It's the first of May, so if you celebrate, happy May Day. It's also nice to see that something's pretty much right on schedule--
I've always kinda sorta thought of May as the gateway to summer, which it really is here in the UP. We start to get warmer temperatures (and, in all honesty, a chance of snow, as well) and all manner of spring flowers start popping out.
Including, of course, the best smelling things on the planet, the subject of an almost insane annual frenzy of sniffing each and every year, lilacs.
If you've been reading these for any amount of time you know I'm, uhm, a bit obsessive about lilacs, posting multiple picture of the buds as they're growing and then out, and stopping every time I see a bush that's bloomed, sticking my nose into the tree and inhaling with as much gusto as my lungs provide. I have no idea why; over the years, that's just how it turned out.
So, as we head through May (and, perhaps, even into June) don't me surprised if you may notice reference or 20 to the trees I pass, the buds that pop out, and the smell that they provide. I'm sorry; apparently, I just can't help myself. So in advance, just let me say...
Hi, I'm Jim, and I'm a lilac-holic.
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