Musings

Careful scrutiny

Colorful dawn

What a gorgeous dawn! Hate the neighbors’ McMansion dominates our early-day viewshed.

Hellebore buds

Hellebore buds. I understand that hellebore/lenten rose breeders have even developed dark shades.

Loropetalum not fringetree

I think of this as fringetree—wrong. It’s in the witch-hazel family, and is called Loropetalum. I certainly don’t scrutinize specimens closely enough to gauge botanical taxonomy.