Title creation exercise
Sunday, 11 November 2018
Bird droppings.
Mums of gold.
What are your proposed titles? I give mine a solid B, collectively, mostly because of the first one.
Musings
Roses, hypotheses
Saturday, 10 November 2018
Winter roses, so decorative. Or merely autumnal?
There’s evidence of a project gone awry. That vine has been twining for months to get that high! Or was the ladder placed for the vine and not for a chore?
Wide Load Day?
Tuesday, 6 November 2018
We were on the move again today, and finally got out of the weather system we were in, and into sunshine! Brilliant sunshine! And colorful leaves.
It wasn’t all sunshine, and this was during one of the cloudy stretches. We saw many semis, and what seemed to us to be lots of oversize/wide loads. This load was a bi-lobed molded swimming pool; this is the end view.
Was it actually Wide Load Day, and we thought it was only Election Day?
I’m proud of everyone who voted in today’s election! Truly.
Squint
Saturday, 27 October 2018
Way at the end of this breakwater(?) is a navigation light. [Squint. And use your imagination?]
From what I have read these white pines were logged in the 1830s and 1840s—a darned long time ago. After the trees were cut and the logs removed, the remaining slash dried and burned, often with very hot fires leaving the already nutrient-poor sandy soils even more nutrient poor. Even today: rotting stumps and no forest.
Common color theme by accident
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
My hypothesis is that this is a new-pole crew, as there were not only the two bucket-trucks with guys working on the wires, but also another big truck with a giant auger (put away at this point, and parked down the block). I also saw a big pickup that was part of the crew—the boss?
This scenario is easier to figure out: verge ghosties.
And for those wanting a flower-fix: a bi-color camellia. With an ant and another insect (mostly obscured).
Streetworthy
Sunday, 21 October 2018
Body by tape.* It’s not the GM way, but it might work for you.
From a quick perusal of the company website, this is a pedal/motorized hybrid that may have solar panels. Maybe not so safe in urban traffic. Or around large, wild quadrupeds, either.
* Since Fisher is long gone.
Three pairs
Friday, 19 October 2018
I liked this pair; I hope they were handmade by residents of the house, but maybe they were just strung up locally, yet crafted in a distant place. If the latter, just what did the makers think of these odd “dolls.”
At this house, the residents frequently decorate their “Midnight in the Garden…” statue (copy) for an upcoming holiday. The skull trays are a new one on me; I’ll pass on that appetizer!
With a small bout of finger-mixing while typing that title I realized for the first time that Paris and pairs are anagrams. Just trying to catch up with youall who I’m sure are way ahead of me, folks.
Halloween flamingoes
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
I guess once you have shelves of flamingo molds, you just get some black plastic melties and, presto, time to market black flamingoes…Halloween’s latest scary critter!
And, if you’re very patriotic, include a flag in your Halloween yard decorations! Huzzah and yay, Estados Unidos de América!
Signs
Friday, 12 October 2018
Softening the blow?
Post-Michael we’re in a cool spell—truly cool, overnights in the low 50s. All of a sudden, the season-change is revealed. Yet, I see the azalea out front is giving the spring cycle one more belated go.
You shop; I’ll walk
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
The Hubby had some man-shopping to do at the HumDepoh, so I took advantage of their AC and wide aisles to get some rain-free steps in. Win-win!
For a few moments, I went through the garden center (outdoors! can’t do that at IKEA!), and in the back I looked up and saw a huge water tank, filled from rainfall piped down from the roof! Great corporate decision to use that precious liquid that otherwise would go directly in the sewers on the garden center plants. [Well, then some of it goes in the sewers, but not all.]
I suspect that tank is full. We’re getting good rain from outer bands of Michael, and have been off and on for a while. Fortunately for us, the worst weather will be south of us. Whew!