Things You Can Pretty Much Count On

Tax day. You never completely know, until the final calculations are done, whether you’ll get a refund or will owe.

And you can’t count on much with the weather around here, or a lot of other things.

It’s good, then, to look around and see some things that are more or less reliable.

This, for instance, will smell heavenly:




This will make me sneeze and my eyes itch:




This, in our yard, will make a “rock peach.” (Gotta love it.)




This will attract hummingbirds:




This will beget black walnuts:




And this will draw ants, and then bloom pretty white right around Memorial Day.