What a beautiful day in the neighborhood! It may have hit 80 degrees today, I'm not sure. What I am sure of is, there is a cold front on the way (tomorrow or the next day) and the high temperature will be in the 60s if it can make it that far. Please make up your mind. Having said that, the flora are beginning to bloom nicely; have you ever seen a weeping red bud? Neither had we until a couple years ago, but this is archival documentation that they exist. I think this will be the third year in the ground, so we hope it will really take off, and that it is well settled in. The wisteria up by the road is lovely and very fragrant, and the iris are beginning to bloom. Poppies are popping up, but have not seen any blooms yet. I went and picked up some geraniums this afternoon, and some more hostas that I will get in the ground tomorrow or the next day. I suspect an armadillo uprooted three of the four sets of bulbs that I put in the ground last Sunday, but they are now BACK in the ground, so we shall see how that goes.Insuperable -- Adjective. incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved. The city's hope to build a new library faced a number of challenges, including the seemingly insuperable hurdle of securing adequate funding.
Did You Know? Insuperable first appeared in print in the 14th century, and it still means now approximately what it did then. In Latin, superare means "to go over, surmount, overcome, or excel." The Latin word insuperabilis was formed by combining the common prefix in- (meaning "not' or "un-") with superare plus abilis ("able"). Hence, insuperabilis meant "unable to be surmounted, overcome, or passed over," or more simply, "insurmountable." The word insuperabilis was later anglicized as unsuperable. Related words such as superable, superably, and even superableness have also found a place in English.
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