One of my favorite snippets of musical liner notes comes from Peter Gabriel’s Plays Live CD which, after listing the several concerts at which songs were recorded, duly notes that some sounds were overdubbed at Gabriel’s home studio. “The technical term for this,” the liner notes wryly admit, “is cheating.”
And so I’ll duly note that I did not go to Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arboretum yesterday; instead, I shot this picture in my backyard in Keene last May, when lilacs last in my dooryard bloomed. I’m sure the lilacs in Keene are currently blooming–and I have photographic proof from Leslee and Sara and others that the lilacs were blooming in Boston yesterday–but I spent the weekend holed away in Newton with my paper piles. Here’s hoping I don’t catch any of my students doing anything that can technically be termed cheating, and I’ll see you after I submit the last of my end-term grades sometime before tomorrow’s noon deadline.
Hoarded Ordinaries 
May 12, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Heh. Well, it *is* your photo, even if from last year. Hope you get to go out and smell the lilacs (and all the other fragrant blooms out there – the Lily of the Valley are coming up around here) soon.
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May 12, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I like Peter Gabriel’s music even if he cheats.
I never see the lilacs in bloom at our Cape Cod house.
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May 14, 2008 at 7:11 am
hee hee — I strongly believe that sometimes a little cheating is good for us. And look, you proved it. Lovely picture. 🙂
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May 14, 2008 at 10:54 am
Yes, at least I didn’t steal someone else’s picture. I’ve seen all sorts of lilies of the valley blooming this week, but I haven’t yet gotten down on hands & knees to photograph them. There’s always tomorrow. 🙂
If you like PG, twoblueday, Plays Live is quite good, although it obviously doesn’t include any of his newer stuff since it was compiled before he made it big with So.
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May 15, 2008 at 10:01 am
Wonderful shot of the lilacs.
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