Musings

When I heard yesterday that today it would be 80°F by noon, I knew I had to walk early enough that the hot-beast was only breathing in spots of full sun. It rained overnight, so the humidity was outta sight. Whew! Got my steps in, however, and simultaneously avoided the air-crud that accumulates later in the day. [BTW, the Spices business has been closed and gone for months, since January, if I remember correctly. Must be that the rents are astronomical…as there’s plenty of foot-traffic during normal business hours, which you’d think otherwise would make this strip a good one for a store.]

Most photogenic flower today: this lily trio, decorated with a few droplets, and, I think, no insects this time.

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I’ve been smelling honeysuckle blooms the last few days—intense sometimes, perhaps intensified by the rain the other day. I can’t decide if I like the rich odor or it’s…too too too.

Today I found this stump, in a fresh-cut trio on a verge, with a few wood-shavings as evidence of the action. Redbud. Its…children…are striving for a come-back.

In neighborhood news, I caught the fire-truck returning from…?an airing? It pulled up in front of the station, in the street, and doors opened and guys got out, and directed the backup toward the inside parking spot. Fire-life returning to the waiting position.

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These droplets are from “real” rain.

Yesterday. Also on colorful-leaf vegetation.

And in neighborhood fix-it news, the firehouse is getting new vent-tubing? Not sure of the purpose/function of this pile.

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Plants typically have multiple names. For example, these look like lupines, but are not. They are in the greater legume family, however. They provided a good blue dye, hence their name: false indigo.

And this dogwood is the Korean type, aka kousa* dogwood.

* How did autocorrect change this word to “mouse”? Or, why is that a match? This is not the same kind of multiple names as with the false indigo….

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Love the post in the shadows. Not a metaphor for Derby memories, but….

The mixers—there were two—were scheduled at seven AM, and they were noisy-busy for a while, then there was a lull (or did I get used to the noise????), then noisiness increased, I think from a generator/pump…which somehow became white noise to my ears. Sometime late in the day…quiet?

I will check out the results…tomorrow?

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For a long time I’ve thought this was Asian dayflower. Preferring to be right not wrong, I checked the vast database (of plant identification and so many other things) we call the internet, and presto! turns out this is another plant ID I had wrong (remember clematis? I do). It’s a spiderwort.

On my walk, I discovered a new Tesla charger powerwall power source* on this house. Must have been installed on Friday or yesterday. Bets on whether they cover it with the brick contact “paper”/vinyl?

Almost got this wrong, too! The Guru said: not a charger, and visited the same data source I did for the flower…so, I was wrong twice today. And now I’m on the correct path.

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Big event today: “crowning” of new veterinarians! With the degree officially conferred in two sentences by the President of the University heeeemself at the end of the whole production. We won’t mention the speaker who wound himself (and not the audience) up for a few minutes, then launched in a list of ten points, several minutes on each, before winding up blah blah blah for a total of 37 dull and droned minutes. However, we got to see Our Gal become Doctor Gal*! 🧡❤️💛💜💚💙🐱🐶

And she’s taking a month off before she starts Her New Job, after a bazillion years straight of schooling. Whew! It’ll give her time to move! 🧡❤️💚

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How luxe to have these blooms at your front door. How great that the front door is to a basement apartment and adjacent to the sidewalk where I can stroll by! [Yes, I’m ALMOST strolling!]

Continuing with the week’s theme of construction projects…I saw this scene this morning and thought: the neighbors are getting their new driveway made today!

Then in the afternoon, trucks and men and equipment gone, but no concrete setting up—frames were empty! Found out the load was not to spec—and the second one sent back for the SAME REASON! They’re to try again on Monday morning. Here’s to success!

In the meantime, the neighbors must climb a ladder to their front porch to enter the house. Stalwart neighbors. And limber.

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These are tiny, delicate blooms in a lovely shade of kinda-pink. That’s an official color name IMHO.

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Out earlier than I have been—after I heard afternoon temps were to reach the low 80s. LOW 80s!!

Found another local construction project—a new roof. Big pile of plywood I assume was the roof decking (with a few shingle bits attached), but in strange squarish rectangles, not the standard 4×8 size, but looked about 3 and a half by 4 or so. Seemed strange.

I certainly would love that porch if I was living in that upstairs apartment…with a roof.

I have no title ideas. I was going to do “Late,” as if it would be clever that would have a different meaning for each picture…something along the lines of late azalea, not early; and late roof, as in used to be a roof…kinda—see doesn’t work….

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