ONE WEEK AND COUNTING ’till Memorial Day Weekend, the traditional start of the busy summer season here in the White Mountains, which are in full purple lilac and shadbush bloom, giving us all such beautiful fragrant and visual delights before the crowds arrive.
As I am sure my late oldest brother David L. Eastman of “Country Ecology” fame would tell me, there are various beliefs about how a tree like the shadbush got named after a fish — and it’s not because its beautiful white flowers smell like fish (which would not be at all desirous!).
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