Musings

Cement cat statue and pale pumpkin, both on a long landscaping stone imitating a ledge, plus a tamarack draping over it all, with abundant pinestraw decoration…qualifies as a tableau to me.

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The household part-time hunter-gather brought in steaming hot pizzas for us this evening [not plucked from a pizza tree!]. While he was out I grated these parm curls for…accessorizing?!

This was one of those funny-weather days when the temp dropped steadily all day—seems like it’s against nature. I hear we’re under or suffering an atmospheric river….

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This is from the other day when it was sunny, as today “an atmospheric river runs through it”…which means we had intermittent rain and ongoing murkiness.

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I took a walk and discovered preparations underway for an influx of weekend visitors. Welcome to WinterFest!

Bring your wallet and make our shopkeepers happy…amenities provided (💩 possibilities).

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Somehow I managed a ten-minute I’m-in-the-city stroll this morning. The sun balanced the cool temp beautifully.

The presentation would have been better if I’d taken the time to remove the keystoning (?: keystone effect), but you get the original.

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Privet is an invasive species here. This specimen is on its way to recreating the hedge that was on this property-line, and may manage to reestablish itself.

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I’m heartened to see this magnolia awaiting the arrival of the spring awakening.

On the other hand, this pansy is living in the present.

Title refers to lame alliterations in each sentence.

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Acorns or oak-horns. With what we kids called hats and botanists call cupules. Way back then, I put an acorn hat on a Barbie; she was a forest creature, not a pink city gal.

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New coffee shop in the neighborhood…. I don’t get how there’s the least bit favorable association between ash and either coffee or pastries.

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Dense fog obscured the sunrise, and the camera’s algorithms (algorhythms?) did too! I found it more misty and mysterious than shown here.

And the ginko drop happened…at least for this tree. I didn’t do a survey and make sure it was all specimens, as is characteristic.

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