Last fall we had a crazy warm spell that brought out many lilac blooms long before they should have come out – and when you spend your lilacs blooms in the fall, you don’t get many in the spring. While others delighted in the unconventional blooming of the lilacs in the fall, I mourned and complained, because I knew what we were going to be giving up. And here we fucking are.
This is the lone lilac bloom on our hybridized lilac shrub. In honesty, while others enjoyed a fall bloom, ours didn’t bother. Sadly, our trees tend to take a year off of blooming now and then, so ours joined with the others experiencing a lackluster bloom cycle. No matter, it makes this single stem all the more cherished and glorious – and it only takes one to fill a room with happy spring memories.
