Saturday, 17 April 2021
Here’s that property that I posted photos of on the 8th and 12th as the building clearing process was underway. Today, it’s all clean and the lot is flattened. It looks like the machine-operator “captured” a piece of i-beam and used it as a scraper. Smart!
Cardoon; fascinating foliage…the leafy cousin of the globe artichoke.
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Vaccine shot reaction seems to be limited to sore arm, which seems a bit less now than it did this morning. My expectation is that the worst is over.
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Lucky 210. That was my number to get called to the nurse to get my #2 Pfizer shot. Yay! I’m shot up!
Monday, 12 April 2021
Back on the eighth, I spotted a machine munching this building. I think this is the same machine loading the crunched up pieces for removal.
Since the worker’s truck listed “asbestos removal” among their specialties, I opted to not hang around. Did not want to get a respiratory complication in these COVID times.
Nice flower. Don’t know name.
Sunday, 11 April 2021
We’ve gotten to clematis season. This one has a shy petal.
Watched the very end of the Masters, not quite a shoo-in, so a level of excitement. Water-hazards! Sand traps! TENSION!
Always, when I look at the Masters, I wonder if they’ve had to put bags of ice under the azaleas to keep them from flowering too soon. [Except last fall…but, usually.] Maybe this year the timing worked out right and the groundskeepers didn’t have to retard the blooming process.
Friday, 9 April 2021
I tried to do some computational photography magic (messiness?) with this and…Could…Not. Still don’t know why, other than the broad category of operator error.
How could I mess up these beauties, however?
Why should I be glad it’s Friday? After all, I just bumble in Covid-avoidance through each day, pretty much the same as yesterday and tomorrow. Still, Friday has magical connotations, and even did when I had to work weekends.
Thursday, 8 April 2021
The cylinder wrap reads “Forever lawn,” that is: plastic, more plastic, green plastic that you’ll never have to mow and will shed water and emit who-knows-what as the sun beats down on it. In other words: not green green.
Natural big bumbling bee. With pollen.
Dramatic flowers, kinda like straw flowers, but larger and not straw flowers.
I’ve been watching this abandoned old building for months; it used to have artist studio spaces. Then it was empty. And empty. Until today, when it got crunched. I expect the condo for-sale sign will reappear.
Wednesday, 7 April 2021
For months, I’ve been loving the pattern of these mossy roots…now festooned with oak-detritus.
These bluebells are from a different block.
Tuesday, 6 April 2021
I gotta get this post up because my Guru is recommending we watch “Debris.” I heard this long after I picked this photo for your viewing pleasure today.
In one day, these petals went from droopy to horizontal. Don’t know what this is called, but it’s a healthy volunteering species.
Saturday, 3 April 2021
Enjoying the last cool days I expect we’ll have until next autumn…sooooo nice, sooooo un-sweaty.
One of my favorites…I think of this as a wild azalea, although I’m not sure this isn’t a cultivar. Still, it has the delicate, almost lacey quality that I find captivating. None in my garden, however; perhaps it’s time to change this?