Those mad, wild, desirous of everything at the same time, never commonplace tree-flowers burn, burn, burn, like fabulous purple Roman candles exploding like spiders across the clouds and stars (apologies, Father Jack.) and never fail us in this here antipodal November to which we all groove!Entonces...calling all hipsters, flipsters and finger poppin' daddy and mommyos. Knock me your lobes! I came here to hip you to these way gone jacs...not to lay them out!
Remember that the bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he's cut out! Blow something cool their way before the tick tocks both us...and them.
Whew!
Now I owe an apology to Lord B! But what other than beat poetry can do them justice?
With my outright theft of the above graphic from Line of Sight...source of some of the very best Buenos Aires blogging of the last few months...not to leave out Jeff Barry and his blog, City of Faded Elegance, who gave them their due as well this season in his usual deft fashion...
...we have been duly reminded of one of the best things about this here 'burg in which we live:
The Jacarandas. And now a plea to your generosity:
I believe there is a blight among us.
I believe there is a blight among us.
As I am somewhat involved with the Facultad de Agronomía it will be pretty easy to confirm the creeping badness that I've noticed among them over the past three years.
Perhaps it's too soon for a call to arms...but I wanted to get your attention before they all lose their springtime charms.
I intend to adopt an sick jacaranda on Libertador in Retiro. Do you know of a similarly ailing one in your daily route? Are you interested in "springing" a few bucks...especially if I can get us a group rate?
It wouldn't be like gifting a torre to the city we love...it might even be better.
2 comments:
Yep...that's the stuff I'm talking about. I'm sending a sample to La Agronomia tomorrow.
Thanks! I'll keep you updated.
look to me yanqui mike i already tried to get my block to fix the sidewalks but wound up for a couple of dollars have a local super patch them all maybe we should start a sidewalk patching thing to now that there s probably an expat on every block it only cost me 20 dollars and he walked up and down the street with a bucket of a home made mix of concrete and solved the tripping problems david
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