May is my absolute favorite month but also the busiest time of the year for me, with grading and other end-of-the-semester obligations, annual meetings for every single Salem organization to which I belong, and lots of stuff to attend to in the house and, of course, the garden. Frenzied activity and frustration, and lots of running around. This past week we have had absolutely beautiful weather: in typical New England fashion, everything just burst. So I took sporadic breaks from grading, not my favorite activity, and meandered about town. I did not have to go very far, as my neighborhood is particularly beautiful this time of year, and sometimes (often, after every other one) I can just raise my head up from the pile of blue books before me and look out the window and see something beautiful or interesting.
A photo shoot on Chestnut Street last weekend, involving quite a lot of people, and a single artist painting the park on the same day.
Admiring one neighbor’s lush yard, and another’s “spiderweb” window.
My jack-in-the-pulpits (Arisaema triphyllum) have arrived!!! Four this year!!!
Sorry this cardinal is a little blurry, but I chased him all around the neighborhood, determined to get his picture, and this is as close as I could get.
May 9th, 2013 at 11:02 am
What incredible flowers! I have just looked them up – definitely prefer ‘Jack-in-the-pulpit’ to ‘Bog onion’ :/
May 9th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
They are amazing, almost surreal, always a surprise when they pop up in the spring!
May 9th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Nice pics! good to see spring has sprung!
May 3rd, 2014 at 12:39 pm
[…] and pulmonaria in the “woodland garden” out back. Notably missing is my all-time favorite, the almost-magical Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), which should definitely have popped […]