Musings

I do like the jagged edges and the silver tint of cardoon vegetation. Cardoons are Cynara cardunculus. Although today planted in this area as ornamentals, in colonial days they were planted for food…stems mostly I think, but perhaps also the buds.

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Lotsa rain overnight, and a variable day, including actual sunshine. This was when it was still overcast.

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As I did a bit of photo tweaking, I thought: harhar, I’m cropping the new crop of camellia buds.

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The weedy onions are rising and pollen (not shown) is adrift.

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Moss-world is flourishing these days, including on this aging wall of decaying concrete.

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A lovely dawn-sky…

…heralded a sunny day.

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I managed to insert my walk between spates of rain. I’ve been seeing that the Magnolia liliiflora are blooming here and there. I finally spotted one I could approach with my camera (aka phone).

On the home front, the camellia decorations on the hood of the car continue…not so pretty when the blooms are freeze-fading, but still artful.

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We went out to do an errand and discovered that a squirrel had been feeding on the camellia bud hearts above the car. Is that the floral equivalent of maple sap-syrup?

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Plants can be so resilient! These perked right up and got to the business of being a successful plant (flowering, seed creation), toot-sweet after the last two weekends of distinctly winter weather.

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Now that the ice storm and the snow storm have passed, budding has begun.

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