Musings

Imagine…

Look at this photo. Study it. Imagine yourself looking at this view, living this moment.

What do you feel?

Me, in that moment: happy. I smiled for real. Sunshine and daffodils are a powerful combination.

Prime personification

I’m postulating that the car and the adjacent camellia have a relationship, after all these years spending nights and many days together. In this vein, I’m guessing this is a delayed valentine bloom-gift from the plant to the vehicle.

Or something.

Scabrous bark

Aren’t plants amazing?

Bug report

1) several ladybugs found in master bath, and left to their own devices.

2) one stinkbug, removed from inside the house.

Also, phone updated; watch updated. I always assume that updates in part address bugs.

Pine on high

With such a beautiful sky above, I had to look up, and found my eye drawn to the cones on the outer branches of this towering pine.

Anti-aeolian

Mayapples

My walking philosophy today was wind-avoidance, so I stuck to hollows and behind houses. [This is a contrast to the vitamin D and sunshine routes of the recent past.] Not the prettiest, but I did find these.

Overlapping time

Lots of rain-minutes today, although I could have found a few less-wet moments to make a wee walk. But I didn’t, so this fern-foto is from last week. Sometimes a day will have more pauses and recycling than forging forward.

Timelines

I had four (or so) vague ideas for this space, yet they all fizzled…a fast timeline compared to the growth of lichens and mosses.

Moments

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. 😂

Found stories

Cherry blooms

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.]