Today the roses are in glorious full bloom for the first time this Spring. But so is the kudzu, its malignant vines obliterating entire banks of trees seemingly overnight, as if a sorcerer had turned them into humpbacked monsters that would not be free of his spell till Fall. Beauty and menace, cultivation and wilderness, it is with Nature as with Life. Today on the trials the brand new crop of babies were jogged along in their prams by the yummy mummies, and elderly couples aimed their binoculars at the trees and turned to smile at each other as if to say, we made it, we’re here for one more Spring.
