| || grime, whack, cicada, prompt, work their magic.
Image from the Internet, caption by Owen.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
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Even in the sweat and grime of the city,
Where it seems Nature's gotten out of whack,
Where all that iron and glass have no pity,
And concrete and stone exist only to crack,
Still the seasons come their appointed rounds,
And all life continues on its cycle again.
Blades of grass, stems of daisies find ground,
The cicada symphonies are prompted to begin!
Tho suppressed, Mother Nature's a tough old girl.
From the white shroud of winter she revives.
From parks, window boxes, roof gardens, unfurl
The magic they work to show Mother survives!
Thank you, Owen!
I hope the tough old girl looks over my newly sown Columbine & Pansies. I had good luck with my crop a couple years ago, but my green thumb seems to have lost its magic in the intervening seasons.
Maybe if this time I don't over- or under-water, the good Mother will again work her wiles on my behalf.
~ OMK
It was fun to get PENN and Teller in both C.C.'s crossword puzzle and in this morning's Jumble. Hope I get to see them on TV sometime. I had no problem with the first, second, and fourth items and put in something for the third one that turned out to be incorrect. But even so, I still got the cute theme, and then had to come to Owen's poem to find that noisy little critter that produced his symphony. All done, thanks, Owen.
How nice to hear about your planting, Ol'Man Keith. My garden is just abloom with roses and all sorts of flowers, none of which I planted recently, but which have benefited from all the rain this year, it seems. Good luck with your Columbine and Pansies.
Misty ~
Ah, yes, the roses!
We are blessed with two batches that were laid in by the previous owner--a fresh bunch of yellow roses climbing 7' high, flanking our front door, and several large red blooms on the side of our driveway.
Thank you for your good wishes for my latest attempt. We have a large bust of Shakespeare in the NE corner of our back garden, and I keep trying to lay in the flowers that Ophelia carries to the king.
WS is backed by a wall full of Black-Eyed Susans (appropriate, I think, to honor his daughter Susanna), and I am hoping to surround him with the Hamlet flowers.
So far all I've been able to keep there is Rosemary. It is wonderfully hardy, but I don't want it to feel lonely.
~ OMK
Wow! What a fabulous garden you have, Ol'Man Keith! And I love the way you give your plantings a Shakespearean or theatrical twist. It sounds simply wonderful, and I hope all your flowers and blooms will be a great success!
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