Thursday, 25 January 2024
I got lucky, and had a chance at vitamin D for about five minutes, perhaps less. 😂
I thought this was darned funny: I submitted this photo to the iNaturalist app, wondering if it could recognize what I’m pretty sure are desiccated beech leaves. A scientific experiment, ya know. It offered a half-dozen insect genus’. Insects. 😂
Sunday, 14 January 2024
Here’s the story of a brave tree that repeatly offers blossoms in December and January and other winter months…or maybe the genetics of not making fruit screw up its flowering patterns.
Is this an ethical dragon…I mean, eating gnomes…? But, then, can dragons be ethical? Or maybe it’s a dinosaur, and, we’re seeing merely that worlds have collided. [Oh, and note bulb foliage behind the monster.]
Tuesday, 26 December 2023
Mostly we had a misty-moist day, although we had some actual rain in the morning. The precip weighed down this pansy-planting…but it’ll be back after a half-day of sunshine.
Thursday, 21 December 2023
Hey, Bud! Proud of you for sneaking by that cold snap!
Wednesday, 20 December 2023
Ivy survivor.
BTW, this wall of horizontally laid, treated-wood beams is over six feet tall, and the ivy is about two feet up from the base. How? [And it’s the only one.]
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
I ventured out mid-afternoon to make Vitamin D, pushing up my sleeves a bit and waving my hands while walking into the sun…until I had to turn around.
Saturday, 16 December 2023
I saw an iPhone ad recently that portrayed changing the focus on an image from a foreground object to background one, and back, and thought, hmm, I should try that. Turns out: 1) you have to do the changing on your phone and not on the image downloaded to a laptop (like this was, for posting); and, 2), the image has to be in focus to begin with. Still, I know more now!
Friday, 15 December 2023
It seems to me that it’s flirting with failure for fruit trees to bloom in December, but this is probably an ornamental plum/peach/cherry/something that doesn’t set fruit anyway, so…the tree “thinks:” why not? Let’s go for it!
When I placed this order on early Wednesday morning, Amazon promised delivery on Thurs/yesterday by 10 pm. Not. Then, the promise was updated to today by 9 pm. Not. Now, Amazon’s enlisted UPS to get it to us…and are promising it by the 19th…and if we don’t receive it then, far more of this page was allocated to telling us how to wrangle a refund. Har.
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Yeah, I know they’re a little wilt-y, but they’re still fine purple pansy specimens. Enjoy them, or watch “The Librarians” (so silly, also it came out so long ago).
