conference vegetables

There was time, at today's lunchtime conference break, to go and see how spring is coming along in the Huntington's gardens - unsurprisingly beautiful, especially some beds of very pale yellow poppies.  A colleague and I went and crushed leaves of sage and thyme and geraniums in the herb garden and pretended for five minutes that all was well with the world, which it so very clearly isn't.  I so love how the Huntington appreciates the beauty of what one might conventionally think of as vegetables: the yellow and reddish stalks of the chard, and the very fat globes of artichokes.