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<title>Violets</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/28/violets</biblioid>
<volumenum>6</volumenum>
<issuenum>22</issuenum>
<pubdate>2003-05-28</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2005-09-11 10:27:02 -0400 (Sun, 11 Sep 2005) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2003</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>The violets are blooming again.</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Flowers"/>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Photography"/>
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<epigraph>
<attribution>Blake</attribution>
<para xml:id="p1"><indexterm>
	<primary>Blake</primary>
      </indexterm>To
create a little flower is the labour of ages.</para>
</epigraph>

<para xml:id="p2">Apropos of nothing, it has rained for days (and nights and days
again). Ironically, when we transfered all
<link xlink:href="../10/plants">those plants</link> to pots on the deck, I was
worried that they'd bake before I could give them adequate water.
</para>

<para xml:id="p3">On the plus side, some more violets (I think they're violets;
gardeners, feel free to correct me<footnote>
      <para xml:id="p4">Pansies have been suggested,
but so far I think the jury is still out.</para>
    </footnote>.)
have blossomed. Gorgeous purple
and yellow delights!</para>

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<para xml:id="p5">They grow wild in the garden, which by some definitions
makes them weeds, I suppose. I'm not complaining. I don't complain
about the dandelions either, though.</para>

<para xml:id="p6">Deb's<indexterm>
      <primary>Walsh</primary>
      <secondary>Deborah</secondary>
    </indexterm>
pots are gorgeous, and for the moment free of weeds, but
the snaps will have to wait until they've dried out a bit. The poor
things are looking a bit drowned today. For now, you'll have to be
content with another violet.</para>

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<para xml:id="p7">The azaleas and the cherry tree are in blossom as well. Spring has
finally come to New England. None too soon either, in my book.</para>

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