The broad beans look great! I planted some and winter has not yet killed them but they are not so statuesque as yours. (I'm realizing that my regular migration between two cities that are 100 miles apart has warped my sense of what growth zone I'm in: "Ah," say I, smiling upon my gentle lakeside microclimate, "these tender herbs are overwintering most hardily. I should definitely put some in at the farm." Meanwhile, two feet of snow and subzero gales are freeze-drying said farm)

I have not heard of the Day of Reconciliation before; it sounds steeped in irony,