Thursday, 11 August 2016
Sending you a flower today, this time from a ginger plant. Lovely, subtle colors. Unknown function of the dangling parts.
Not sure why Tío Flaco is a good choice for a food brand. It means Uncle Skinny/Thin. Great colors, though….
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
I don’t know if the artist intended this to represent a tree of life instead of just a contrast to the buildings, but that’s what I think of.
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Last night I hosted the Ladies Who Read. Only, last night we were the Ladies Who Watch a Movie, although most had also read the book. Great fun.
Monday, 8 August 2016
You decide.
I bought six seat cushions several months back…the kind you plop atop wooden chair seats (kitchen, dining room). I got stymied by the labels, the ones sewn into a seam, meant to be removed only by the consumer.
Me, that is.
Today, I removed them. (No sass.) Five per cushion. Whew. I cut them away with 20th C technology—an X-ACTO knife.
And now it is finished and the labels are in the trash and the cushions are plumply awaiting backsides.
Sunday, 7 August 2016
I can tell the sun angle is shifting—and the day length is…diminishing. Sigh.
I believe I’ve posted a similar photo before…apologies…but I find the decorative spider-work visually compelling, draped over these meticulously shaped fine-leaved bushes.
Saturday, 6 August 2016
I’m not real keen on celebrating my own birthdays, but I’m happy to celebrate others’. Tonight was a classy 75th high-quality years. Gooooooo Lovely Linda! 💚
Friday, 5 August 2016
I thought of this scarred root that looks like it oozed above the surrounding blacktop when I heard a PRI story (this replayed?) about land disappearing into the sea near the mouth of the Mississippi and in coastal Virginia—I thought of it as rather the opposite…emerging from below. Many times this root, an underground branch of sorts, has suffered attacks, some maybe attempting to level it. And still it grows.
Thursday, 4 August 2016
It was the Botanist’s position that when plants were bred to have variegated leaves, well, this was “frustrating the plant.” By reducing the chlorophyll (and not the leaf area or plant size).
No doubt I have already mentioned this. You get a redux because the other thing I was thinking about was retirement strategies and RMD*s.
* RMD = required minimum distribution. Applies to IRAs. You probably DO NOT want to know.
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
When I left this morning, the temp was below 80°F (whew!) and I saw the dew thick on the windshield. Liquid diamond?
In the oblique light, I found this gnarly trunk with a fern platoon casting pointy shadows on it.
My eye got distracted as I walked by another stand of ferns by bright pink that my brain could not associate with fern botany. I looked closer and discovered that it was a bloom-cluster from a crape myrtle that loomed above.
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
After rounding a few corners in the early-light, and encountering dogs secure behind yard fences that barked at me, I rounded the corner by this and heard an engine running at a constant speed. Then I saw the orange barrels in the middle of the street. What’s this I thought. Not sure; the pump is down in a very low spot that used to be a parking lot behind a small apartment building. I can assume it has collected rain, but I’n not sure why this time it was decided to pump it out.
Elsewhere I encountered the sun, out to warm me since 79°F is apparently not warm enough…but the backlit dogwood leaves it created rather took my breath away.