Last Minute Preparations

Congrats to those of you (pretty much everyone) who figured out that the dream about Richard Nixon in yesterday's post was mine. Yes, I really had that dream. It was many years ago -- probably when I was in my 20s -- and I remember how disturbing it was to wake up with the idea that not only was the man I believed to be my father not my father, but Tricky Dick was!

As Andrew said in the comments, the fact that the dream was about Nixon gave away the fact that it was mine. Today's students would be very unlikely to dream about him, I suspect. Trump, maybe, but not Nixon.

Anyway, I'm making last-minute preparations for my flight to Florida, so I'll leave you with some pictures of flowers from the garden. First, the honesty (above) is blooming quite well now.

I collected a clipping of this plant -- some type of lamium, related to a dead nettle -- while walking with Olga many years ago. I put it in the garden where it's been growing ever since. I think this is the first year I've seen it bloom.

And finally, these primroses are going gangbusters! I've photographed them before but they keep adding more and more blossoms. Pretty impressive!

I took all these pictures with my big camera. I think I'm going to try something new when I go to Florida. I'm not taking the camera, for a change. It's big and heavy and cumbersome, and because this is a short trip I'm going to try simply using my phone. Maybe I'll make a video each day or something like that. Stay tuned!