Sunday, 25 May 2025
Backlit leaves, aglow.
Ferns and ramps (wide angle).
Siberian apple; polinator tree, not for eating. More of the apple trees are blooming.
Backlit pear, sure to be heavy with fruit.
The woods, an hour after the backlit pear, so the opposite direction,. The opposite word/phrase—is it fully-lit?
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
What is the statement of the day based on this image, I was thinking a few minutes ago. Hmm.
A bee crawls through a milkweed quite without effort? Too simplistic.
Orange and green are my new favorite color pairing? Yeesh, who would believe that.
Garden life is captivating? I’ll take that.
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
As I did several months ago, JCB recently received a juror summons. He was in group 3, so we thought he might have to appear, and was to call in last night to find out if he had to show up downtown today. No groups were called, he found out, and he got to sleep in.
I was gonna try something about “barking up the wrong tree,” but…pfft, I couldn’t make it sing, rock, or rumble in any pleasant way.
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
I do enjoy some of the dramatic creations of the “Portrait / stage light” settings (although others are dreck).
Monday, 12 May 2025
I came back from being at Book Club, a short stroll well after dark set in, and…redolent. That’s the word. Our front steps were awash in the scent of gardenias. Here’s a night shot, which definitely needed white balancing to look correct.
Sunday, 11 May 2025
We saw the Looming Peach in SC, and definitely felt we were closing in on GA and home while miles were still ahead of us.
Coming into metro, we weathered a traffic jam, ho hum. We found our (OUR!) gardenias beginning to bloom, so: yay!
We missed an earthquake yesterday…hopefully, there aren’t more tremors coming. It’s 63°F and precipitating, so welcome home on the weather front, too.
Saturday, 10 May 2025
We departed our VT sanctuary well fortified with coffee. This involved braving a steady rain. But not for too terribly long.
Soon, however, we basked in open skies, almost sunshine…and did (more or less) for the rest of the day. [If I had to name this photo, it’d be something about rest area (temporary) cones contrasting with everyday functions like picnic tables. I think.]
At a later rest area, irii (my plural of iris) exhibited in multiple colors. Here’s a medium purple one with yellow highlights, oh so lovely.
Thursday, 8 May 2025
The benefits of staying with a friend who’s a baker are obvious…and tasty: apple pie.
Trees at night…not yet leafed out. BTW, this far north, today the mowing guys did our friends’ yard for the first time this year. As is common, the mowing guys change out their equipment and clean the driveway through the winter.
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
How do you make your state capitol building, here a state house, look more impressive when it has only two stories: put it part way up a hill with a cascade of steps below the main entrance.
Complex tiling patterns in the entry of the public library, Randolph.
Dam and falls in Bethel; mill buildings are to the right.
Exposed interior structure, Howe Covered Bridge.
Orange County Court House, Chelsea.
Oddly, Chelsea has two commons separated by a rushing creek. I spotted this chicken on the bridge connecting the two commons, which of course provoked the question: why did the chicken cross the road? Data based on this chicken is null as it did not cross while I was watching.
We visited several covered bridges along this section of the White River, and this one, Moxley, had an actively used ford just below the bridge, while none of the others did. I figure it’s used by farmers and so on with large equipment.
Cilley Covered Bridge: although the bridge dates to 1883, these boards are from perhaps the last few months.
I’ll spare you any more covered bridge photos; how ’bout some ornamental, um, apples? Guessing…that’s way too dense a flowering pattern not to be an ornamental variety, and I think it’s apple, but I’m no botanist.
