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I thought about simply “The Color Purple,” but that title’s been taken.  Having survived a first attempt at a blog, i wanted to try a quick repeat performance to see if happy lightning can strike twice in the same virtual place.  After all, just because something worked once doesn’t mean it will ever work again.  (In school i studied both Newton and Murphy.  In the years since, i’ve concluded Murphy’s laws are at least as relevant as Newton’s.)

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So the story here is there is no story--just purple...or in the case of the Japanese magnolia, formerly purple.  Thanks to one night of below freezing temps, the tulip tree’s purple blooms are now brown.  Normally they bloom in mid-February, but this year they came a few days early, and lasted a bit longer before the bitter end.  I was grateful my good friend Grace gladly graced the blooms with her presence the evening before they caught cold.

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The petite purple plants are puzzling.  They popped up from a planter in proximity to my porch.  One day last week while i was home, the macro lens expressed the desire to get out, so we chose the exotic locale of the front yard and visited the pretty purple things.  Hope you enjoy!

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Be blessed,

king