June 02, 2010
Lilac Lamentation
The upside of being one of the last places in Canada to have lilacs flower is that we get extra long to look forward to it. If we go anywhere before lilac season, we get a double lilac season!
And the upside of living where we do in Thunder Bay is that there is a big-city owned bank of steep land not 50 m from the house, that is covered in lilac bushes. Leading to fun adventures up crumbling concrete stairs, clippers (and stuffy moon) in hand.
This bucket? Filled FIVE times! It was a great year for lilacs.
We have two small lilac lovers in this family. Sebastien refers to them, endearingly, as "flowering lilacs."
Felix points to them and yells "lila! lila!", and now that the lilacs are pretty much done (hence the lamentation), he seems to have adopted that particular word for anything he really, really wants. Which is usually something sharp.
We had enough lilacs to go around - there was no need to squabble over them, and I could afford to hand Felix a stem each time he squawked "Lila!!!!!"
Sebastien will probably remember mostly that he fell down the steep bank while we went to get lilacs, but that he didn't fall very far, and that he landed in a lilac bush, and that, um, maybe his Mama couldn't help laughing at the sight of him upside down in a lilac bush, clutching his stuffy moon. Not his clippers.
Now, we wait for strawberries.
Posted by Marlene at June 2, 2010 02:35 PM