Today started foggy and rainy. But the garden was wonderful. The daffodils had come and gone. In their place were hundreds of jonquils, white and yellow, smelling marvelous. Adding to the perfume were lavender (something we were told could not be grown in Arkansas) and wisteria.

Most of the day was spent in meetings with educational content. There was a rose seminar attached to lunch, then a talk on the wild flowers of Arkansas with a dessert afterwards.

Of course, I caught up on the gossip that I had missed while I was traveling. There were stories about the tornado damage and its effects on my friends. There were actually ten tornados that touched down in the Little Rock area. All were EF1 or 2. That's plenty of wind enough to damage houses. But the main problems were caused by trees and their limbs taking down power lines. Many neighborhoods were without electricity for over 15 hours.