Blog Post 28 Morning Walks to Carpe Diem
Blog Post 28 Morning Walks to Carpe Diem May 12, 2018 Gentle Reader, Kaleemera! Walks down to the Carpe Diem coffee shop have started every day here for me on Lesvos. I usually see familiar dogs and cats, but mostly casts. A kind soul leaves food for many of the cats on the corner, where I turn to go to Carpe Diem. Ode to Lesvos I have seen the shriveling of roses clusters fading to brown petals falling in on themselves, falling into silent miniature heaps detached from the center where they were first born. I have seen the coming to be of wisteria, climbing poles and the trunks of trees, wrapping themselves between the lattice slats. In China, some wisteria take twenty years to mature, but in Kentucky, a few years and blooms come. In 1894, a Chinese lavender wisteria was planted in Sierra Madre, California. Measuring a full acre now, heavy with blooms at 250 tons of weight. I have seen lemons heavy laden and ripe fall to the ground in clusters