Pro Choice

On my drive to the vet's yesterday morning with a very ill cat, I for once ejected the tape. My driving tapes are all stained glass bluegrass (WAMU, taped by a friend who lives in D.C. ~~ ironic it's impossible to get bluegrass on the radio here) and the first song that came up was Angle Band. Not wanting to think about anyone's eternal home at that moment, I turned the tape off. So I heard the gardening guy, next state over, being asked why the caller's grandmother's iris will no longer bloom. He was advised to lift all the rhizomes, cut out the hearts, and leave only the new shoots, and then to re-dig the whole bed, mixing in all kinds of good flower vitamins, then re-lay the young sprouts, and just barely cover them with soil. Iris like light. And while he was about it, he was told to check his shade. It was likely there was more of it now than when the original bed was planted.

Clearly one has a choice: flowers or trees.

Sunlight or shade. Both are lovely. Both desired.

But you can't have both in the same space.

Choose.


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