This morning I learned from the fount of all real news, CBC Radio, that June is generally the wettest month of the year in Vernon. And well it might be. We have had some real rain in the last few days, and the temperatures are quite a bit cooler than they were in the last two weeks of May. This is good for the yard. The back is ludicrous, a forest of sunflowers and maple branches. Jay described the pollarded maple as a bullet, a variation of the mullet. You know the once popular man's haircut that was short front and top and long at the back. Well a bullet is bald on top and long at the back. And that's what this huge tree is like. Very few new branches are sprouting at the top but the whole back, facing the house, is a thick train of leafy new branches. I've been enjoying working in the yard, going on a few hikes and bikes and watching a couple of good movies:
' The Insult,' directed by Ziad Doueiri is about Lebanon in the 80s. It's a wonderful treatment of a personal dispute within a national conflict.
'The Death of Stalin' directed by Armando Iannucci is a really good farce with some wonderful actors.
This shot is the best I could get of the 'bullet'
Two of the most beautiful roses in the yard
One of the ugliest faces in the world. This article written by the director of 'The Death of Stalin' just shortly after Trump's election is a good one.
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