Musings

The weedy onions are rising and pollen (not shown) is adrift.

Posted at 10:20 PM | Comments Off on Burgeoning plants

Moss-world is flourishing these days, including on this aging wall of decaying concrete.

Posted at 8:28 PM | Comments Off on Small world

A lovely dawn-sky…

…heralded a sunny day.

Posted at 9:14 PM | Comments Off on Warming week

I managed to insert my walk between spates of rain. I’ve been seeing that the Magnolia liliiflora are blooming here and there. I finally spotted one I could approach with my camera (aka phone).

On the home front, the camellia decorations on the hood of the car continue…not so pretty when the blooms are freeze-fading, but still artful.

Posted at 6:40 PM | Comments Off on Bloomins

We went out to do an errand and discovered that a squirrel had been feeding on the camellia bud hearts above the car. Is that the floral equivalent of maple sap-syrup?

Posted at 9:29 PM | Comments Off on Early spring diets

Plants can be so resilient! These perked right up and got to the business of being a successful plant (flowering, seed creation), toot-sweet after the last two weekends of distinctly winter weather.

Posted at 9:38 PM | Comments Off on Pollen!

Now that the ice storm and the snow storm have passed, budding has begun.

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Yellow gold

Ice is today’s headline. That means rain plus freezing temps. And the supercold (super = wayyyyy below freezing) rolls in overnight, and will linger for days, a week, maybe more. That’s an uber-cold-snap in these parts.

So far, we’re okay here, and very lucky, IMHO, as we still have electricity and internet and phone services.

Posted at 8:59 PM | Comments Off on Camellia micro-eco-story

This was the last time we had pretty sunshine. Today, our mayor said “you’re not going to be able to snowman” because this is an ice storm. Yeah, ice and snow, neither are common here in ATL.

Posted at 9:09 PM | Comments Off on To snowman, or not to…

The cold got to this camellia, so that the petals are leathery and subdued in color, yet pollen production continues.

Posted at 9:07 PM | Comments Off on Persistence