Musings

The Guru took BigCam* out for some fresh air and brought me lovely photos of our blazing azaleas out front. And a large denizen!

…has interchangeable lenses…is not pocket-sized.

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The second lily bud is open! Nine await!

And the back of the house smells…of lily.

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By rights, today’s photo should be of the FEL, that is, Fine Experimental Lasagne. Used béchamel sauce, not ricotta. Used roasted eggplant cubes not spinach. Used red peppers not (quantities of) chopped onion.

(Yes!) Yum.

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Thanks, D!

These lovely flowers are tough to shoot, especially as today when I had an armload of groceries….

Oh, the cough…now taking cough medicine (flavor has NOT changed since I was a child), with a chaser of bourbon come evening…and things got worse as…you don’t want to know…and now, fingers crossed, improvement….

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I’ve been fighting this cough, you don’t want the details. Today, it seems to be diminishing…slightly but that’s the trend….

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This year the white azaleas opened several days ahead of these.

The miniature plants (just low-growing) have almost died, so they don’t count (small-normal flowers, though). What to replace them with? Wonder if there are low-profile gardenias?

Or I could reorganize the planting areas…whatever, it’s a shady area.

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Viburnum?

I brought these in, a casualty of trimming back the now-aggressive Cherokee rose*, and other nearby woody shrubs.

While the Guru brought the wildness back under control, I shifted to the front garden, finally getting the plants we bought last week into the ground. Two kinds of basil, two of tomatoes (heirloom and an early variety), and one pepper (not sure why I didn’t get a pair of them…that was the pattern, after all…).

* I was excited to get this plant, years ago, from the BotGarden, when they still sold plants…. Then it did little, other than staying alive. After more than a decade, it took off, and now that the big tree above is gone, whew, I’ll have to reshape it and bring it “under control.” And, I’ve also discovered it’s an invasive plant. Trust the state of Georgia to pick an invasive plant as the state flower.

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The redbud buds are being supplanted. I noticed today that the trees are producing real shade, spotty still, but shade. Some of that is from spring-parts and not leaves, however shade is shade on these sunny, warm days.

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Yesterday I invested in this year’s garden. I planned to prep-and-plant this morning, but rain (a good thing) made the soil too wet, and I didn’t want to compact it by tromping on it.

I did water them, each wee pot zone, I promise.

I’m especially looking forward to enjoying the Thai basil….

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Do you know these maple seeds as helicopters? A childhood thing…. Or maybe no longer….

Anyway, these have crashed and are now earthbound….

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