Thursday, 29 May 2025
Across the orchard, almost all the blossoms opened, and some of the petals began to fall in the late-day breeze.
With even better scent, the lilacs began to open.
In non-vegetation news, I was out just before the the sun descended…I didn’t stay to photo the setting.
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
These tracks were in the water this morning the whole length of “our beach.” Big, so perhaps a great blue?
Also, it’s forget-me-not season. I’ve been unable to take a shot that’s in focus until this one—which is close.
Here’re the ferns by the door, but the view from the cottage into the yard.
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
We headed to Manistique to have a better grocery selection than are offered at nearer stores, and began our adventure with lunch, followed by a stroll on the boardwalk (mostly paved) along the Lake Michigan shore to look at the lighthouse. It’s rather stubby and unprepossessing; good thing it’s painted red.
And just to the left, moments after the photo above, I caught a gull taking flight. Look! No horizon in the background, and this was merely perhaps an angle of 40° different.
Next stop: groceries. I guess a version of the shopping-after-lunch plan was in the air, as we saw both parties that were eating when we arrived at the lunch place at the grocery place. Great minds? (Snort; I don’t think so, just restocking after a long holiday weekend.)
Back at the ranch, I got the grocs put up, then headed out to check on the lake and just wander about. The barberries next to the cottage are in bloom. Indeed, we watched a (smallish, dark) hummingbird busy with the flowers just yesterday.
I checked the lupin pair pictured yesterday, and the development is noticeable. This is about 30 hrs after the previous photo.
I just went out to close up the entry porch, and realized the buckets I put out to drain and dry now seem to be a convention. I used the buckets to water in the new top-dressing I added to the rhubarb in the bed I created last fall down at the stone house. The plants’re small, yet doing well, and all survived (a major coup).
Monday, 26 May 2025
I postulate that this is one of last year’s spotty fawns. It hangs with about five others, and they all have this tawny color at present. I think it hasn’t lost all its winter fur. I got to enjoy watching this visitor’s slow progress around the cottage as I sipped my first cuppa coffee (photo through screen, cancha tell?).
The lake was so still this morning; this was 8:20am.
Mid-afternoon, I found this lupin with just the barest bit of purple showing. Also, around the orchard are many more buds than I saw three days ago.
Sunday, 25 May 2025
Backlit leaves, aglow.
Ferns and ramps (wide angle).
Siberian apple; polinator tree, not for eating. More of the apple trees are blooming.
Backlit pear, sure to be heavy with fruit.
The woods, an hour after the backlit pear, so the opposite direction,. The opposite word/phrase—is it fully-lit?
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
What is the statement of the day based on this image, I was thinking a few minutes ago. Hmm.
A bee crawls through a milkweed quite without effort? Too simplistic.
Orange and green are my new favorite color pairing? Yeesh, who would believe that.
Garden life is captivating? I’ll take that.
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
As I did several months ago, JCB recently received a juror summons. He was in group 3, so we thought he might have to appear, and was to call in last night to find out if he had to show up downtown today. No groups were called, he found out, and he got to sleep in.
I was gonna try something about “barking up the wrong tree,” but…pfft, I couldn’t make it sing, rock, or rumble in any pleasant way.
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
I do enjoy some of the dramatic creations of the “Portrait / stage light” settings (although others are dreck).
Monday, 12 May 2025
I came back from being at Book Club, a short stroll well after dark set in, and…redolent. That’s the word. Our front steps were awash in the scent of gardenias. Here’s a night shot, which definitely needed white balancing to look correct.
