Friday: Honeysuckle (posted by email)

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[OT from cottage renovations]

honeysuckle can be as polymorphic as Poison Ivy or a Thneed.  like the former it comes as a shrub or a vine and seems to take no time at all to get out of control; like the latter we don't really need it. 

even though I have dug plenty (but not enough!) of it out of the Circle with a pickaxe, still it's difficult to completely harden one's heart to it, particularly when its scent carries on a soft summer evening's warm breeze. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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along Oak Street in Woodward Park

in the late afternoon sweetlight the form of its blossoms can be easy on the eyes if one takes but a moment to look. 

Lonicera