{"id":573898990,"date":"2026-05-21T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898990"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:51:56","slug":"pretty-peony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/05\/21\/pretty-peony\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty peony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to check in on the peony. It looks pretty good to me. I wonder if it will hold up under the rain. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may29.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that typical? I&#8217;ve been talking about the weather. Noting its variation. Observing that we need the rain. I&#8217;ve been watching the drought monitor for a long while and, hey, we&#8217;ve been in a drought since last fall, and we&#8217;ll still be in one after this weekend&#8217;s weather passes by, I&#8217;m sure. And, yet, I&#8217;m complaining about the raindrops bending over a peony. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may30.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll lament even more when some summer storm bends over the crape myrtle. Isn&#8217;t that typical?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, cool today. Cold, perhaps. We made it to 53 degrees. I&#8217;m starting to regret putting my winter clothes away two months ago. No, I will not go and fetch something out of the basement wardrobe, just for seasonal spite. <\/p>\n<p>There is nothing exciting today. Well, nothing more exciting than this: I have gotten my work and my personal inboxes down to 30 items. I&#8217;ve also been arranging the order of the next few books I&#8217;m going to read. I&#8217;m going to read a lot this summer. That&#8217;s my gift to me. The only question is how many books I&#8217;ll keep going at one time &#8212; I used to read four at a time for reasons of convenience &#8212; or if that&#8217;s even a thing I need to do. It&#8217;s going to be a great summer. <\/p>\n<p>The temperature has been falling from an abberrational 71 at midnight to the upper 50s, all day. Tomorrow we might hit 60. Saturday we&#8217;ll do well to stay in the mid-50s. Summertime!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how the peonies feel about this. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaazjqq\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This is the last week of this feature. (For now, anyway.) We are going to spend it all looking at the majesty of <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/21\/malin-head\/\">Malin Head<\/a>, the northernmost part of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to check in on the peony. It looks pretty good to me. I wonder if it will hold up under the rain. Isn&#8217;t that typical? I&#8217;ve been talking about the weather. Noting its variation. Observing that we need the rain. 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