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Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along

Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along... as his stronghold diminishes. Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts to reveal her true colors in fits and starts, nevertheless, she displays skittishness, when sun kissed "Radiance" (the closest equivalent would be Aglaea from Greek mythology, one of the Charites (Graces) associated with radiant beauty and festive splendor) dearly fawns upon her, though as temperatures tick (tok like a byte dance) upwards, a preponderant panoply and splash of color will soon highlight, predominate, and x ist showcasing the splendiferous, odiferous, and luminiferous latent potential conceded courtesy mother nature "Gaia" housing the pent up locked energy once dormant under the frozen terrestrial surface emergent after celestial seasonal thaw, which comes trumpeting and marching when the hills alive with the sound of music, where in months to elapse topiary will come to life once nondescript hedge rows sculpted into ornamental animal via botanical artist wielding pruning shears and chainsaw carved, limned and sculpted with wrist a cratic wrought voila uber prestidigitation head turning botanical picturesque Sun kist animals at an exhibition transformed miraculously via Te Deum divine fist bumping, whence realistic fauna burst alive with an explosion of colorful twist and shout of foliage, where scalloped superfluous, incredulous, and anomalous banana rama manna for naturalist deciduous detritus capacious carpet boar animation punk chew waits groundswell. Liszt ghost would arise from the grave to produce magnum opus without a beat missed such shrubbery mimicking likeness sans glistening fleshy sin yew, and gist about ready to become bone a fide (green behind ears) thriving vox populist, per species and genus wrought thrashing into birth as delicate craftsman promised to imbue life, liberty and pursuit of happiness whittling away leavings, thus did exist the nascent then omnipresent visible entity emerging from cocoon, an herbalist metamorphosed from the imagination of a skilled, practiced and mentalist conniver viz extracting the initially obscure blessed beast, where with august magic wielding tools of this specialty vis a vis bringing breathing manifest destiny ala Pinocchio (trans formed from wood to flesh), whereby finest dexterous chiseling blistering hands baffle onlookers as coterie of topiary harvest breathes mind bogglingly astoundingly authentic rooted ready to frolic in grass menagerie, a gamesome group of linkedin live progeny, the Michelangelo of dirtiest canvass, an earthen tabula rasa of sorts, where application threshing re: electric cool laid ahs hid test brings out chlorophyll doppelganger green hued key luster incorporating a webbed, wide world buzzfeeding with a host of organisms avast vernal renascence blooming forth when optimal environmental conditions met oblivious to whether Gregorian Calendar indicates the start date (about twelve weeks after the northern hemisphere subjected to hiemal, hibernal, winterish, or bruma weather) ecstatic regarding and regaling March madness Rite of Spring, when the sun crosses the celestial equator in a northerly direction, marking the prime meridian of right ascension heralding flickering, snapchatting and twittering Firebird Suite witnessed amidst flora busting out all over in all her morning glory concurrent resultant boom courtesy the winds of March whooshing in newlife budding forth dispersing seeds of life and white lily, whereby creationists attribute videre licet pollinators of Eden given special dispensation, license, and tithing with gumption to propagate at the expense of annihilation, discrimination, hybridization, marginalization, sanctification, (and exert dominion - domination over all creatures great and small, all things bright and beautiful, and all things wise and wonderful, which mandate to be fruitful and multiply) taken to heart and bestowed, allotted especial sanctity to human life reproduction dogmatic, idiomatic, osmatic deeds categorically to beget in obeisance to supposed sacred text bamboozling, extolling, and foretelling gamut of various and sundry diverse creeds, misfit nationalities, and tribes of man/womankind, where taint any chance civilization and their discontents also known as *****sapiens will endure raining ruination upon planet Earth, where heirs and heiresses temporarily obscured by obscenely offensive musky men trumpeting proclamation ejaculation.

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