Mark & Juanita wrote:

Thanks, that's pretty nice. It's been too dry here this year for the
desert flowers. The impale-you-verde are blooming, so the desert has a
nice yellow splash of color. Your's is nicer though.

I think there are probably places of seasonal beauty everywhere. Ewing
Park is a legacy from an 1880's Des Moines women's gardening society
whose members seem to have liked lilacs - there are supposed to be more
than 1400 varieties of 'em in the park, with a scattering of flowering
crabapple trees for punctuation, and a surround of (mostly) oak and
softwoods to serve as a backdrop. For about ten days each spring the
park explodes with blossoms and the aroma of lilacs.

During the rest of the warm season it's just a big grassy area with a
lot of bushes - and enough shade to make it a perfect place for
city-dwellers to spread an old blanket and enjoy a quiet picnic.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/