Musings

I’ve always heard this called sweet pea. For sixty-ump years.

Then, a few minutes ago, I did an online search, and oops. Nope. Sweet pea is botanically Lathyrus odoratus, which is a tip-off that it’s a scented flower. These specimens are not scented. That means they are Lathyrus latifolius, or everlasting pea (and other common names). The two are close cousins looking very, very similar, and I’m sure there are also morphological differences.

I’ll keep calling these flowers sweet peas, because tradition is tradition; however, I’ll try to remember if someone knowledgeable about such things is around that it’s really L. latifolius.

Posted at 9:10 PM | Comments Off on Live and learn

Meet Acer palmatum. This maple is native to east Asia, from Korea north into Russia. Knock me over with a feather; I just read that there are over a thousand cultivars of this species.

Posted at 10:16 PM | Comments Off on Go horticulturalists

Around here, June was a bust for rainfall…we received close to zero-zilch. The last four days have more than made up for that deficit and launched us most of the way to our July average to boot.

The tough part is that it is darned humid outside (outside meaning: beyond the air-conditioning).

Posted at 9:23 PM | Comments Off on Drops do accumulate

Look at all the visual contrasts! Color, shapes, living vs inanimate—the whole shebang!

Fireworks began precisely at 9:15pm, and they’re now booming in various locations in the southern direction…with nothing sounding in the northern quadrants. This is audio contrasts?

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I have irregular success with flash and fleurs. Today, the gods favored me. [Framing, not so much.]

Posted at 9:42 PM | Comments Off on Working the odds

This lovely fleur is of the genus Agapanthus, and it hails from southern Africa, if my web sources are correct (and there is no dissent, so I can assume it’s the truth*).

* In these times, truth may be a poor word to choose (in any usage whatsoever), as so many American citizens seem willing to…uhem, I’ll just stop here. Apologies for the near-rant.

Posted at 9:22 PM | Comments Off on Botanical specifics

The majority of the lupine are at this stage, with seeds growing in fuzzy pods.

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I do very much enjoy this photo setting when it works (portrait, stage light).

First day of summer vegetation progress report from central north Georgia mountains: mimosa trees in full flower and scattered moderate sized pink blooms in the ditches that I couldn’t recognize at highway speeds.

Posted at 9:58 PM | Comments Off on Canna lily art

There’s gotta be a clever quip based on this leaf image, right? Something to do with the word stoma? Got me.

Title is phrase that sometimes appears on our TV…coyly, in the upper right.

Posted at 9:22 PM | Comments Off on “Remote connected”

The title—94, 96, 95—reports the high temps through Sunday that the meteorologist predicted yesterday morning. I think yesterday did get to 94, but today topped at 97. Yeesh.

What will tomorrow bring?

Appropriately, this is a yesterday-photo. 😇

Posted at 8:36 PM | Comments Off on 94, 96, 95