osmanthus typhoon

A typhoon is approaching, but for now I have the kitchen window open with the combined fragrance of ginger lily -: a cold warm spice – its chastity ambiguously lucent – and the fresh lilting apricot of the new osmanthus – which, unusually, bloomed two weeks early on d’s birthday last Wednesday. I thought I would share some just taken photographs — wish I could transmit the smell as well — before it all gets blown away.