The Slower Road

It seems to me that I haven’t posted anything here lately about our Univ. of KY basketball team, so if you’ll indulge me in an 0ff-topic post for today* …

After an exciting, but late Friday-night game, and an equally exciting Sunday-afternoon game, our Wildcats are back in the Final Four in the NCAA tournament. Their Final Four game is this coming Saturday evening in New Orleans and, just to ratchet the tension up a notch or two (or several hundred) we’re playing our in-state rivals, the Univ. of Louisville’s Cardinals. I can’t even begin to imagine how charged the atmosphere will be — not just here in Lexington, but across the state — on Saturday.

If the Cats win on Saturday evening, we’re planning to walk the short distance from our house over to campus or downtown to see the festivities.

Go Cats!!!!

* I’ll warn you right now that I hope to be posting one or more of these similarly off-topic posts next week!

After posting yesterday’s quick rundown of pink-blooming trees, I realized that I had forgotten the redbud. We’ll have pink dogwoods soon, too.

To rectify the oversight …

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by the old farm road that separates the back of the KY Horse Park from Walnut Hall

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And, just for good measure, here’s a Horse Park tree near the steeplechase course, just starting to turn green. In a little more than a month, this tree and its compatriots will be in full-green summer mode, and this entire space will be filled with people enjoying thecross-country portion of the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event.

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Even though we had a rather mild winter, it’s still sooo nice to be able to have our windows open and to walk outside and be greeted by a warm breeze, bright green grass, and flowers.

Because the winter was so mild, these guys have been blooming in our front yard since January …

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Lenten roses

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But now that spring is really and truly here, it’s the season to enjoy new flowers each day, and to revel in the myriad shades of pink as plum, tulip magnolia, cherry, and crabapple trees all bloom in succession. Here’s the little crabapple tree outside my office window:

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