Musings

Greens, of a sort

Fleur de ginger

Sending you a flower today, this time from a ginger plant. Lovely, subtle colors. Unknown function of the dangling parts.

Tio Flaco

Not sure why Tío Flaco is a good choice for a food brand. It means Uncle Skinny/Thin. Great colors, though….

TofL

Tree of life maybe

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.

Anatomy of a BookClub

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.

Too much?

Tag pile

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.

Reflections/reflecting

Sun angle moved

I can tell the sun angle is shifting—and the day length is…diminishing. Sigh.

Spider decorations

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.

Cake/ice cream

Bday cake icecream

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! 💚

Plane edges

Scarred root

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.

Yawn

Designer grass

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).

Hosta bicolor leaves

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.

Duos (sorta)

Windshield dew

When I left this morning, the temp was below 80°F (whew!) and I saw the dew thick on the windshield. Liquid diamond?

Urban gnarly trunk

In the oblique light, I found this gnarly trunk with a fern platoon casting pointy shadows on it.

Fern plus crape myrt blooms

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.

An awakening neighborhood

Pumping to manhole

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.

Backlit dogwood leaves

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.