Musings
Picture from Conservatory in Seattle the other day….
On the flight, I read McCullough’s The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (2012). Book club selection…(and we meet next Monday).
I didn’t finish, although I got through about fifty of the seventy years it covers. Samuel FB Morse—didn’t know he was a painter before he telegraphed. Speaking of painters: George PA Healy—how did I never note his name before?
In the later decades of the nineteenth century (the book covers 1830 to 1900), did American fellas have only one middle name?
I have through the weekend to find out….
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What better to do on a rainy day when you haven’t much time than go look at flowers and colorful plants from the shelter of a conservatory?
Please enjoy this bromeliad in the Volunteer Park Conservatory…we sure did!
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Wrong time of the year for the salmon to be jumping up the fish ladder—except for maybe a few steelheads—although we did find some action in the Ballard Locks—two locks, actually. We always call them the Ballard Locks because they’re on the south edge of the Ballard neighborhood, but they’re really the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks.
By the way, that little building off to the right of the ship in this view, and on the spit between the locks, has a rosebush at each end (that irregular shape behind the guardrail), firmly rooted in a slot about four inches wide and less than a foot long. Such tenacity plants have!
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We have a cold snap coming, if the weather-folk are right, which is not good for this ROSE.
Today was one of those little-of-this-little-of-that days, with several “important” things neglected in favor of things I chose.
Note that the tree is up and decorated—photo to come another day.
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This year has been one for the books. With our losses have come some lovely gains. D&F gave us this quince to honor M&D (thank you!). I was worried that our low rainfall had taken the ultimate goal on this new shrub, and I am so happy to report that it’s put on buds. I just hope that it isn’t too soon….
Our city water comes from Lake Lanier, which now is 14.65 feet below normal—that is WAY WAY low. Our rainfall has been about half of normal this year. Thankfully, some rain is expected tomorrow. Mild rain. Still, better than nothing.
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I don’t remember the redbud leaves hanging on later rather than dropping sooner, so I’m a tad surprised to see them still on the branches. This one is progeny from the neighbors’ tree.
Appalling news out of CT. How terrible.
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Those who are…tired…of finding flower pictures on this blog, remember (most of) this is not a flower (the red leaves are bracts modified via photoperiodism).
The LadyNell has kindly graced our home with a fanTAStic poinsettia (thank you!). The seasonal spirit has arrived!
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Global warming? No systematic data, but our camellia has blooms ready to open…seems early to me.
Thanks so much, commenters, for the action on yesterday’s post….
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Glorious sunshine for my afternoon walk; I enjoyed every step.
It’s the Time of the Autumn Ginkgo—that’s my excuse for the repeat.
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Leftovers are a lovely thing. Undeniably. However, the corollary is that when you work your way through them, you can accumulate a pile of dirty empties!
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