Marking time
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
The field before sun-crest.
The field after sun-crest.
Ferns in the woods.
Ferns by the cottage.
Chives, picked for tonight’s stew. [The flowers are for show; those stems are not tender enough to eat any more.]
Musings
Sun-shines
Sunday, 21 June 2026
You can look at the early sun…
…and you can turn around and see what it’s lighting up.
Here’s late-day low-angle sun backlighting a rhubarb leaf.
It’s only right to celebrate the sun on the longest day of the year.
Quiet moments
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Drippy-rainy morning, with pink lupines…
…and aging dandelion blossoms….
Bonus: looking back west from the point, plus the foggy far shore.
A lighter moment with milkweeds budding [already]…
And, with more light, mayflies on the cottage door. [Not shown: seagulls swooping to snap up mayflies-in-motion.
Sunny day; rainy evening
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
The morning fog thickened after I took this, but I was bizzzeeee inside, so you’ll have to imagine what a later shot would have been like.
I like that the forget-me-nots have flowers on the ends and what the botanical types describe as tulip-shaped pods that contain the seeds along the stems. Anyway, I enjoy the flowers with the pods…togetherness?
Here, nearby
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Pink lupine, but you knew that.
Blue-purple lupine, with bumbler, with orange-red pollen.
I labelled this “mystery tracks,” then I checked the magic AI/online ID system, which indicates they’re raccoon.
In ATL, peonies were at this stage in early April, so over two months ago. That’s what latitude can do to plants!
We had an errand on the other side of the lake. We’re not motorboat-across people, so we drove around. On the way back we stopped at this new wheelchair-accessible structure for fishing, but we just looked at the water and surrounds. In the foreground, you may be able to pick out red foliage in the grass. That’s the remnants of the poison ivy that used to blanket the area before they dumped all the gravel, etc., here, and made modifications.
And here’s the lazy creek, with a promise of fish, if you read the signs.
All day sun-fun
Monday, 15 June 2026
A few minutes before the sun crested the trees….
Using the spotlight filter in full sun on a fern frond….
The fading sun turns the lupine blooms into jewels….
Avoiding, then…
Sunday, 14 June 2026
My sweetie took me out to lunch at our favorite place in Manistique. I like it because I can order a whitefish dinner (with salad bar that includes…tahdah…pickled beets…yum) and The Guru likes it because he can order an all-day omelette.
We lunched out because the morning weather was overcast and damp, and not good for mowing, which is almost always (and in this case) Job#1 upon cottage arrival. As the afternoon went on, the wind dried the grass (mostly), and the sun came out—yay. And we mowed about half of the grass—not the total grass, but the grass that we mow. …honoring (AKA bowing to) the tyranny of mowing….
Data center usage boosting
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Watched Monday’s keynote for WWDC with one ear (as in partly listened, and minimally watched), and a couple of sections featured the phrase “natural language.” As in, talk to this new enhanced Siri or just the phone as if it were a person. The phrase sounds faintly spooky to me. Languages other than English coming soon.