Pineapple: It’s a multiple fruit!
Monday, 5 March 2012
I gotta give C credit; it was her idea to photograph this half-peeled pineapple (Ananas comosus) with the coalesced berries exposed.
Musings
Declivity monitoring
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Yesterday afternoon, a small group of Canada geese browsed their way downhill on the grassy area in the cornfield.
This morning the overnight snowfall covered the greenness.
Now, a couple of hours later, the snow is melting fast and the clouds and grey are battling for ascendance above.
Viking kayak
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Long story short, I saw a buncha gorgeous wooden kayaks today (so ya know I got out!)—thanks* to KW—, and this was on the nose of one of the less glamorous specimens. My conclusion: a Viking(?) kayak is a rare and lovely thing.
* And thanks ever so much, KW; more than you know.
First nap (new chair)
Friday, 2 March 2012
Hands down, the biggest excitement of the day around here was the arrival of The New Chair, carried in by two guys whose sartorial choices trended camo. Note, too, the elegant and very cool IKEA LED lamp on the lazy susan (which you can’t see from this angle and which we introduced to this tableau last week).
Twofer illustrates scale
Thursday, 1 March 2012
This is the power of weeds*; on this day, with temps reaching 51°F, one weed species (unknown to me) managed to bloom amongst the strawberry plants.
I couldn’t decide between the flower close-up (not a good photo) and the landscape (showing sky drama, but not a particularly good photo, either), for reasons that I cannot pin down. Hence, today is twofer day, and scale once again butts into my blog.
Not an hour after I snapped the flower photo, the sky became horizontally bisected; subsequently, the grey reigned and the sun abandoned us.
* Weeds are a concept, more than anything; they are culturally (socially) defined. They are plants, yes, and both species and individual specimens, that tend to grow where people don’t want them. Many people associate weeds with invaders of horticultural/farm plots, fields, and beds. But weeds can also be in your dooryard. So, I wonder if the concept of weeds originated with both sedentism and agriculture? Or just one of the two? Hmmm (meaning unanswerable).