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The marvelous lupines have a festival all their own and live only a short time in the magical space between the end of spring and the beginning of summer...perhaps that is why we here in NE adore them when they bloom profusely, which is most of the time, but mourn them when the conditions are not right...This is an in-between year..I present the wild one and her friends at Shadow Lake, VT.