Musings
Sometime after midnight the rain started. I figure it rained, sometimes a lot until well after dawn (obscured by rain clouds), then off and on through the morning. This bucket was empty when it got dark last night. I tried a keep-the-phone-safe photo, attempting to use my feet for scale. Hrrumph. Not a big success. So, I headed off on my walk.
When I returned, I got serious about science and measurement. That’s an honest measurement—almost six inches of rain accumulated in this bucket since last night. That’s a darned lot of rain. Glad we live closer to the hilltop than any valley drainage.
Okay. Flowers from our traffic island. I don’t thank my neighbors who care for this area enough. Or help them…I COULD do that.
Posted at 7:14 PM |
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You might argue that these two offer…
…colors for a different holiday than the upcoming one. Still Christian, however.
Posted at 7:56 PM |
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The Île de la Cité will never be the same. The gargoyles are still coughing (I’m pretty sure).
Posted at 6:18 PM |
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Always seems like a triumph to set out to do a list (short, but still) of errands, and to get them all accomplished without any real fuss or delay. Yay!
Posted at 7:51 PM |
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Ya gotta know that if we go to the BotGarden, we check out the Frog Baby and look for frogs in the pool. Yes, they’re back from winter break; there’s one eyeing a statue frog!
And we check out the Goddess. Still waiting for new plant-plugs. This poor fellow is working against the spring waterfall of plant detritus threatening to clog her pools. Keeps him employed!
Totally different pond/pool, and different story. Shape and color variation is pure eye-candy. Plant eye-candy, that is.
Okay; floral fun. I don’t know what this is, but I call it super-chive.
Brings a different meaning to the phrase “bird-watching.” [Bird spotted by the Guru.]
Posted at 5:52 PM |
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Last night was night one of having the AC on. And something like 30 inches of snow are expected less than one thousand miles north of here. A yikes-ian contrast.
Meanwhile (hey, this word was around before Stephen Colbert!), we got a tad of precip overnight…as these Mahonia berries(?) show.
And the Japanese maples are responding to the heat and growing queeeeeeekleeee.
Rather taken with the fragment of lichen on this spiderwort. Nice shadows, too.
Posted at 6:54 PM |
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The parking payment-pods are still shrouded, and now the signs are gone; the posts are lone and unembellished (far right). I conclude: parking remains free!
Found this bloomer, and can’t quite remember the name…time to head to the BotGarden for a refresher?
I think these are oak sex parts. Kinda. Oak anyway. In the autumn, leaves fall; in the spring, it tends to be other parts.
Posted at 6:46 PM |
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Nascent spring: peony version.
Fading spring: bluebell version.
Capital improvement…failure: water department version. A crew just fixed this.
Posted at 8:31 PM |
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Again: lots of overnight rain. (White iris this time.)
Enough rain to wash this garbage can out into the street. (I moved it to the sidewalk.)
Down the street in the last shot, a Sunday-quiet construction zone. (Never figured out what the hose was for.)
Posted at 7:08 PM |
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Wet iris. Yesterday. Just puddling.
Dry iris. Today. Wearing lady-bugs.
Delicate, feathery iris. The champ.
Posted at 7:49 PM |
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