Musings

We got some rain today, but not off-and-on much of the day, which was one prediction I heard. Note that the rain and tree detritus are making the azalea blooms droop. Several hours after this, the sun came out and lasted for quite a while. Still, it’s down to 59°F right now, quite a drop from the 80s we’ve been enduring.

Posted at 9:19 PM | Comments Off on Weather change

This plant had a branch that ran along the ground and sprouted roots…

…so I cut it off the mother plant and planted it about a dozen feet away. I don’t understand how what should be a genetic clone (seems to me) has much more white mixed in with the pink.

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Let’s parse this. Headline: it’s pokeweed. There’s a fat root, a new sprout, and, next to it, a dry old stem that the goats left.

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Overall, I think highly of the data my AppleWatch reports. Truth: it does a poor job of counting flights of stairs, always low. However, that count is not a meaningful statistic for me, so I remain happy with ole WanderWatch.

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I did more plant purging today, which most people call weeding. My focus was poke salad (aka pokeweed, Phytolaca americana), which I discovered have massive, fat roots (which may have another function/name, but they look like roots). Anyway, you can tell how spring is progressing, that the phase we’re in is “emergence of pokeweed.” BTW, the photograph is of Star of Bethlehem.

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I’m not a pink person, normally, but I’m grooving on these.

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Proof that spring springs forth. Sometimes without motion.

Posted at 10:13 PM | Comments Off on Blooming

Where’s that portable spot? Rrrgh. Do not confuse with redbuds…which are also in bloom.

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These azaleas almost look like a whooshing Rocky Mountain cascade. With stamens.

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Found a fruity bloom. Cherry? Plum?

And lotsa pine pollen out there, too.

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