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BRThere’s something therapeutic about setting a table. You put things where they belong. That alone is a comfort.
The lavender was English, possibly a Portuguese hybrid, mixed in with Rozanne geranium, which refused to be decorative on command.
The climbing hydrangeas were savage. I did my best to trim them. Small garden. Big view.
It was the height of summer. Everything attractive, slightly overconfident, and on the verge of rupture, like an overripe baking grape. Sweet, full of juice and quickly passing its peak. We hadn’t quite discovered the seduction of the GLP-1s. A time of innocence.
Summer. Can it get here any sooner?
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