saturday.  Instead, we had Greek takeout for lunch with friends.  Easter was another Greek feast with Cousin Katia and Blake.  Not surprisingly, we had leftover Greek last night.   

Nature's Notebook continues on schedule.  For the moment Doge's efficiency Gestapo haven't found their funding stream.  Things are popping despite a couple chilly nights.  Daytime temps are heading back into the 80's.  With Saturday's 0.4" of precipitation, we expect even more rapid changes.  The big surprise for us this week was the foot-tall Asclepius speciosa, which has exploded out of the ground in the past two weeks.  

On the way out of the Botanic Garden, we took the usual shortcut through the Japanese Garden.  Peonies and Viburnum were blooming promiscuously.  In the planters along the Festival Green, we found Spanish bluebells, Hyacinthoides hispanica.

Now if we can just keep TCF from butchering the Endangered Species Act and gutting our National Monuments, things can calm down, at least locally.  Don't ask me about the stock market, tariffs, and the economic outlook.