I did a bloom inventory this week

crouching around with my camera

to see who will be showing their colors 

for the merry merry month of May.

Looks like salvia gracias will be dress

in pale lavender while the palo verde 

dances in electric yellow; the salvia celestial

is a veil-piercing violet with a magnolia base, 

the salvia farinacea are Lent vestment-purple,

the bladderpods are yellow like ducklings while 

the blue eyed grasses are violet and wee, mixed

among the white of the yarrow, fading to rust.

We've already passed the time of blooming for

the salvia mellifera and toyon, purple and white,

and can look forward to the desert willows and silk

trees and strawberries and crepe myrtle and all

the vegetables and sunflowers in the community

garden blooming before they fruit. It should be a

month full of color and contrast and joy and I 

hope to see you out amongst the flowers soon.