Musings

We were going to take a steam-train today. Then, the weather looked worse today than tomorrow, so we switched to Sunday.

Then, the train people cancelled—too much rain expected along the tracks. And it’s supposed to be worse east of here, especially in South Carolina—and that’s without a Joaquin landfall. We’re, of course, hoping the wind stays…minimal.

Love the unexpected color of the beauty-bush berries.

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Looking out

We made a late-afternoon, spontaneous drop-in trip to the BotGarden, and found rain lilies. At least, I think I read the label that corresponds to this flower. Looks like a spring bulb-bloom…but it sure isn’t spring! (It’s a Zephyranthes spp. in the Amaryllis family.)

The autumnal season is confirmed by the lineup of Halloween creatures just inside the drop-gate at the garden…ready for distribution throughout the display areas. Not sure what this one is. They often have clever names; we’ll have to return and find out what this one’s is.

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Sorry to go on about the weather, but the sun hasn’t been out from maybe five? days…someone ran this excavator long enough to need on of those giant plates to keep the street open (right, out of photo). Guess today’s rain kept the crew from closing up the rawness. It is soggy out there….

Here’s the fungal side effect of all this rain we’ve been “enjoying”…and have several days more ahead of us….

Posted at 8:23 PM | Comments Off on Sodden and soaked

The rainy season is full upon us…and the critters of the outdoors. Sometimes it lets up, and sometimes it’s just a mist. So far, I haven’t noticed a hard rain in the last few days of precip. More is expected….

Another effect of the weather is that the latest round of blossoms—and the autumnal leaves—are dropping.

Still, I’ve been persistent and gotten out. (My hair’s a cloud of humidity-reaction.)

Posted at 7:51 PM | Comments Off on Trudging along

I’m not sure what these are/this is. My mind replays The Botanist’s voice saying “ornamental crabs,” by which he meant crabapples. Except I keep wondering if the ornamental varieties would have fruit? Kinda defeats the purpose of ornamentalizing?

Anyway, fancy new phone has fancy camera…qualitatively better, I think.

Only…

If today is a true sample of reality, I can’t continue to listen to the TUNE-IN app and take a photo at the same time…when the camera becomes live, the app goes mute.

Posted at 10:30 PM | Comments Off on More data needed

I got out when it wasn’t raining, just intermittent misting. Someone hacked back this Datura over a month ago, but it has recovered and is blooming again.

This is my last daily photo with what has become, as of 4:30pm, the old phone. Yes, I’m now a 6s gal. Yes, rose gold. Pretty cool!

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Rejuvenating

I think this is birdhouse art, somewhat like a (Philip Johnson) Glass House, better as art than as a dwelling, at least in the city.

Okra is taxonomically* related to cotton, cacao, hollyhock, and hibiscus. The hibiscus relationship is obvious, although it looks nothing like a cacao bloom (to me, a non-botanist).

* Cladistics are…quite the brain-tease.

Posted at 8:40 PM | Comments Off on Floral profusion

I struggled to be happy with today’s crop of images when I went through them to make a selection…4U. Just low pizzazz levels. The only sign of life: this bee—and s/he may be permanently parked on this sprig of lavender. Until gravity takes over. (Never moved, like the other BigBee and the honey bees that were actively buzzing the lavender.)

I do find my eye straying to the contrasting colors of the new and old growth on this Oregon grape…along with the lattice/matrix of the not-wrought-iron fence. Still…it’s a milquetoast photo.

Soooo, snapshots of the day.

Posted at 9:31 PM | Comments Off on Snapshots

Encountered tourists when leaving the bakery. They were “swimming against the tide” coming in the “wrong” door. Eating ice cream. Must be tourists. Or from Cobb County.

Nothing much to this shot, but my mind keeps coming back to it…the very different shadow-shapes of the ivy and grass.

Yeah, foliage is just leaves, and not mushrooms. Vegetation would be more appropriate. But too many syllables. And that is all.

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Placid foliage

Just a software upgrade…and yet the agree/disagree text reads like a typical oblique 21st-century fortune-cookie-fortune.

My bit of wisdom today, or my attempt at that: this world is as entwined and interlaced as these magnolia roots.

Posted at 5:48 PM | Comments Off on Wordy and knotty