People who take up new things quickly are classed as "early adopters," those eager to be conversant with The Next Big Thing. It is estimated that those on the vanguard represent 14% of the population. They are the sort of people who have Alexa controlling their houses and lives, wear Apple watches, assume GPS is always right telling them where to go even when it's not, and hopefully then avoid crashing into us in their driverless cars as they try to figure out where they're going and how on earth they got lost. Maps are so yesterday, it's all apps today.
I will tell you that I've discovered a few of them here at Struan Farm. Quite inadvertently. This past week we had a few days of warm, consistent sunshine. I was (almost) convinced spring had sprung, but then I don't think of myself as an early adopter.
The weather was such that I was able to start the big spring clean up of the gardens at the house, in fact couldn't avoid cracking into it. Weeding, trimming edges, spreading fertiliser, cutting back dead things. You get the picture: trailers piled high, happy Karen playing outside in the dirt and warm sun.
I was especially thrilled when I came across these near the pergola:
The first tulips of the season, hooray! They are a bit premature, none are blooming anywhere else on the property. The warmth of the concrete and paving stones around and underneath the pergola has seduced them perhaps. But a sign of good things to come.
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