Nothing funny about feldspar

Some of the other refugees from Plagioclase’s mother’s yard are these two lilac bushes, one your basic purple or “lilac” color, and one white. I can’t tell the difference in the smell, though supposedly some people can.

And much to Plagoclase’s mother’s surprise, lilacs do not give me a headache (or the sniffles — but that I mainly get from pine pollen and ragweed).

I wanted to get the flowers from both in one picture, since they’re right next to each other. There must be some flowerly competition going on that prohibits those other flowers from being anywhere near my own (me being a lilac bush).