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To: Gauguin who wrote (23839)	5/1/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hey, baby. Sounds like you're feeling better. The rhodies sound so beautiful. I wonder if they are as beautiful as you make them sound, or whether they sound good because of the way you talk about them? I just went out to see if the lilacs are blooming. Not yet. I didn't think so, but I saw some blooming in a yard down the street, only a few blocks away. Micro-climate, I think, ours are downhill and shaded by the neighbor's house. The azaleas are blooming, only three bushes, one coral, one fuschia, one scarlet. I think of them as being just right to make silk skirts for fairies. The oak trees all have leaves now, about the size of a baby's hand. But in a bucket full of rain on the patio I saw the rain had knocked down a bunch of little ones, the size of mice paws. Perfect little minature oak leaves. Wish you could see them.

To: Gauguin who wrote (23839)	5/1/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Last week we went to the Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. It is a slice of heaven on earth. There were marvelous flowers everywhere - and we spent hours luxuriating in the succulent garden. The Puya chilena threw an abundance of these heavy man-sized flower spikes spiral-wrapped in these remarkable turquoise-tealy blossoms. There was an Agave somebodyi (from Arizona) sending forth flower stalks. The plant is a compact rosette of serrated leaves, and each leaf retains an imprint of the sawtoothed edge of its inner and outer neighbors as the bid unfurls. Vegetative jigsaw puzzle. But my reason for posting is that we found the Rhody Corner. They were not particularly dense plants - guess the weather is not quite right in San Fran - but they were flowering to beat the band. And the ones with the white flowers smelled good.