Brave Tulips Bloom

This week saw the official Jardin de Sparquette bronze (OK, brass) plaque installed on Massachusetts Avenue. It provides a fitting and some say defiant counterpoint to that ignoble Harvard edifice I have come to call The Reichstag.

That the Jardin flies in the face of Harvard's monstrosity is no mistake. For weeks, nay months, I have been hearing similar complaints from neighbors and visitors alike regarding the despoiling nature of the gargantuan new building. And now mere yards from it, brave tulips have the audacity to bloom. Take that, Harvard!