Living in the undamp
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
I’mma doin’ fine…yet, thoughts of lakeside moments invaded my mind’s eye. Okay, lemme accept being down here in the Deep South where we’re in a drought.
Musings
Day? Night?
Monday, 20 October 2025
My body clock is utterly confused by the daylength…still trying to adjust after our migration to the south.
BTW, that’s a very early morning night sky that the camera makes look like strange daytime.
Pricey fakes
Sunday, 19 October 2025
We went out erranding and I discovered that I could buy fake spiderwebs for $6 per package, plus tax. If I were interested….
Autumnal changes
Saturday, 18 October 2025
So, midmorning I swept the balcony free of leaves. At 3pm I looked out and found a new crop had recolonized it. I’m looking at you tulip poplars. [Not this taxus, or whatever it is.]
Translation day
Thursday, 16 October 2025
I had this with my coffee and thought, gee whiz, there’s something to post here. Perhaps. [Mitad means half in Spanish.]
But, this is better. We began a new series of evening TV watching. We sometimes use our choices to be a kind of travelogue, or travel abroad that doesn’t require a passport. This choice is “Hotel Costiera,” set in Positano, on the southern Amalfi Coast. So far, there’s not much food in it; drinks, yes, but little chow. [Not ciao.] Pleasant. Entertaining. Mostly in English.
No-milk scalloping
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Is there a functional reason for the scalloped edges? Are edges more important than middles to the plant somehow (it’s counter-intuitive to me)? Do herbivores tend to avoid the leaves because they assume they are already nibbled?
Two critter stories
Monday, 13 October 2025
Today, I found an anole indoors. Does this happen every autumn? Something like that. I gently captured it and released it outdoors. Good outcome. [I am mystified as to how they get inside.]
Last week, on our way up to Lake Superior, we were slow-motoring on a sand road through the visual mosaic of leaf color and sun-n-shade when what should appear on the hood just past the wipers but a mouse. It must have come from an open area at the base of the wipers. Up on the hood, it had little traction, and I hit the brakes hard and zip, it flew off the hood forwards, and I saw it run into the ditch to the left. Another good outcome.
Bits
Sunday, 12 October 2025
I liked the colorful early sky, even with the mist on our hotel room’s window.
The morning was quite clear, however, as we continued to avoid the interstates. We encountered a fog bank that continued for several miles southwest of Lebanon, KY.
Later, we found a stunning view of the Sequatchie Valley just east of Dunlap, TN. Below center is what I think is called a parafoil (a huge kite, blue-green in this case).
We mostly took back roads today, like yesterday. This was also true in the greater Atlanta area, where traffic snaggles were abundant. JCB knew assorted back ways that had few vehicles, in contrast to the choked main roads.
So glad to be home, although our time in the UP was exceptional and the drive was lovely.