Musings

Open not-sesame

The sun creates a super-pretty radiance.

Display in white

Mediocre photo…but I’m liking sunlight better than flash.

Show time

Trying flash again, on the azalea display.

Temp cycling

A pretty and lovely day that I enjoyed (weeding). A cold spell is behind us, and a hot spell is coming.

(S)pring progress

Phlox

The pollen is here with the phlox. They both start with Ps, but not the same sound.

Springing

I think this cold snap is over as far as overnights below freezing, so this pair should make it.

Done

I got it! Not a golden man statue, but a viola/violet photo.

Flocks of phlox

I swear that five days ago this plant didn’t even have buds…at least in a casual glance.

We have to have caught up our rainfall deficit a bit the last few days. I got this basil cluster to plant and failed to do so before the deluge, but it might not have been any better off if I had.

Plant snippets

Pansies are a winter flower in these parts, and we’re coming to the end of pansy season.

BTW, I learned the other day of ensete/enset (Ensete ventricosum), which is the principal traditional starch food of Ethiopia (for 20 million folks) and neighboring lands across eastern Africa. It’s in the banana family, and it looks like a banana plant. And I had never heard of it.