#Campanula 'Summertime Blues' #Bellflower

#Clematis 'Gillian Blades'

#TheDivineComedy #DanteAlighieri #JohnCiardi, translator Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed from the True Way into the Dark Wood of Error….

#Clematis crispa

Finished #Melvill #RodrigoFresán Another writer will come in my wake and say something in his writings (after adding a u to his surname and saying he envied and admired my writing) about how his mother is a fish. My father is a whale. And I am his Jonah.

#Rosa ‘Claire Austin’ Rosa ‘Ausprior’ Climbing Rose English breeder #DavidAustin

#Lilium 'Silk Road' Orienpet Lily

#TheAeneid #Virgil #RobertFagles, translator “So come, young soldiers, welcome to our house. My destiny, harrying me with trials hard as yours, led me as well, at last, to anchor in this land. Schooled in suffering, now I learn to comfort those who suffer too."

#Hemerocallis 'Apricot Sparkles' #Daylily

#Hemerocallis ‘Persian Market’ #Daylily

#Ulysses #JamesJoyce I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Twentyeight I was. She twentythree. When we left Lombard street west something changed. Could never like it again after Rudy. Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

#Lilium 'Beijing Moon' Orienpet Lily

#Hemerocallis ‘All American Chief’ #Daylily

Hummingbird Books #HummingbirdBooks Independent bookstore in Chestnut Hill, MA

#TheAeneid #Virgil #RobertFagles, translator Wars and a man I sing—an exile driven on by Fate…. Tell me, Muse, how it all began.

#Rosa ‘Summer Romance’ Rosa ‘KORtekcho’ #Kordes Parfuma collection German breeder W. Kordes

#Asclepias tuberosa Orange Butterfly Milkweed

Finished #Transcription #BenLerner “He did, my father, have beautiful eyes…Their far look when he was calculating, when he lifts his eyes from the paper: f is the force, p the density of water, g is the acceleration due to gravity…He would be calculating what they could withstand, his dams.”

#Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard'

#Lysimachia clethroides 'Heronswood Gold'

Finished #TheOdyssey #Homer #RobertFagles, translator “I begged you for everything I saw…and you named them one by one. You gave me thirteen pear, ten apple trees and forty figs -and promised to give me, look, fifty vinerows…” Living proof - and Laertes' knees went slack, his heart surrendered,

#Digitalis grandiflora Foxglove

#Delphinium elatum 'Faust'

Finished #AngelDown #DanielKraus and Veck’s whisper is the shiver of stirred syringes… “ ‘Can you go into a restaurant where white people dine?…’” and Bagger…never defended the U.S. Army in his life…when one need only look at this genocided forest to know they failed,not as an army but as a species

#Alcea rosea Hollyhock

#Acronicta americana American Dagger Moth

#Clematis 'Piilu'

#Asclepias syriaca #Commonmilkweed #Milkweed

#Delphinium 'Cobalt Dreams'

#Rosa ‘HORCOGJIL’ Rose ‘At Last’