The gardeners on the university campus have done a really good job, planting evergreen shrubs which are really cheering in the midst of winter. One of these, Mahonia japonica, is particularly noticeable just now with its holly-like leaves and fragrant, yellow flower spikes. The individual flower buds are just opening and I noticed two female House Sparrows trying to get at them by clinging acrobatically to the top of one of the plants.
Friday, January 14, 2005
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
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