The Daily Respite

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June 18, 2022

Clara Parkes
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Good morning!

It’s Saturday, and wait until you hear what I found yesterday. There’s been a patch of irises in front of the porch since long before I was born. Gorgeous, picture-perfect brilliant blue Siberian irises. I suspect my great grandmother planted them, along with two mystery peonies that the rugosas refuse to let bloom.

These irises like to wander. Some jumped across the road and formed a new compound in the field. And from there, another breakaway sect decided to form its own village along the well path. There’s even a tiny clump in the swamp, how on earth did they get all the way over there?

Anyway, I was admiring a new cluster that’s been settling on the other side of the porch when something white caught my eye. Wait, what’s this? A white iris? Was I witnessing a botanical miracle? Genetic odds at work? Does this happen all the time? Or, hear me out, had Old Man Cooter snuck down and planted it there just to mess with me?

“Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life, its wonderful surprises.”

—Marlo Thomas

Onwards into the mystery,

Clara

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Lissa C Barker
Jun 18Liked by Clara Parkes

I love iris in all its colors! I have purple and white iris in my Round Pond yard.

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Alicia Barr
Jun 18Liked by Clara Parkes

Well, possibly you have guessed how I feel about volunteers❣️And a WILD white iris makes my day! Ohh yummm❣️Going to save the picture. (Irises are right up there with pansies and all their relations, in my heart❣️)

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