10 responses

• Jim Cowie May 10, 2008
   

  Boston! Lilacs! Morris dancing! REFRESHMENTS! What's not to love.

   
• Arkansan May 10, 2008
   

  I wish I were there!

   
• Arkansan May 10, 2008
   

  what or who is "Morris dancing" I wonder.

   
• notgneiss May 11, 2008
   

  Morris dancing is a traditional English folk dance, performed with bells strapped to one's ankles. I have a friend (who once ran most of the technology development for BT) who is an avid Morris dancer.

   
• notgneiss May 11, 2008
   

  Went to the Arboretum two weeks ago -- the lilacs were still in early bud, but oh the dogwoods, the magnolias, and all the mysterious Asian trees and shrubs spirited back from collecting trips decades ago by those sneaky Harvard horticulturalists...

   
• notgneiss May 11, 2008
   

  It's a vegetal equivalent of the Elgin Marbles...

   
• notgneiss May 11, 2008
   

  Except that you can abscond with them without ever really depriving the host.

   
• notgneiss May 11, 2008
   

  Kind of like software.

   
• notgneiss May 11, 2008
   

  No, I didn't say that.

   
• Arkansan May 11, 2008
   

  Thanks, notgneiss. I've never seen Morris dancing, and it sounds lovely. I have been to the Arboretum maybe 7 or 8 years ago and have longed to go back. It is truly beautiful, and I agree worthy of the comparison to the Elgin Marbles.