Saturday, 21 January 2023
Here’s today’s tree identification tip. This time of the year, if you see a tree with dry, beige leaves like this, it’s a beech (Fagus spp.). In spring, the new buds will push off the old leaves, meaning they stay on through the winter. Like this.
Sunday, 15 January 2023
The moon’s been bright on recent clear nights, but I’ve been sleep-stumbling too much to try for a photo. Here’s a flower from last year’s lovely 15 Jan.
Saturday, 14 January 2023
Wood grain, as a concept, sounds simple. However, if you have different kinds of wood and different treatments thereof, you realize it’s visually complicated. Functionally, too; but it’s a different thing to assess that. Here, the shadows from Venetian blinds complicate the wood grain visuals. Plus some random scratches.
Monday, 26 December 2022
I went out to take a couple of holly pictures, thinking I could make a clever comment using them (I dream), and found this sprig of point-less leaves. Well, thorn-less. Renegades.
I figure it took me off the hook for coming up with a witty comment.
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
One lovely thing about being in Atlanta in December (and January and February)*—camellias in bloom.
* Says the gal who grew up in the Great Lake State.
Saturday, 3 December 2022
Perhaps I shouldn’t use that title the weekend before an election run-off…to clarify, the surprise is that this tree (at the less-than-six-feet-tall stage at present) is in our back yard (aka garden in Brit Engl). I did not know we hosted a beech there. Yay; so classy! [The winter foliage of beeches is so distinctive. This species, Fagus grandifolia, is the only Fagus species in North America—pretty sure.]
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
I had nothing to say.
Maybe not nothing, but nothing “of general interest*.”
Hence, I selected a photo, but never posted (on time).
*At least, that’s the phrase as I remember it from “Cheaper by the Dozen”—the book, the original.
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Overcast and winds arrived today, the outer bands of the outer bands of storm Nicole that is down in Florida. The last map I saw showed the center of the storm will cross Florida, then head for us. Inland means less power, yet we’ll still have plenty more wind and probably over two inches of rain before the weekend. For now, our blooming basil remains.
Thursday, 3 November 2022
If I go down the front steps, I go by this healthy stand of herbaceousness. By typical North American yard maintenance philosophies and techniques, it should have been pulled and composted long ago. I’d better get going!
Friday, 28 October 2022
I experimented with stage lighting in portrait mode on this blooming beauty. Interesting, but only momentarily. Sometimes that’s enough…although I’m not feeling it today.