Train rain terrain (no complain)
Sunday, 21 July 2013
We ventured out before the rain began. Yes, rain again. We now have had more rain this year than we did in all of 2012—without the July stats.
Musings
Oh, yum!
Saturday, 20 July 2013
BBQ, as in meat with flavors cooked over an open flame/fire, is a world-wide cooking technique. B’s version this afternoon had a Korean twist and fit into a pan-Asian meal to celebrate her son’s 24th.
BTW, we guests also discussed dumplings, as in boiled dough (moistened ground grain) mixtures, stuffed or no—concluding that they are near-global, too.
Vocab: petrichor
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Learned a new word from PCT hiker and lovely writer Carrot for a wonderful concept to have a word for…the word is petrichor, meaning the scent that follows a rainfall. Apparently, it’s not just the moisture we smell, but other complex scents from the soil and plants, caused/triggered by the moisture.
Anyway, rain in the afternoon and evening. But we’ve had so much that I didn’t get much of a hit of petrichor.
The “ichor” part of petrichor is the Greek word for the special fluid that is the blood of the deities.
Note: make a donation to Wikipedia, if you haven’t recently, and acknowledge how often you use it….
IBPS = agriculture
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Agriculture is an integrated biological production system, in which several crops are grown in combination (variously called polyculture, intercropping, or associated cropping), in succession (crop rotation), or in a combination of both approaches.*
That phrase, “integrated biological production system,” caught my eye. What if it’s just a few plants, like I have? Is that agriculture or some version of horticultural dilettantism?
The first sentence of a 2009 article by M. Kwak, J.A. Kami, and P. Gepts, titled “The Putative Mesoamerican Domestication Center of Phaseolus vulgaris Is Located in the Lerma–Santiago Basin of Mexico”, and published in the journal Crop Science (49:554–563). And, yeah, I realize that Phaseolus vulgaris is the bean, and the photo is maize—you work with what you have….
Quick cakes
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
In honor of our recent UP houseguests and because it seemed like the thing to do (blueberry special at store), I made blueberry pancakes for b’fast. That’ll either get you fired up or weigh you down. Seemed like the former for both of us….
Sunset in color
Monday, 15 July 2013
Thanks for the photo, Guru.
Definitely; the weather these days can be strange.
Never can tell
Sunday, 14 July 2013
A little dozing and a shallow foundation—then, presto!—a corn field turns into a motel. Zoom forward a few decades, get the golden hour to smile on it, and the building may even present a ghost of attractiveness.
And the shower head was great, the drain functioned perfectly, and the bed and pillows were comfy.
Severe art-deco
Saturday, 13 July 2013
Sometimes Art Deco pieces look so cold to me. Like this sun-moment at the Cincinnati Union Terminal; even the sun couldn’t cut the formality and severity of the design.
To me, anyway….
Fine-spray
Friday, 12 July 2013
Sometimes the golden hour and a good place to pull off the road with just the right backlighting all happen simultaneously. I photographed this irrigation mechanism for almost ten minutes…sooo fascinating. (Thank you, patient Guru!)