On this last day of spring, the word of the day is stalwart from Merriam-Webster. I don't experience this as a word for the season of spring or summer. "Marked by outstanding strength and vigour of body, mind, or sprit."
Let's go shopping for another word of the day - at Pinterest today's word is inflection point, a point which a major or decisive change takes place; critical point. That seems like a good match for a season change.
Do you like the name of the website wordthink.com? Here's the word of the day: assiduous. Constant in application or attention; diligent: "An assiduous worker who strove for perfection.". Unceasing; persistent: "Assiduous cancer research."
Competing with these is wordsmith.org - it has a weekly theme - words made with combining forms - lithopone, aischrolatreia, henotheism, hyponym, geratology (that's today) - the study of aging and related decline, the study of a species approaching extinction. That word gets our attention.
A selection of jokes to mark the end of spring...
Q: What’s the difference between a cat and a comma? A: One has claws at the end of its paws, and the other is a pause at the end of a clause.
Q: What happened when the verb asked the noun to conjugate? A: The noun declined.
Accordion to a recent survey, replacing words with the names of musical instruments in a sentence often goes undetected.
I found today's flower in Victoria a few years ago at the Princess Abkhazi Garden. I never figured out the name of the tree. And then earlier in the week I found another picture of the tree and label. So it is Eucryphia - a beautiful, small tree, blooming at the end of the summer with camellia-like white flowers. It is a zone 8 plant so is found in many gardens in the Victoria area. It originates in Chile.
