Round about four o'clock this afternoon, sitting taking notes in the Huntington Library, I thought - this is crazy! It's a beautiful day out there! The Rose Garden should be in full bloom. Which it was - overwhelmingly so. I don't have a particularly good sense of smell (apart from jasmine - happily; bad things, and olefactory hallucinations of fire), but even I was knocked back by rose scents. And they went on, and on ...
although I always especially enjoy the adjoining herb and vegetable garden (cabbages look very good, with large dark curly leaves, as a backdrop to roses). Today, the stand-out plants were the blooming fennel -
and then, in the center, this blue jay flew in. I promise you he's not stuffed.
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