lorenius » lilacs http://lorenius.com Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:05:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d http://lorenius.com/2008/05/when-lilacs-last-in-the-dooryard-bloomd/ http://lorenius.com/2008/05/when-lilacs-last-in-the-dooryard-bloomd/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 13:42:45 +0000 lorene http://lorenextreme.com/index.php/2008/when-lilacs-last-in-the-dooryard-bloomd Continue reading →]]> It’s my favorite part of spring -Â when the lilacs start blooming. Nothing else smells so good.

I’m not a big Walt Whitman fan (I loathe most of Leaves of Grass) but lilacs blooming makes me think of the poem. Incidentally I just looked up the definition of a dooryard.

door·yard Listen to the pronunciation of dooryard
Pronunciation:\-ˌyärd\
Function:noun
Date:circa 1764
:Â a yard next to the door of a house

I guess that means we’d call it a front yard.

We have 3 lilac bushes in our yard and last year they bloomed before I got back from Utah. So after work I cut a ton of blooms and we’ve got a huge bouquet in the kitchen.

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