Musings

Kohlrabi is the fat-stem cabbage variant. Perhaps a modified kale.

Or just a decorative seasonal winter planting….

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Despite the cold (like high 40s), we braved the elephants and strolled in Piedmont Park and the Bot Garden with the lovely B, especially enjoying the sunny moments. We discovered this verbal joke in the orchid house.

Hmmm. Stilettos in…nope….

Answer in photo name, if you can’t figure it out….

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Do shadows have a seasonal look? I see this as a winter shadow….

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Surviving planter from Exposition days over a century ago (e.g., 1887 and 1895), now in Piedmont Park…. Replanted….

I made a huge pot of chili for the Friday night meal of the “retreat” I’m attending Fri/Sat. Not the way I usually make it because it needs “universal” appeal, and pretty darned tasty. Looking forward to it. More than I’m looking forward to bunking in small-dorm housing at a Girl Scout camp (a budget “retreat,” doncha know…).

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Over by Piedmont Park this afternoon, I found this “regular,” “front-yard” iris, blooming by itself. No greenhouse. No special protection.

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Loved the shadows of the filaments/stigmas on the petals….

I cleared the leaves out of the rosemary a little while ago, and now I smell like rosemary.

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As I was dumping the coffee grounds this morning, I noticed that a carrot-top is forging ahead in the compost-pile.

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Yeah, okay, I admit it. Photo from yesterday.

My day has been so without interest that I generated no…sharable…pictures.

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Lovely light lavender croci.

Meteorologists predicted 72°F*. Our thermometer showed a high of 74°F—in the shade. We strolled over to the BotGarden and checked out the displays. The night-lightshow hardware is partly disassembled. This is balanced by…croci! daffodils! camellias!

* Average high today for this location: 52°F. Sheesh. But nice to get out in!

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If it’s not global warming, there’s certainly plantal confusion (or whatever the term should be).

This is our new brave and lovely quince*, and I’m betting that fruit trees, even wee ornamental ones, “should” not be blooming now…in January. Even in ATL.

* LQ = lovely quince

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