Musings

We had only maybe one hundred people show today, but we were strong! In the background, against the building…five minutes later there were three cops and four building security guys. Just standing there in dark uniforms or suit-jackets, shoulders back, shields glistening, eyes obscured by dark, dark-glasses. Chatting, watching, mostly just being present (none eating lunch this time, although the lunch-guy was in the mix). Reports you have heard of aggressive behavior by this group—are as false (alternate) as the talk that we’re paid to appear.

A bit of antidote-energy. Love these red, red tulips we saw the other day at the BotGarden. They’re getting rained on right now. Earlier, when we were downtown on the sidewalk, the rain sprinkled for maybe three minutes, then quit.

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We sampled “Cardinal” tonight. It’s something like “Fortitude” without the sci-fi flavors (at least so far), and with a soupçon of “Broadchurch” and “The Tunnel”—set in Canada. Northish Ontario. So—cold, winter weather gets to be a character.

Oh, and we washed the new buggy. Pollen season is already beginning…. And this is a shrub honeysuckle. Not many blooms left, but they still are odiferous. In a (relatively) good way.

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So, GooEarth was…malfunctioning. I got the Guru involved (whine). He checked this and that and determined that I was suffering DNS problems. So, now I have a new Thang to check when…”refreshing” is failing….

In the larger world, specialists imploded the Georgia Archives building today (my taxes take a hit). And I understand many factions in WashDC are demanding investigations of this and that (more allocations of my taxes that do not benefit education, the environment, etc.).

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The white hyacinth is hanging on, unfazed (not un-phased) by weather irregularities.

What does Celtic mean to you? Other than a sports team…. I use it to refer to common elements of material culture. Not language. Not beliefs. Not an ethnic group. Jessayin.

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They’re early, these daffies, and holding their own (storms, heat, cold, variable weather).

Azalea.

Soft focus here equals unsteady hands of the photog.

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Our weather yesterday evening was rainy and windy, but not awful. We got lucky.

I still didn’t sleep well, though.

This kind of shot is supposed to focus on the bud, and I admit that is what I was trying for, but the rosette of leaves is equally interesting, especially with the backlighting.

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That line of storms that devastated places to our WNW is coming though now, fingers crossed, as rain. And wind. We’ll see how our blooms and buds do.

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Over at the BotGarden, we saw several busy people, including this guy watering in the food-garden. I can vouch for the fact that it is easier to collect your tools if there’s orange (or other bright-colored) paint on the handle or somewhere.

This winter green is putting out new leaves. The Garden’s chef was wandering this area to select tasty bits for the restaurant kitchen.

The gnarly margins of these orchids still surprise me. I don’t know if MaNachur made this, or an orchid enthusiast (person) bred it. Perhaps a bit of both?

And, interviewing at our demonstration, Charles Barkley. Yes, THE. [Professional basketball players: tall.] Apparently he’s making a documentary series. I declined to sign the legal paper and get photographed with it (thereby linking face and name), so I’ll be a fuzzed out face in the background…if I’m not edited out.

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Sometimes I find a photo subject, maybe backlit like this hyacinth. I kneel, I try several angles, and I feel that I do okay, but maybe could do more….

And then, with the macro-lens, I get very close, and the same subject becomes totally different. Or mostly different.

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This winter the weather’s flip-flopped. We’re in a warm spell that is something like 15°F warmer than the average. We’ve gone both ways recently. I think these camellia blossoms got going on a relatively normal schedule, in late December/early January. Then, a cold(er) snap tinged them brown, then it warmed again and here they are. But not hardy, so they easily succumb to gravity.

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