Heirloom ColumbineYep, I checked, it is Tuesday. Beautiful day, some wind, maybe we're finally really getting spring. Should have the mosquitoes in about a week. There's not much to write about today, but everything's going fine. I'm painting.
The purple columbine is an old fashioned perennial, what they call an heirloom plant. It was given to me by neighbors Ann and Jim Roberts who used to live down on the corner. Hers got bigger there than mine ever do. They moved to Encampment and said I could have any of the plants. This is the only one I took and I'm glad I got it because the next people who bought the house weren't there much to take care of the yard. One day their boys were shooting guns and shot the propane tank and the place caught on fire. It burned down the garage and the house also caught on fire and burned through the roof. The yard and garden pretty much burned up, even some aspen trees by the road. The fire department came and put it out while the walls were still standing. The house was rebuilt, and a new garage. The aspens came up again, but I never saw the columbines come back.
