Friday, 26 August 2022
With our early spring and late summer timings of our visits, we caught the beginning of lilacs and lupines, and the end of the sweet peas. And apple season! We had our first of the year last night, and it was sweet and fine (albeit slightly mealy, but it was a mealy kind that I forget the name of). No insects, either! Yay.
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
It, indeed, was a foggy morn, but there was more than that going on. Here’s the earliest light. Just magical. My eye found more pink in the sky than this shows. If you like pink.
This was at the beach mid- to late-afternoon. I think this is a native mint/mint family. Love the flower-collar at the leaf junctions. [Kindly substitute the botanical terms, if you know/care about them.]
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Clear, warm, and somewhat humid. Still, we did about eighty minutes of hard work this morning before the sun’s intensity ramped up—mostly cutting and vanquishing grass and weeds.
That’s the cycle of life around here. It’s either too cold for plants to flourish (or grow at all), or we’re in the brief period when it’s warm enough, and they grow with great urgency to make it through the growth cycle and produce seeds before freezing weather repeats.
This goldenrod (probably Solidago canadensis) is late to the blooming game, yet I know it’ll manage to be reproductively successful before the first killing frost.
Friday, 19 August 2022
This is where I’ve been dumping the coffee grounds. They are fresh…and yet, look, they’ve been colonized! I shouldn’t be surprised, I guess, as I do know that fungi are decomposers.
Sunday, 14 August 2022
I got some patio time on a friends’ patio, and found this loverly bloom. Actually there was a pot of them, but I thought this was the most perfect-rime.
Monday, 8 August 2022
Zinnia. Sunflower family. Native to the New World. If this is Zinnia elegans, it’s native to what we now call central Mexico.
Sunday, 7 August 2022
Watching “Emily in Paris” (saison deux) for the exteriors in Paris.
Title does not refer to photo; flowers are not trees.
Monday, 1 August 2022
Bye-bye July. Hello school year.
Basil has no relationship to either of those.
Sunday, 31 July 2022
I’m guessing this is bloom cycle five of 2022. This bush is persistent, even though it’s very hot and humid and maybe not the best weather for being a flowering azalea with high energy demands.
