The pondlet’s (yes, decaying) ice rim is yesterday’s news. Today’s temps wiped it out. What the stats from the garage do not show is that all day it’s been WINDY. Not breezy, not some wind. Flat out windy.
This means that Ma Nature has increased tomorrow’s chore list: branch patrol. A new one came down in the last hour from the shade tree out back. Just a small branch this time; the last one I remember was at least 10 inches across at the base.
The shedding tree is a small-thorned variety of Gleditsia triacanthos I know as a moraine locust. Here’s an interesting document dating to May 1953 announcing the moraine variety…. The Professor O’Rourke of Michigan State College mentioned on the second page (the article’s page 80) was a buddy of The Botanist’s.
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I gotta give C credit; it was her idea to photograph this half-peeled pineapple (Ananas comosus) with the coalesced berries exposed.
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This is the power of weeds*; on this day, with temps reaching 51°F, one weed species (unknown to me) managed to bloom amongst the strawberry plants.
I couldn’t decide between the flower close-up (not a good photo) and the landscape (showing sky drama, but not a particularly good photo, either), for reasons that I cannot pin down. Hence, today is twofer day, and scale once again butts into my blog.
Not an hour after I snapped the flower photo, the sky became horizontally bisected; subsequently, the grey reigned and the sun abandoned us.
* Weeds are a concept, more than anything; they are culturally (socially) defined. They are plants, yes, and both species and individual specimens, that tend to grow where people don’t want them. Many people associate weeds with invaders of horticultural/farm plots, fields, and beds. But weeds can also be in your dooryard. So, I wonder if the concept of weeds originated with both sedentism and agriculture? Or just one of the two? Hmmm (meaning unanswerable).
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Night shot of the white hyacinth. Antidote to last (shhh snake) photo, if you need it….
Proving that I’m a sensitive person. Even a sensitive blogger….
Shhh. Also testing the latest version of Mars Edit….
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Just where did this day go? Washed downhill by the drizzle? Perhaps….
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We even got some sunshine over at the BotGarden today, although the cloud layer was solid by the time we headed home. We found the most sunshine in our company!
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We got the warm back a bit today. And these are blueberry bush blooms we found on a nursery plant. Compare (in your mind’s eye) to another blueberry plant display we saw in which the plants were about 20 cm tall—and sure to have blooms, oh, in about 4 years.
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But here, after the freeze, we have one daffodil that’s still standing, that didn’t bow under the cold temps.
And here’s my wine, so happy valentine’s day!
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The winds have brought down a few (relative) giants in Piedmont Park lately, and this one is being replaced by three young B&B specimens.
B&B is “balled and burlapped”—a nursery term. No laughing.
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Sometimes, this works for life, too—you bob your head a bit to the side (or up or down), and change the angle (or even the focal point), and pufffft, life is better.
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