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Spring is Swinging, and Springing!

PupperJack Gets Photo-Weary

‘Jus’ swingin’ through the blossoms’ — painting by Susan Alison

Around the neighbourhood, despite a viciously cold snap a couple of weeks ago, plants are flowering in gay abandon.

Above left is a mock orange — it has an amazing fragrance and attracts a lot of wildlife, including bees and butterflies. It is, apparently, poisonous to cats, though.

Above right is a ceanothus — this doesn’t have an amazing fragrance but comes in many shades of blue — a colour of flower I find particularly appealing.

Camellias, clematis and cherry blossoms are bursting forth in the gardens that we pass on our walks.

They are producing masses of blossom, which I appreciate, even if PupperJack still only cares about picking up the peemail messages left around the place by other doggos.

The wildflowers are at it, too — the ivy-leaved toadflax — above — is one of my favourite plants of all time and makes the most of any crevice it can find.

It’s not a native species to the UK but was introduced to England from Italy via some seeds that hitched a ride on some marble sculptures that were brought over to Oxford in the seventeenth century.

Its leaves are edible and taste somewhat of watercress, not that I know that from my own experience.

Cymbalaria muralis has many common names — it’s been around a long time! They include Oxford ivy, mother of thousands, pennywort, wandering sailer, Kenilworth ivy, coliseum ivy and rabbit-flower.

The blue one in the middle is the perennial cornflower, the white is spirea and the yellow, mahonia.

Some daffodils bounce up from their bulbs in order to leap out and startle you.

Some blossoms just want swinging through to be fully appreciated.

Some blossoms are exhausted from all the Springing and just want to be left to snooze.

“Really? Can there be no peace for the pooch?”

Dennett started the Photo-a-Day Challenge to help combat the pandemic blues. I’m delighted that she is continuing to do so despite Medium’s sabotage of our picture liberties.

Other practitioners who share their week with us:

Erika Burkhalter, Anne Bonfert, Tracy Aston, Lisa Bolin, Juan O. Aguilera, David Wade Chambers, June Nguyen, Mia Verita, LensAfield, Barbara Radisavljevic, Diana Lotti, Barb Dalton, Kim Zuch, K. Barrett, Penny Grubb, Ellie Jacobson, Shruthi Sundaram, Jillian Amatt — Artistic Voyages, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles

(If your name should, or should not, be on this list, please let me know.)

‘Frondescence’ and ‘Meezers’ and Libraries

Plus Siamese cats, and the Great — the One-and-Only — PupperJack — Jumps into Action Again

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The Sun Came Out and Brought Other Hot Colours With It

PupperJack gets barky

medium.com

Flowering Red Currant with an Unfortunate Cat Connection

An asparagus that thinks it’s a grape

medium.com

Join Medium with my referral link — Susan Alison

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