Spring has come the same time this year (calendar wise) as always, but as far as the flora is concerned, every thing is screwed up. Last week we had another hard freeze (was it really only a week ago?), and all the Circadian Clocks of the plants are fouled up. Add to it the Daylight Saving Time, and I am totally out of sync as well. All the plantings are starting over, and it is going to take a while for everything to get back in the groove. Not sure if everything will come back or not, but everything will give it their best, I am sure. The Iris should really be much further along than they are, but we are only getting a few blooms here and there. Today was a beautiful day in honor of the new calendar season, blue skies, temperatures in the middle 70s, all together not too terrible for the middle of March.Clarion -- Adjective. brilliantly clear; also loud and clear. "Kansas Citians issued a clarion call to local businesses and government officials this week: Workers should make a minimum of $10 per hour." The Kansas City Star, August 11, 2017
Did You Know? In the Middle Ages, clarion was a noun, the name for a trumpet that could play a melody in clear, shrill tones. the noun has since been used, chiefly in poetic or historical narratives, for the sound of a trumpet or similar sound. By the 1800s, English speakers had also started using the word as an adjective for things that ring as clear as the call of a well-played trumpet. Not surprisingly, clarion ultimately derives (via the Medieval Latin clario-) from clarus, which is the Latin word for "clear." In addition, clarus gave English speakers clarify, clarity, declare ("to make clearly known"), and clear itself.
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