Boxofrox your photos are so lovely ! I love all of them and think it's so sweet you generously share your blooms with everyone !! Your hydrangeas are spectacular . I have been keeping my eye out for a glowing embers since I saw your photos . Jim , if u catch this , I used to live in pa and the year of 9/11 I was a camp counselor at a camp in shanks ville ! The property was so close to the wreckage , we had to not use certain trails because there were government workers collecting various " artifacts " from the plane , and could be seen there. We didn't want to scare the children . It was quite surreal .

Shakespeare's writings are the source of so many of our common sayings. Brilliant writer and maybe one day we'll find out who he really was, or did he really exist. It seems extraordinary that so much amazing writing was produced by a single person. Maybe it was a "group write" done by performers as they rehearsed his plays.

I was unaware of the newer interpretation of that phrase. I always thought it meant stubbornly insistent.

I never came across Walpurga or May Day eve being special. But interesting -- and timely, if anyone wants to bring out their Halloween decorations, maybe?