I’m grateful I’ve found time to sit with the lilacs again as they wind down. Grateful for rain all day yesterday though it kept me inside, and grateful for meaningful work that kept me in most of today; but especially grateful for an hour on Monday simply sitting with lilacs full of native bees. At times there was a veritable traffic jam, and I actually witnessed a couple of collisions. Who doesn’t love a lilac? Apparently all of Crawford does: there are so many that driving through town last Saturday, even on the highway, the breeze carried the sweet scent of lilacs through my open windows.