When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d

It’s my favorite part of spring -  when the lilacs start blooming. Nothing else smells so good.

I’m not a big Walt Whitman fan (I loathe most of Leaves of Grass) but lilacs blooming makes me think of the poem. Incidentally I just looked up the definition of a dooryard.

door·yard
Pronunciation:\-ˌyärd\
Function:noun
Date:circa 1764
: a yard next to the door of a house

I guess that means we’d call it a front yard.

We have 3 lilac bushes in our yard and last year they bloomed before I got back from Utah. So after work I cut a ton of blooms and we’ve got a huge bouquet in the kitchen.

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