Musings

Last night was night one of having the AC on. And something like 30 inches of snow are expected less than one thousand miles north of here. A yikes-ian contrast.

Meanwhile (hey, this word was around before Stephen Colbert!), we got a tad of precip overnight…as these Mahonia berries(?) show.

And the Japanese maples are responding to the heat and growing queeeeeeekleeee.

Rather taken with the fragment of lichen on this spiderwort. Nice shadows, too.

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The parking payment-pods are still shrouded, and now the signs are gone; the posts are lone and unembellished (far right). I conclude: parking remains free!

Found this bloomer, and can’t quite remember the name…time to head to the BotGarden for a refresher?

I think these are oak sex parts. Kinda. Oak anyway. In the autumn, leaves fall; in the spring, it tends to be other parts.

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Nascent spring: peony version.

Fading spring: bluebell version.

Capital improvement…failure: water department version. A crew just fixed this.

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Again: lots of overnight rain. (White iris this time.)

Enough rain to wash this garbage can out into the street. (I moved it to the sidewalk.)

Down the street in the last shot, a Sunday-quiet construction zone. (Never figured out what the hose was for.)

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Wet iris. Yesterday. Just puddling.

Dry iris. Today. Wearing lady-bugs.

Delicate, feathery iris. The champ.

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Overnight rain created this pool…

and washed the pollen downstream. The air smelled almost clean-pristine, almost because the plants are continuing to pump out the pollen…

so we headed for the mountains. Where the clouds still bedecked the ridges…

another hour later, and clear skies!

To you!

By dusk, we had a great view of Mount Yonah. That’s not the moon, just the reflection of a ceiling light.

And now I will transition to bed…yawn.

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I wasn’t going to “do” flowers today, but these two charmed me back to my long-time favorite theme.

See! Charming-pretty!

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We’ve had baseball’s opening day, now we’re awaiting opening day for the revised, revamped, and rebuilt-from-the-ground-up BeltLine Kroger. Must be nearing as the signage is up!

Down in the pool in O4W park, the fake geyser was off and the turtles had made the nozzle and it rock island their own. Good sign the pool has turtles! Means there’s sufficient turtle food, no?

Today’s flower-foto…wisteria.

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The power washing saga continues; we’re doing a bit at a time. And the crud levels are high! More awaits, however.

The parking narcing shrouds remain in place.

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See that black mini-monolith off to the right? That’s a shrouded parking narcing machine. All the machines in our neighborhood were sporting them today…which means:

Free parking!

Pretty expensive to buy all those shrouds and send a crew around tying them on. Must be a business deal negotiation snafu and not an April Fools’ hoax—my bet, anyway.

Have you ever seen this edge detail on pine straw? I watched a guy do it several years back, a nice little flick of the wrists after he caught the errant needles with a shovel. I think it’s to keep the pine straw neater, but also to give them an edge that the yard-guys can preserve when they use a mower and blower.

Culture today, and no flower. Heh.

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