Euphorbia euphoria

Serving as bookends to the LipsYard perennial garden is a healthy blobs of Cushion Spurge (Euphorbia polychroma.) This one's on the left by the compost bin,

and this one's on the right by the herbs. These brightly colored plants bloom for weeks. To get technical, the flowers are actually bracts or modified leaves, which is why they last so long. It's just like the Poinsettia, which is in the same family.

Our Euphorbia euphoria is similiar to the Bush administration's disaster dementia; the worse things get, the happier 'W' becomes. Heck, he's even doing a little soft shoe dancing before press conferences. Maureen Dowd summed it up this way,

"Maybe the president is just putting on a good face to keep up American morale, the way Herbert Hoover did after the crash of '29, when he continued to dress in a tuxedo for dinner.

Or maybe the old Andover cheerleader really believes his own cheers, and that prosperity will turn up any time now, just like the W.M.D. in Iraq.

Or perhaps it's a Freudian trip. Now that he's mucked up the world and the country, he can finally stop rebelling against his dad and relax in the certainty that the Bush name will forever be associated with crash-and-burn presidencies."

Click HERE to bust a move on the dance floor with President Bush