Hyacinths aborning
Monday, 10 March 2014
The burst of warm weather we’re having is moving the bulbs along at a fast pace!
Musings
More daffie eye-candy
Sunday, 9 March 2014
You’ve seen my earliest blooming daffodils. This is from the second wave. They’re in front, and I planted them originally along the walkway to the front door. Now there’s a different walkway, a bit farther from the house, and the daffodils still come up, in front of the azaleas. They have stereotypical daffodil blooms, while the first-wave ones are a bit…fancier, with extra ruffles in the central orange part. I think.
Last days of winter*
Thursday, 6 March 2014
I snuck out between raindrops and found this waterlogged honeysuckle, with, um, stalwart blooms.
I was just telling the Guru yesterday that the afternoon light persists noticeably longer, and found out this morning (do I live in a bubble or something??) that we will undergo our spring-forward time change this weekend.
* That is, by some calculations. Your results may vary.
Flowery…flowers
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
I realized that most of the quince blossoms I had thought were frosted to death are blooming! And going from brown to bloom ever so fast!
I find myself not trusting a word out of Putin’s mouth after getting through all of season 2 of Spacey’s House of Cards.
But maybe I would have before I saw it, too….
Blink to focus
Monday, 3 March 2014
Quince blooms, captured using the macro.
Chilly overnight will threaten these…survivors….
Emergence
Sunday, 2 March 2014
In the very low 70°Fs today—hard to believe. Soooo very nice. Rain and cooler (only way we can go, pretty much) tomorrow, and (at least the cooler part) for a while.
Waffle-critter
Friday, 28 February 2014
Tried to get a shot of a quince bloom, since I thought they were all fried by the weather (but they aren’t!), but had to resort to the larger camellia for a usable shot. I guess I need more practice with the new Guru lens macro doo-hickies.
I’m always interested in where words come from. Some have stories that reduce me to giggles (at least inside). For example, reading in Nadeau and Barlow’s The Story of French (2006, pg. 102; French words are italicized), I read:
Gofer (gopher) is a deformation of gauffre (waffle), which described the waffle-like holes that prairie dogs dug.
I think both gopher and prairie dogs elevate the rodents’ profiles…and sound more upscale than some rodent names like rat and nutria—but definitely not others like mouse and chipmunk (the latter perhaps a corruption of an Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinaabemowin word).
Happenstance can be positive
Thursday, 27 February 2014
B calls this one the bearded orchid. Those little hairs on the side extension pieces are so delicate! You know I had to post an orchid and not…ignore them!
Chance to be neighborly today fell into our laps—easy to say yes! Still have a good feeling about that!
Conservatory green
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
New out-of-town friend H and I went to the Bot Garden, enjoying especially the moments when the sun was out. The orchids we caught on their “first” day several weeks back are even more in bloom. However, the old friends without the fancy blooms are also eye-catching.
Ornamental glory
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Some of the could-be-flowering trees look bud-free (at least from the road in quick glances), but others managed to slither among the cold spells and are blooming now. The whole tree!