Long Awaited Boston Flower Show shenanigans

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Also known as "Watching Pete's 'Keets". I spent much of Sunday over by Peter S.'s garden/flight cage exhibit, watching the silly birds. He's usually got birds of some kind in his exhibit, but this year he had a large flight cage with doves, quail, pheasants, cockatiels, wood ducks, several different kinds of parakeets, java finches and budgies. The budgies especially stole the show: one of the doves was hopping up and down very oddly; I took a closer look and discovered a budgie was riding on the dove's back, nipping at the dove (and the dove was about five times the size of the budgie)! Also, the budgies had set up their own little territory in the top of one weeping cherry tree: if any other birds came flying in for a landing on that one tree, they would promptly chase away the intruder, or at least they did until some of Peter's crew came to drain the duck pond. The cockatiels were carefully avoiding the budgies by hiding up in the wooden bracings at the tops of the posts that supported the roof of the flight cage, about thirty feet off the floor.

Mind you, I did look at the other exhibits, including the very strange garden which the grower my dad works for had put together, with the brown lawn and the cluttered stone heads: Pharaoh head with a fountain, Buddha head, Easter Island head -- buh? I guess it was supposed to be multi-cultural.

There were some different bonsai this year, including a bonsai cherry tree, which lead to some hysteria in my headspace, in which one of the occasional visitors embarrassed one of the residents by talking about "the bonsai incident".

Then there was the weird little garden with the oddly cut stone blocks and mosses, and the one with the savanna animals made from dried grasses. Sadly, there weren't any of the quirky flower arrangements with oddball props, but that may come back next year.