Musings

Today was sunny and windy, which is pretty much all you need to know to deduce this photo is from the other day.

Posted at 11:00 PM | Comments Off on Coming up roses

I do find my eye drawn to mini-worlds. Here’s a Liriodendron tulipifera creating its own micro-world…a safe place to germinate and try to get established despite serious canopy shade, modest amounts of soil, and irregular dog urine deposits.

Title phrase is “stolen/borrowed” from the WikiPee article on this tree species.

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The English word avocado etymologically traces to the Nahuatl (“Aztec”) āhuacatl also written auacatl. The spelling is different, but the sounds are more similar. That final -tl is tricky. We English speakers tend to stick a vowel sound between them. Nope. It’s slightly easier for me to eliminate the vowel temptation by starting with tl- in practice. Still, -tl without a vowel sound is against the customary English sound patterns.

It’s better to learn a language by listening rather than reading/writing, I think….

Posted at 9:50 PM | Comments Off on Fruity thoughts

My horticulturally talented neighbor-ess has both acid (blue) and base/neutral (pink) soil under this bush. Also, the chemical soup requires aluminum, I’ve read. You’ll have to look it up yourself, if you want more details.

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No stormy around here…all sunny and humid.

Posted at 9:57 PM | Comments Off on Hello, summer

We’re approaching the cusp of summer. I say approaching because there’s still a spring green tinge to the tree-leaves.

Posted at 9:30 PM | Comments Off on Viridescence

One of the possible tags I have selected for my posts is “architecture.” How can it not be eye-catching…especially large interior spaces of which this is an example.

Posted at 10:19 PM | Comments Off on Too tired to be coherent

Our neighbor grew up outside of Lexington and has a party every year guess when. I love the juleps and fresh mint the best. All I can tell about the horse race this year is that it was a photo-finish…if they haven’t replaced that technology and thus the phrase.

Our hostess is quite the gardener, and my plant ID app thinks this is a bellflower. It don’t know what it is, but I’m pretty sure it is not a bellflower.

Posted at 8:37 PM | Comments Off on Not in KY

We had several hours with my brother today. He was here for meetings downtown. He said he’d like to get outdoors and walk a bit before the hours he’d be spending sitting in a plane returning to SEA. So, we took him to Piedmont Park (not original, but almost always rewarding), where we found lunch and some off-white plant specimens.

The upper photo is of a long hydrangea bloom, its weight bringing it horizontal. This one is what I think is cottonwood “cotton”…with a slightly green tinge.

We had a grand time, and also saw ducks and geese and turtles, a few dogs, and many people strolling and generally enjoying the afternoon. Just as we did.

Posted at 8:47 PM | Comments Off on Off-white

I spotted the first blooming dogwood I’ve noticed this year…

…and this reminded me of a European scenario.

Posted at 8:11 PM | Comments Off on Of note