Fringe-y
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
I had a vision. My camera couldn’t see it.
😇 I’ll survive….
Musings
What’s hue opinion?
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Blue-purple? Purple-blue? Or perhaps just a shade of blue?
Precip on petals
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
During my post-rain walk, I discovered many dewy blooms, not all as elegant as this deciduous magnolia.
Relocated by wind
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
We’re supposed to have a front come through overnight, so windy storms, perhaps (hopefully?) weaker than the other weekend that caused us to need four large trees removed. Whew. Still, before the winds, somehow a fading camellia blossom found its way to our front steps this afternoon.
Relatives
Saturday, 1 March 2025
These plants, decorative in this area, mystified me (with my northern mental database) until I found them labelled somewhere. Now, I know them to be relatives of artichokes…sporting rather elegant dagger-leaves-of-green.
Ahhh-chooo
Monday, 24 February 2025
We’re coming out of a run of cold days, and we’re headed for some lovely warm days before cold rolls in again. The warmth is enough to get the pollen going, in a bit of an ironic twist.
Chainsaw ballet
Friday, 21 February 2025
At 9:30 this morning, the leaner was still rooted to the ground—ish.
By early afternoon, the top was removed and both the leaner and the one that fell away from our house were mostly removed.
Shortly before the guys closed down for the day, the leaner’s stump was removed, and the one that fell was merely a stub of a sump.
The elegance and carefulness of the work crew was something to behold (pardon the passive voice).
Removal underway
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Despite today’s gustiness…
…the tree guys climbed high, tied off this direction and that, fired up chainsaws, and took down two trees. I was surprised to see how much core rot one of them had…. Happily, they have a plan to remove the tricky, leaning, good-sized tree tomorrow