Spring Purples

Look how purple these Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) start out!And flowers, ready to open.

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Still, spring is having a hard time soothing us. A year+ into Trumpism: a sizable percentage of the American population is militantly ignorant, authoritarian-minded, anti-rational, resentful, racist to the bone, and eagerly yearning for the alleged renewal that fascism promises. And the party weaponizing this 25-30% for the benefit of the one percent, the Republicans, have models for what they want to reduce America to. There’s the illiberal state of Hungary and the quasi-mystical organized crime syndicate called Russia, for two.