Thursday, 11 March 2010
The daffodils are coming!
For the first time, I made the Asian chicken salad recipe tonight with Chinese black vinegar rather than balsamic.
It’s still simmering, so I’m not sure whether it’ll taste different. I do know the simmer mixture looks the same, though—deep black-brown!
Hmm. And I have the cilantro and green onion for the topper this time, too!
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
From fall 2007, out west—not here, today.
Off and on today, I forced myself into an anti-gloom mood, although the rain beating on the roof tended to draw me back to that place….
Apparently at least one variation of the phrase “nice weather for ducks” (this is my dad’s version) dates back to the early nineteenth century and was used by Dickens in 1840….
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
I suspect you’re probably bored with hearing about rainfall patterns, but I have one more comment: Australia has been in a drought—dry, dusty, drought. Lately, though: rain. Lots of it some places.
Around here: sunny this morning…overcast by late afternoon. Rain, They Say, incoming in the wee hours—just in time for Garbage Day.
Monday, 8 March 2010
Compare this view with how it was back in mid-January, and you’ll see that there are two new vertical elements under construction—I’m guessing they’re bridge supports. (Oh, and the creek-edge ice and snow have disappeared.) Notice how they’re right at the edge of the property, just beyond the blacktop parking lot.
I’m standing by to see what this area becomes. It’s downstream of the BotGarden….
I’ll also note that the (original) Midtown Ru San’s sets out a better sushi lunch buffet than the Caroline Street location….
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Sometimes I really can’t figure out peoples’ design paradigms. The piece I can’t figure out with this entry area is the Fresca box….
Mind you, no protection from the purported feline from the screen door….
Saturday, 6 March 2010
I’m back to being hopeful about spring’s arrival. Mostly, I’m enjoying sunny days like this one….
In the meantime, I think I need to extract a stumplet from the verge sometime in the next week (redbud that the tree took out)—because we ordered a bare-root almond tree for that spot…. Oh, fun.
Friday, 5 March 2010
I really noticed the increased daylength today, and the low-angle pre-sunset twilight that is becoming prolonged, although not to summertime durations.
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Sometime between yesterday and the day before, the Lumix took ill. No damage-inducing activity. No excess cold. It was just sitting on a shelf.
I’m sure the manufacturer would never believe us, though.
The Guru checked the internet, and other people report similar event-free damage.
Perhaps still amped up from replacing the hard drive in my Mac last year, I think he’s pondering fixing this, based on info he found, yes, on the internet.
Yes, the camera takes pictures just fine. The playback’s what’s compromised (the screen).
Pretty isn’t it?
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Here’s more evidence that spring is running later this year than in the recent past. This Japanese magnolia (Magnolia liliiflora) is from this day, three springs back.
Once again (sorry for the preaching): climate is not weather.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
On this day two years ago, it was a weekend and we hiked on Johns Mountain, in northwest Georgia.
The day was sunny, and we basked in it.
Today is much different. We tackled weekday chores. We watched huge wet snowflakes come down for hours under a grey sky. We also watched the flakes clump on the grass, and melt on the street.
Overnight it will freeze, I’m sure, and we just hope that the electricity doesn’t fail. (Brrr!)
I’m sure that the view from Johns Mountain today is not this green…even under the white.