"A garden can be created and a house can be turned upside down but the setting is made by nature, and though man may have the temerity to intervene here and there, the matter is really out of his hands."
- Emma-Louise O'Reilly.
Okay, now for a bit of a change of pace from U.S. tax returns....
My Mom and I wanted to go to Butchart Gardens for Mother's Day but it was so rainy that we postponed our trip. Yesterday, we finally got to go. What a great time we had. Fortunately for us, this spring has been so cold that the tulips are very late and so, as hasn't happened for many years, the tulips will still be in their prime this weekend! The sunken garden is absolutely spectacular.
If you haven't been to Butchart Gardens in a while, this long weekend is the perfect opportunity. The tulips will still be in their prime. If you will want reservations at the dining room, be sure to call ahead. They book up fast. You can even take your dog!
The blue poppies - for which the Butchart Gardens are famous - are just starting to bloom.
Anne Krause, my wonderful mom.
"Whenever I feel myself inferior to everything about me, threatened by my own mediocrity, frightened by the discovery that a muscle is losing its strength, a desire its power, or a pin the keen edge of its bite, I can still hold up my head and say to myself...
Let me not forget that I am the daughter of a woman who herself never ceased to flower, untiringly, during all her decades...."
- Colette.
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