Summer Beauty

To balance the creepy caterpiller post, I offer one of my favourite summer creations: lilacs. Each evening I take a walk and pass a large hedge of purple lilacs on the way. I love them. It has to be the purple ones though cause the white ones just aren't right somehow. I love the scent they put in the air and it hangs there for you to walk through unawares. Fake and perfumey lilac is horrid but the true stuff is wonderful. I would choose lilacs as a wedding flower - big, voluminous bunches of them! - but that would mean I would have to get married in the spring and I don't want that. So lilacs will remain for evening strolls and happy smells only (of course if some nice man wants to hand me a bunch someday, who am I to refuse?)