Musings

Looks like it might be a dead lake, but there’s a fine fishy…in the algae (pronounce fishy and algae to rhyme, plz). S/he’s toward the back, a horizontal grey shape with a dark shadow.

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I knew about the old blue Chevy (historic!) in front of us, and I was trying to capture the reflection. I didn’t know about the bike-lane logo until I saw the photo long after we had crossed the Ohio and were driving deep in Indiana.

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I’m proud of how this clean-out-the-fridge dinner turned out. Frozen pizza (cheese with arugula from TJs, and some prosciutto), plus veggies instead of salad (onion, garlic, red pepper, and spinach, sautéed together). With a topper of extra parm and snipped fresh basil.

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I so lean in to pretty flowers…well, flowers in general.

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Went to the mall on a (kinda) emergency mission. The mall still feels like a dangerous space to me. I don’t trust that darned Covid, even the versions floating around these days.

No new devices, or even one device came home with us. Just a cable and a plug that will enable me to charge my phone while in the car. My phone is cranky, and requires lotsa power to charge (unlike my spouse’s, the same model bought at the same time). Once we figured that out, or the Apple Geniuses did, and now we have a new cigarette lighter plug and a new cable; it’s a combo that my phone respects.

What a fancy Apple store.

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Today’s front came through with audio drama…wind and noisy, plopping raindrops.

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Remembering a gorgeous sunset viewed through the dunes at the Oregon coast well before the current heat wave.

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No symbolism here. No subtle message.

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Once again, my ignorance is revealed as vast. Magnolia grandiflora, and I think this is a specimen, is native to southeastern North America, although perhaps south of this actual location. [Or is it Magnolia virginiana; I get confused.] Still, it’s generally local and native. But perhaps that qualification means that it is an ornamental and non-local. Ah, horticultural fine points.

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I especially enjoy evergreens; they are so bold through the winter blahs. I am pleasantly surprised to see the berries this early in the season. Or maybe I’m just ignorant of the pacing of the juniper growth patterns.

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