The American psychologist William James famously imagined what the world must seem like to a newborn, and he supposed “the baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.”
Springtime in Iowa brings a confusion of blooming and buzzing and not to babies only, with May flowers springing from April showers and creating a feast for the senses.
Soon ThePerryNews.com readers will enjoy, thanks to roving correspondent and random adventurer Laura Stebbins, the beauties of the Ewing Lilac Arboretum and Children’s Forest — Perry residents can also see a profusion of lilacs in the alley north of 11th and Willis — but in the meantime, Stebbins brings us the pinks and whites of the crab apple trees at Water Works Park in Des Moines.
