This Morning

[lsanderson]

So, this morning I woke up a little late shall we say and drew open the curtains to peer out the blinds into the back yard, where a male cardinal was splashing around in the cement birdbath my sister gave me quite some time ago. (One of these days, I've got to try and level it again so it will hold more water. My last attempt merely repeated the lean on a different side.) The back of the yard is filled with a ten foot tall hedge of mock orange, which is all in white flowers at the moment.

Comments

[batwrangler]

Lovely! Is the mock orange fragrant?

[lsanderson]

That's a good question. It certainly smells less than an orange tree, but I assume the name comes from the flowers. If it does, I guess I've never noticed it, but then the peonies are stinking up the corner of the yard I'm in most.