29 September 25

I have a committee meeting today for Berea Home Village, so I observe my tradition of wearing a necktie. I have chosen my hibiscus flowers tie, which comes with a hidden bonus of hula dancers (upside down) on the tie's tail!

10 March 23

It's a very cool day in central Kentucky, but it's still "Festival of Life in the Cracks Day," celebrating the first signs of spring. My tie shows pretty hibiscus flowers (and you cannot see the hula dancers on the tail of the tie). I found some new life in a sidewalk/curb crack!

7 October 21

 This is one of at least two National Flower Days. This tie is covered with pretty hibiscus flowers in many colors, and the tail of the tie shows hula dancers! By the way, today is Desmond Tutu's 90th birthday, and is also National LED Light Day (celebrating the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to the developers of LED lights in the blue range, the most difficult wavelengths to produce. What would life with Alexa be like without blue lights?). Chemists can celebrate the birthday of Niels Bohr (1885-1962).

7 October 20

 It's National Flower Day! (Just like the one that blooms on 21 March every spring!) Our yard is full of white and purple asters, along with goldenrod. My tie is covered with hibiscus flowers, and it has a special feature (hidden from most views) showing hula dancers (with hibiscus leis) on the tail.

8 April 19

I'll take the annual Hana Matsuri flower festival in Japan as a good occasion to wear my hibiscus flowers tie. Here in Kentucky we're seeing many flowering trees and daffodils, and tulips are beginning to open. Other events connected with this date are the first patent for a fire escape (1766), the first sale of milk in glass bottles (1879), the birthday of Kentucky author Barbara Kingsolver (1955) and the death of Pablo Picasso (1973).

21 March 18

Today, the second day of Spring 18, is National Flower Day. I'm not sure why this particular day gets that honor, but I'll celebrate anyway with my new brightly-colored "hibiscus flowers" tie. As an unexpected bonus, its tail features images of hula dancers, each wearing a hibiscus flower in her hair. Musicians are honoring today's birthdays of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Modest Mussorgsky (1838-1881). The annual tournament of saints called Lent Madness has reached the Elate Eight; I've been tracking the bracket on my office door.