Traditions

Two annual traditions today. The first is a shot of the magnolia a couple of gardens over - I always try to blip it against a blue sky and here is this year's attempt.

The other tradition is that every year I forget that I suffer from hay-fever. Every year I have a couple of days of wondering why I keep sneezing and my eyes are streaming and I have a sore throat. Then I realise that it's hay-fever and I hunt out the Beconase and it calms down again. I didn't have hay-fever as a child, I'm not sure when it started, and I can never remember when it starts each year. This second tradition isn't that much fun.