Morning Eye Candy: That Perfume

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on April 21 2012, by Matt Newman

I had trekked over to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden a few days ago to get a closer look at the tree peonies, passing by the lilacs on the way back. The aroma–it was like walking face-first into a pole, it was so sudden and powerful. Everyone gathered near the flowers was nodding and smiling contentedly, though whether in unspoken acknowledgement of one another, or in quiet appreciation of the perfume, I couldn’t say.

Syringa vulgaris ‘President Lincoln’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen