"A little madness in the Spring"

Spring is not quite here yet, not even in Southern California, but we are alreading thinking about it.  These are "Mary Rose," "Sharifa Asma," and "Commandant Beaurepaire". I have hankered after "Mary Rose" unreservedly for some years, dreaming of its lovely rose-pink petals and "delicious fragrance of Old Rose character, with a hint of honey and almond blossom".  "Sharifa Asma" was I confess a rather impulsive buy, as the photos are gorgeous but it can be rather sensitive, I hear -- we'll see. I was utterly charmed by some photographs I saw recently of "Commandant Beaurepaire," an old Bourbon rose -- I had rather wanted "Rosa mundi" but could not find it to hand, and I had left it late in the season to order -- but I have great hopes.

I do not expect particularly much from this,

which I bought at Tuesday Morning yesterday for $6.99 (marked down from $14).  It is Wisdom Yarns' Marathon Socks Seattle, in "Seattle Fifth". Not my usual colors, but it seemed to suit my mood of hopeful expectancy, in this burst of spring-like weather.

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown --
Who ponders this tremendous scene --
This whole Experiment of Green --
As if it were his own!

Emily Dickinson

Comments

[marylou]

We have had such cold weather with little or no snow cover that I fear even for my Canadian Explorere roses.