Dear Nature, Mother Earth, Unknowable Mysteries, etc., why oh why must you, every year, showcase the plump and gorgeous peonies too briefly, only to pelt them down with rain, rain, rain, until they have bowed their crowns in submission, and some of them have become broken and arthritic? It is because "The Light that burns twice as bright burns half as long"(from Blade Runner)....?

Music from Gabriel Yared/C'est le vent, Bettye, Jonathan Bree/Waiting on the Moment, John Cale/Half Past France, Chris Rea/Auberge, Jonathan Bree/Heavenly Vision, True Blue/Bad Behavior, Emancipator/Baralku, Cocoon feat. Lola Marsh STATION ID/ANNOUNCE, The Brunettes - Lovesong,  Midnight Oil/The Dead Heart, Band of Susans/Paint it Black, Broncho/Boys Got to Go, The War on Drugs/Knocked Down, Gregory Alan Isakov/Salt & the Sea, Peter Gabriel & Melanie Gabriel/Come Talk to Me, STATION ID/ANNOUNCE, Sbtrkt/New Corp, NY feat. Ezra Koenig, Blockhead/The Music Scene, Dan Bodan/Talk to Me, Mustafa/Air Forces, City of the Sun/Second Sun, Afro Fiesta w/Twanguero & I-Taweh/Knockin on Heaven's Door, STATION ID, Supreme Beings of Leisure/Never the Same, Mitski, Supreme Beings /Strange Love Addiction, Grimes/So Heavy I fell Through the Earth...

Hey, take care!  Back June 17 with more of the seemingly un-ending supply....Cut the peonies, bring them in and make bouquets....