Musings

Dawn gave us a sliver of sky unencumbered by clouds, and the meteorologist says sun tomorrow. Today, however, still mid-Michigan overcast. Sigh.

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Against all odds, the sun actually peeked out for all of sixteen seconds today (in two brief sessions), and luckily I was standing by First Pond and caught its reflection. First Pond is the biggest of the ponds where I walk, and the first one you come to from the south (we were very inventive). We ice skated there, and fished for panfish, too, as kids. The algal infestation is a later arrival.

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Major, big-time, kudos and heaps of karma points to Evie for helping me with Mom this morning. Today was a far better day than yesterday, and some of Mom’s energy is returning.

These teeny plants, as I recall, are duckweed, and they got washed up on the footbridge by the swollen stream because of last week’s rains.

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Although beautiful golden leaves graced the entry at the MSU Clinic, we found the whole MRI experience lacking, to say the least. They took twice as long as they said they would, and Mom was an absolute wreck by the time they finished.

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I took a moment, sheltering the camera from the precip, and got these drops hanging on this shrub (unknown woody type).

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In my (usually) daily walks, I’ve tried to look for color, a goal that has kept me searching for days. Today, however, I found this remnant fleur, perhaps some kind of aster (sorree!—no web search time to figure it out), a huge surprise, as the grey days have mounted up, with the colorless skies desaturating the already rather plain vegetation. Yesterday I did see the swish of a white-tail’s tail, but that hardly counts….

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There’s not a whole lot of overwhelming interest, at first glance, in the old-field, glaciated, sandy area where I walk, but I did find this tree-ooze, sticky enough to capture a spider(?), perhaps on its way to becoming amber….

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Today the machines mostly completed the job of transforming the maize field out back into its winter mode, shorn yet still messy, like a bad haircut.

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The Canada geese have been on the move for weeks, but this is the first photo I’ve gotten, with overcast skies leaving the birds as mere dark outlines….

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…And you thought RSS just modifies “feed”—but, here, it means rain, sleet, and snow. All together. Welcome to Michigan!

Lacking shadows, I pined for them….

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