Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Ants swarming like it’s a peony, no?
Voting day some states. Here early voting began on Monday, so our airwaves (if that still works) are jammed with Seriously Annoying candidate ads, and Even More Annoying ads contributed by outside organizations.
Friday, 29 April 2022
More backyard labor this morning. No privet to attack. Other species, names unknown to me, attacked. This, however, is the decorative, woody perennial Liriodendron tulipifera.
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
I vanquished another privet today, or perhaps the joke’s on me, as it left several lateral roots behind that could spring up above the ground again very soon. The bed’s a mess, and needs more cleansing, but: progress. Neither of us has a plan for what to do with it. Very shady. Light-wise.
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
I had my way with a privet today. By “had my way,” I mean I uprooted it and sent it off to the compost. Took a half hour with a mattock—thump thump, wrench, strain. [This fading peony is much nicer.]
Thursday, 21 April 2022
I spent some time this afternoon finding tell settlements. It’s very rewarding. Many mounds like this: standing above the landscape, and possibly with archaeological trenching. Hard to miss.
Others were plenty tricky to find. Hah!
This peony: hard to miss. And a target for bees.
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
I just went out and took this. Perhaps 3/4 open.
And this was the other day, all tightly wrapped in on itself. In sunshine.
While the upper photo was taken before technical sunset, it’s no longer visible here, blocked by houses and trees. The city, you know.
Saturday, 16 April 2022
About five hours of rain overnight, sometimes rather hard, brought down these petals, creating a localized carpet. I also found some branchlets of mistletoe (it’s brittle).
Fringetree in full bloom. The petals do hang down, but the rain has made them more vertical than normal.
Another floor is underway on the BeltLine apartment project. Also note that the tops of the high rises are obscured by a cloud layer.
Apologies for the simplistic reporting and wordage; not sure why I’m more lethargic than normal.
Friday, 15 April 2022
So all day yesterday I cycled between knowing it was Thursday and thinking it was Friday. Discombobulating.
Today, I knew it was Friday and didn’t cycle.
Still, I sneezed a big huge sneeze several times. Pollen. A different kind of destabiliz-ment.
Thursday, 14 April 2022
This partly hidden is a flower spike. Perhaps of a yucca…in any case, a pointy leaved plant.
This “hidden” is trickier to spot. Look for four verticle temporary electric connections…for a commercial building project.
We spotted this during a blue-tinted moment on our quick trip to a mall. We’ve gone to a mall (only!) twice since the Descent of Covid, and both times have been Apple missions. Recent b-day dude Mr. Ohio now has a new, fancy, powerful laptop, with a gorgeous screen and four (!!!!) terabytes of storage. Movies, music, video clips? The sky’s the limit!
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
A viburnum. In bloom.
No malicious cyber tools here.
Apparently They may attack the energy grid with malware. They is the GRU, and perhaps additional groups.