Not gadgets

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pink flowersBy the way, Mary Anne is ill, and has no Net connection, and has a big scary exam coming up in a couple weeks, so you should all send her sympathetic email, which she will no doubt see when her Net connection comes back.

In unrelated news (except inasmuch as flowers might help cheer up sick people), I was walking to lunch the other day and encountered a parking lot new-planted with pink flowers. This picture doesn't convey what a startling contrast they were with the gray sky and the grayer parking lot, but it does perhaps convey something of how riotously pink they were.

4 Responses to “Not gadgets”

  1. Will Quale

    Wow. Donna Jo Napoli should plant these to give her flock of lawn flamingos a hiding place.

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  2. Shmuel

    Complete aside, with no relevance to this entry, but I didn’t know where else to put it: the Brilliant “Comments=x” Hack has not been applied to the links at the bottom of entries, but only to those on the index page. As a result, if one clicks on the link from the entry itself, the corresponding one on the index lacks the usual color-coding, and vice-versa. Not a major issue, obviously, but I thought I’d point it out…

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  3. Fran

    It does convey the carpet effect though–I have always liked the way these mums (?; and other kinds of these multiple-heads to the stem, many-petaled flowers) form such a lumpy, touchable cover to the ground. Way better than plain ol’ grass (which is mighty slow coming this Spring here in New England).

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  4. Karen

    Strips of these flowers grew near my Berkeley apartment. Around this time of year they always came up insanely bright. Does anyone know what they’re called? Because I miss them, and would like to try and find some locally.

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