The Deep Secrets are beginning to open, thus continuing the accidental bloom succession begun by the kōwhai and continued by the crabapple. The Blue Moon is close behind (the buds are swelling but not quite open yet) and the Westerland has decided once again to concentrate on producing one very very tall stem to the exclusion of flowers. So far.
Interesting Times
For some reason, English uses the letters t and h next to each other to express the consonant that begins the word thorn. But it was not always so. We used to have a letter for that sound, and it was called…thorn. It looked like this: Þ
For some reason (which may or may not be the same reason) we use the same digraph (th) to express the sound which begins the word then. But it was not always so. We used to have a letter for that sound, and it was called…eth. It looked like this: ð and it was for some reason pronounced eÞ, not eð.