Saturday, 23 April 2011
Tonight we had our first summery meal of the season, the “Chinese” chicken salad I posted a while back…. The house is still redolent of star anise, orange, cinnamon, ginger, and sweetened soy. Yum!
Friday, 22 April 2011
I can’t decide if this picture seemed the best choice for today because it can be interpreted as a metaphor for my day—that is, colorful brilliance in the foreground, with a murky background.
On the other hand, I’m this close to being finished with my current project for the SGA…and then, whee!, I can futz around for the (rest of the) weekend!
Thursday, 21 April 2011
How do you measure the age of a plant, when what you see began as a cutting, so is genetically identical to the plant the cutting came from? Do you start the clock with the severing from the original plant? Do you start from whenever the original plant started? What if there were a series of cuttings, and the stock from the seed is lost in the mists of time?
Waagh! It’s too late for this!
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
I “populated” my day with miscellany—not so satisfying as the big accomplishments, but, in the end, assorted chores now are taken care of. Not sure what they are upon reflection, but, well, yea!
Mean-betwixt, SWAT teams were…um, getting some experience?…over in the Morningside area (let’s show that we’re alert by putting public schools on lockdown?). I heard hovering helicopters. Should I now feel safe?
Apologies for the ramble; I’m under the influence of a particularly tasty pot of F-chili (yum!).
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
I know loved ones in the upper Midwest are dealing with that frozen precip—it’s April, and thus not entirely unexpected. Here, however, we’re enjoying sunshine and summery temps. My sage plant, now two years old, is in glorious bloom and the later azaleas are beginning to bloom, too. Expect “proof” photos this week….
My big chore of the day: power-washing the front steps. And, boy, do they look better!
Monday, 18 April 2011
Usually I compose the headline after I write the text, since I’m not particularly adept at headline creation. Today, the title came first.
I like this idea of passing through time—albeit as time passes—but time on a different scale than real-time.
Motoring south today on US27 from mid-Kentucky to southern Tennessee, we did drive through early spring—from irises through redbuds and, as here, dogwoods. I loved the gorgeous woods, with tinges of green highlighted by splashes of white in those characteristic horizontal layers the dogwoods offer.
And, now, we are ensconced in full-blown late spring, with the leaves on many trees one-third to half out, and the colors, ah, the colors, just glowing greens….
Quick garden report: a few basil leaves are poking above the soil. Watering needed….
Monday, 11 April 2011
This, of course, is real sage, and, in this case, getting ready to bloom. Look at that fat bud! (Sage, not any other species….)
The title? My first Mac, a hand-me-down from Guess-Who, was named Mac-Sage, because it was a Mac (duh!) and sported a sticker saying “Sage” (more duh!).
I sometimes think my current Mac(s) are sage-y, but none are quite the Mac-Sage, with its tiny screen (in comparison, mind you; I wrote plenty of multi-page papers on M-S and loved that it was so-much!! easier! better! than…um, well, you get the idea…) and whirring disk drive.
Sage. Bud. Mac-Sage. (Disk) drive.
History.
Borrowing from KW (or evocative of KW—something), lemme say, over and not-quite-out-and-I’ll-be-back-mañana…. Luv ya, everyone, especially the one-whose-bday-it-is-today. Extra hugs, luv’d one….
Sunday, 10 April 2011
It’s called the Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata), but it’s from Asia. I planted it years ago, and this is the first time I remember noticing it blooming. Cool!
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Two huge sighs of relief around here this morning—the first because the procrastinators managed to keep our nation open for biz, and the second because, tada!, the mail-dude brought our spanking new passports. Whew!
Friday, 8 April 2011
Edamame, that is, green soybeans (Glycine max)*…a favorite appetizer with our ATL family.
And, yes, we gathered with family this evening.
* WikiPee says the first soybeans were grown in what’s now the US of A in 1765, near Savannah.