Rain’s mission: one drop at a time
Monday, 12 May 2014
Mahonia spp., probably either M. repens or M. aquifolium.
I often go two ways when working on an action plan: exhilarated and exhausted. They seem like opposites; trust me, they can coexist.
Musings
Yeesh
Sunday, 11 May 2014
The Buckhead Whole Foods is far more upscale than “ours.” Look, they even have a pretzel-dipping station.
Long story…short
Saturday, 10 May 2014
This was from yesterday’s event…delayed by circumstance. Anyway, is this not the academic version of the silks presented by jockeys, as at the Derby last weekend?
Love the center foreground mortarboard with the taped tassel…. Turns out there’s quite an etymological tale about that hat…real name/aka: square academic cap. Scary part: the hat style may have been derived from a Roman Catholic clergy style in turn derived from ancient times.
Wandering thoughts
Friday, 9 May 2014
I spent about three hours this afternoon watching these fixtures hanging from the ceiling of this music hall—and the events below them. Just light diffusers? Or also sound reflectors?
Yeah, I’m admitting I couldn’t concentrate on the main speaker’s…um-hmmm…yawn….
Whining about nothing really
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Silly me. I’d forgotten how much organic matter trees can drop in the spring—it’s not just autumn leaves….
And I’ll admit I’m predisposed to not like these Chinese elms the planners chose to replace the Bradford pears (that I loved).
Didn’t like it when one was above my sandbox (MANY years ago—hey: SANDbox); don’t like ’em any better now.
Happy plant(s)
Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Lichen from last week. If indeed it’s a lichen. Whatever—it was pretty, and lush from the rain.
Complex cycles
Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Lady-birds get a significant amount of calcium for making eggshells from consuming snail shells.
Of all things.
So, are French birds particularly calcium-healthy?
I get the sky part!
Monday, 5 May 2014
I’m so very glad I’m beyond (or maybe I’m deceiving myself) those story questions test-givers like. The “is-tos” were opaque to me—often totally opaque.
As in: the loading dock is to a major building as the…is to the….
See, I’m so bad at them, I can’t even make one up!
Didn’t buy Heaven
Sunday, 4 May 2014
If you were going to eat pastries flown in from seven* states away, wouldn’t you want them to be named Heaven?
Curiously, on their website the bakery categorizes these as “cookies” not as “pastries.” First ingredient: puff pastry!
* Estimated.
Race Day
Saturday, 3 May 2014
We have a lovely neighbor who is from Lexington-area horse-country, and holds an annual party on Derby Day.
She’s a talented lady who also grows a front- and back-garden of flowers, with blooms nearly every day of the year.
This year, with a late spring, the roses and irises are all still gorgeous, although they’re usually less showy by now.
She also gives prizes for lady’s hats (no entry from me this year, although maybe next year? if I have help and prodding and a glue-gun loan from N and B).
And, yes, the juleps are delightful!