TRANS AWARENESS

 I would file this under my usual feature, Stop the Car, I Smell an Ignorant Bitch, because these people and the topic are far from ignorant bitches. But it is alarming and shows just what our trans brother and sisters must go through. The first is the great bathroom debate, which I'm so sick of hearing about. If a person identifies as the sex they are and is passible, I see no harm or need for hysteria to them using the bathroom of choice, and people need to lighten up for Pete's sake. Besides that, most bathrooms have individual stalls these days, not to mention, just make the bathrooms with locks on the doors or put in a third unisex room. I saw this clip of a trans man from Laverne Cox's Insta, explaining how nuts the right-wing plans to keep trans folk out of bathrooms which don't match their birth sex. No one who sees Nikson, with his beard and male pattern baldness in a men's room is going to notice anything different. Same with a trans woman who looks pretty much like a woman...I have a few trans women friends and they are gorgeous...one would never know and they blend right in. But Nikson gives a passionate speech and argument how something so simple has become a huge mole hill of a hot button topic. I still say that implementing single occupancy bathrooms is a solution which would solve everything, but we shouldn't have to do that. I could care less who's in the bathroom when I'm in there as long as you wash your hands!

Then another page I follow of trans activists Lelaina Faye recently analyzed Pete Buttigieg's approach to LGBT rights, specifically a trans question asked during a town hall by a lady in the crowd, asking if he could solve the trans problem in her question what he would do. Mind you I have, and will always love Pete, and he is a great and caring person, well-meaning and mannered and very intelligent. I'd still vote for him, but I agree here with Lelaina, and I'm glad she dug into Pete's candidate style answer. While I love him, he, being a member of the LGBTQ should be able to answer this simple question: What would you do?" That was the bar and I feel he slithered under it. It does send me a red flag. Mind you, I'm not trans, but we are all one community. This should be a no brainer to answer. It does shock me that he didn't give a clear answer, and it reminded me of too many to mention politicians who refuse to have a clear answer, and take a firm stand on something.

Don't worry Pete, I still love and adore you but try a bit harder next time at the bat...our trans brothers and sisters need you....and your still more Presidential than Biden, Harris, and Trump combined.

MUSICAL INTERLUDE- RUNWAY

What with the Devil Wears Prada 2 about to hit Friday...I have become completely obsessed with a song from the movie already hitting big. Lady Gaga, who I'm not the biggest fan, but will admit loving in this song and video, and Doechii have teamed up to deliver Runway, a very bold, high haute couture anthem with a bevy of safety gays from across the LGBTQ, some touches of ball, and club kid vibes. The video is jaw droppingly gorgeous!

 If I never did drag before this would WANT to make me a drag queen.  The high camp and nostalgia drenched fashion of the video mimics the precedent set by the forth coming film's press tour, and features Schiaparelli ball skirts and Givenchy leather capes, not to mention ode's to many pass and present fashion house!

Category is....Sass, Class and high-fashion Campery. darlings..

MOOD BOARD

 

Now I know it's Monday. I forgot to schudule my post to go automatically.some days one can tell I really am a natural blond. I sure hope you all made it this far without your morning cakes!!! Meanwhile...of course the weather is glorious today...since we are all back to work right? Onward hos to the week ahead!!

Happy Monday All...and enjoy some cake today!

SPRING IN THE AIR

 

What a weekend! A bit of gardening and relaxing, with some cult classic flicks yesterday. I had planned to work in the garden yesterday and did indeed have some time to plant the new salvia in between bouts of some downpours, but most of the time was spent today in the garden. Most definitely a cloudy, cooler and damp weekend. What with being away on a jaunt next weekend to NYC, I wanted to get my gardening in now. After work on Friday I made another trip to the Ashcombe greenhouses to get my Datura and Cassia, but they won't go in the ground for another week to make sure we pass the frost threats. But otherwise, spring is really in full swing now, with the flowering trees in bloom.... another week probably wrapping up. Our Dogwoods are in bloom currently. But now to worry, there are many stars of the show taking stage currently. 

The wild violets are coming up everywhere!!! I don't have the heart to pull them. They are one of those little simple flowers that just make you feel happy.

The bleeding hearts and columbines.

A new addition from last year, these Geum survived the winter and are blooming beautifully.

The rose garden is looking very robust and lush.

A new dahlia for this season!

In addition to some new stars like bee balms is this Centaurea montana. 

We will see how it does.

The lilacs are very intoxicating by my bedroom window. The house currently smells lovely with their scent.

The salvia and delphinium bed. More of each were added this year.

Some Sweet William. In the background are some sages and sea thrifts loaded with waiting blooms.

My peonies doubled this year!!! And if you see ants all over the buds...don't spray them! They are part of the plant's health. Peonies produce a sticky sweet nectar that ants can't resist. Once there, ants enjoy the nectar and provide natural pest control against thrips and apids.

 While prepping the salvia bed, I came across this Japanese Maple seedling, that must have blew over and grounded from our neighbor's house. A few weeks ago it was only one little leaf...now look at it. I dug up the little seedling in a ball and planted it in this pot to see if it continues. If it does, it will find a new home on the grounds to continue to grow. I think they are beautiful trees.

 

Waiting in the wings...the Datura and the Cassia. They look small now, but just you wait till they are planted and take off. By September the Cassia is tall, over 6ft!!!! Ain't spring grand? And the catbirds arrived back this weekend!