Roses, hypotheses
Saturday, 10 November 2018
Winter roses, so decorative. Or merely autumnal?
There’s evidence of a project gone awry. That vine has been twining for months to get that high! Or was the ladder placed for the vine and not for a chore?
Musings
Orange/pink day
Thursday, 8 November 2018
I have never grown dahlias, and I do like them. They remind me of oversized starflowers (aka star flowers).
My conclusion when I saw this was that inflatable beasties can be afflicted with Seasonal Affective Disorder.
I didn’t intend an orange/pink color theme, but lookee there!
Accidental scientist
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
This morning I thought: I’ll walk this afternoon after I get some chores (especially laundry) finished.
Then, I heard that drippy noise that means rain. Ooooops.
After dark I realized that I didn’t have a photo for the day. Another ooooops! Then, outdoors, I had my phone flashlight on and saw (and smelled! inhale! enjoy!) a new crop of ginger flowers, and decided to take a night photo. Oh, I wondered, can I take a picture with the flashlight on? However, when I went over to the camera app, the light went out (pretty sure). Crappy photo yielded new data! Yay!
Wide Load Day?
Tuesday, 6 November 2018
We were on the move again today, and finally got out of the weather system we were in, and into sunshine! Brilliant sunshine! And colorful leaves.
It wasn’t all sunshine, and this was during one of the cloudy stretches. We saw many semis, and what seemed to us to be lots of oversize/wide loads. This load was a bi-lobed molded swimming pool; this is the end view.
Was it actually Wide Load Day, and we thought it was only Election Day?
I’m proud of everyone who voted in today’s election! Truly.
Big transition
Monday, 5 November 2018
A bit drippy, not quite full rainy, and not really cold-cold…tolerable to close up the cottage for the year.
We agreed that Lake Michigan, with waves pounding on the rip-rap and throwing up spray, and the grey skies above, looked like winter is not far off. [Plus the weather prediction indicated ❄️ for Friday. Yikes!]
Murky skies continued in the Lower Peninsula; then, eventually, it got dark, and we can’t watch the sky any longer. Roads are dry, however….
Plans in motion, beginning
Sunday, 4 November 2018
On my way to capture this golden sunrise…
…I saw ice on top of the water barrel.
Not too much later, the clouds rolled in and the sun became a bright spot behind the grey-blue, and late in the afternoon, which would have been a different time yesterday, the rain blew in.
So, time to mobilize. But, let’s round up odds and end first, and finish the closing activities tomorrow.
A fine day
Saturday, 3 November 2018
We had overcast this morning. All things considered, it wasn’t bad out, just not bright.
Then, the sky cleared and, whew!, lovely. Solar gain even made the porch toasty, so I read out there for a while.
Meanwhile, inside, the wood stove was cranking (there is no slow or super-slow setting), and it was beyond toasty. In a good way.
We even made a quick run to the PO (Amazon Prime in the hinterlands only goes so far—sometimes—and yet sometimes they deliver to the house via brown—a curious variation?), and to the groc store—yoghurt needed!
Another tour of The Place
Friday, 2 November 2018
Different grass grows in the well-watered swale, compared to the rest of the field.
Even smaller beings than these shelf fungi and the green, green moss are in the process of breaking down this stump. Dead-wood is becoming high-nutrient organic matter* in the soil.
Today’s lake view photo. Light off-shore breeze means quiet waters.
* “Organic matter” was a favorite phrase of the Botanist.
Sunny moments
Thursday, 1 November 2018
While roaming today, I ventured into our woods. Here’s the view from the bluff across the likely-to-have-poison-ivy flats toward the lake.
The low angle of the sun means the opposite, 180° view is totally different. Almost bland in comparison, but actually quite interesting in the detail. Most of these trees are maples. I think.
And today’s selected lake-view shot, across the tree-root art.
Rather nippy today (the sunshine you see in these shots was intermittent), so we have a fire in the stove. An internet search suggests it’s a coal furnace, so maybe that’s why it sometimes can be ticklish, tricky, and vexing to burn wood. Anyway, see the smoke? We are toasty; it got up to 89°, but is cooling now—just a pleasant 83° at neck height, less if you’re sitting. As I am.
Over and out.