Things can't be be so bad if there are lilacs. Surely a perfume sweeter than honeysuckle couldn't be wrong.  Syringa vulgaris indeed.  Not everything from the Balkans is bad, right?  Who could fault the taste of a wild canary, or American goldfinch to those who prefer precision. And after seeing a monarch camouflage herself, fail not to confirm that orange is part way between the red of first bloom and the strident violet of week two, when the lilac finishes until next May or next June. When considering the mnemonic ROY G BIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violent), remember that fuschia is on the way to blue.