Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Fresh-sliced mango flesh (we’re trying for vegetational diversity during this off-season).
No photo, but we saw the huge woodchuck that terrorizes The Botanist’s garden. He (She?) was cruising along the edge of the cornfield above the garden, stopping to peep over the vegetation and check out the house (we see you!), before disappearing in the uphill direction.
Monday, 19 March 2012
Just two days ago, I saw this fine asparagi (probably not the correct fake-Latin ending) crowning. And look at it now!
And here’s the kicker: I found another specimen that’s about an inch taller.
Good eating awaits!
Sunday, 18 March 2012
In an effort to reduce my ignorance a teensy bit, I checked the Wisdom of WikiPee on forsythia…and learned that the petals “become pendant in rainy weather thus shielding the reproductive parts“—just as you see in this picture taken during a light sprinkle.
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Raspberry cane sporting an…accoutrement.
Did more raspberry cane removal. Not quite finished because I switched to the asparagus bed. Did find a this-year’s-asparagus crowning the soil.
Can you say “spring!”?
Saturday, 17 March 2012
That moon! Sky is clear. Love the color graduation. (I am simple?)
Friday, 16 March 2012
Just four days ago, on the 12th, I posted a photo of the lilac, with dry, winter branches. Just look at them now!
And the caption: “Season’s turning: mostly not yet”—I’m into irony?? Is it really MARCH? In MICHIGAN?
Friday, 16 March 2012
Yesterday’s late-day shot, it turns out, was of a storm a-brewing (10-mile tornado swath through Dexter, details here), and this morning we’re enrobed in fog.
UPDATE: twenty minutes later, the fog is thicker…. SECOND UPDATE: forty minutes later—even thicker!, but more light.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
The sky doesn’t match, right at the moment. This cloud pattern is opposite the descending sun, and lit by it. The sun is slightly obscured by clouds, but bright enough. To the south it is homogenous grey and almost storm-like. To the north it is bright.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Both thermometers reported that temps topped 80°F today; something’s not right (this is MARCH)! I found it just too hot to finish the raspberries…(lazy me).
So glad there’re leftovers in the fridge….
