Musings

Bot garden, last weekend.

All day Wednesday, I kept thinking it was Friday. All day today, I knew it was Friday.

For whatever it’s worth.

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Our neighbors have instituted a program to check my heart health whenever I leave the house, and sometimes when I return.

The inside scoop I heard was that a kindly looking robin accompanied D as she planted this bed, which she thought nice companionability from the animal world until she discovered that the robin was uprooting each specimen she had carefully planted as soon as her back was turned—if not before.

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Walking leads to…stationary…visuals.

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Okay, here’s my Ranunculus collection 13.5 hrs later….

See how the buds’re more open?

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Oh, are they lovely!

Which evokes “flowers” more?

You’re looking at cultivated Ranunculus—the family includes buttercups.

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During a wandering stroll of the neighborhood, we saw many lovely blooms—some bicolor irises and one cluster of rhododendrons come to mind as especially eye-catching. But I think the best is right next door—an heirloom wandering white rose.

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The first backlit leaf photo I took was a palmetto.

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We discovered the ornamental pears in front of East Lansing’s former Post Office are just gorgeous (do I use that word too frequently? and indiscriminately?).

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The promised frost did hit our piece of the planet earth in the wee hours, and I’ll be having translucent asparagus with lunch, since I didn’t get them picked yesterday. The color was just gorgeous as the sun shone through the stem. Little guys, like the one on the right, and pencil-thin specimens, like the one on the left, made it through okay.

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We are warned to expect frost tonight. Blossoms are rather susceptible; we’ll see how this peach fares—although the Botanist says the peaches this tree produces aren’t worth it.

I’m sorry; gotta go. I see the asparagus patch needs picking again….

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