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6/8/03 Brooklyn, NY Nothing gives

6/8/03 Brooklyn, NY

Nothing gives you a better crash course in Buddhist impermanence than springtime up in Columbia County, NY. The previous owner of our farm was Virginia Nelson, who had lived there since 1948, cultivating some of the most amazing flowers in the valley. But she was heavy into perennials, which make you pay for their eternal steadfastness by only blooming for about a week. The bearded irises (above) are some of the most beautiful plants a tyro like me has ever seen, but they already began to wither away today. I post these pictures just so there is at least one place where they can exist in semi-permanence.

Chopin by the rhododendrons, which are also, sadly, fading away after a fortnight of craziness