Tropics?

As we're impersonating the Midwestern Monsoon Capital here, "tropic" seems an appropriate theme.  Now that the temps have risen after the latest round of storms, it does almost seem like a tropical rain forest if you're in any kind of wooded area here.  After last year's drought, we need the rain, but enough already.  It's hard on those of us with mood disorders to go for extended periods without actually seeing the sun.  And while I'm not going to get all DFW* and add a footnote with cites,** there is some science supporting this phenomenon. In case you suspected I'm just making it up.


* David Foster Wallace, a great talent with a passion for footnotes. Sadly gone too soon.

** Which is not to say I won't ever offer cites, in note form, just that I'm not going to hunt down cites for this specific observation.  I am also likely to provide many notes so as to avoid being tangential in the body of a post.  I lack DFW's talent, but share his fondness for tangents and notes, as well as a mood disorder. 

Posting

This posting thing is nothing like fun when you've got 2 blogs that you've managed to create using different emails, so you need to sign out and sign back in to work with them.  Perhaps some day I will figure out how to have a single dashboard from which I can post to both blogs.  That day is not today, however. I hope your day was lovely.

What flower are you?

I seem to be a snap dragon, according to the quiz I took at this charming blog:

This garden is illegal. 

I've linked directly to the quiz,  so go see what flower your answers show you to be.  

Blog title

If you're a woman of a certain age, you'll get what the title of this blog means.  If you aren't, ask a woman close to you who's between the ages of 50 and 60 and I'm betting she can explain it.  See also, a line from that oldies rock classic that goes: Splish Splash I was having a flash.  So those aren't quite the lyrics, but you get the idea.

My view is that if you can't age with grace, you should at least try to do it with a certain amount of style and humor.  That's my plan.  We'll see how well it goes.