Monday, 4 January 2021
I took a different street today early in my trek, one I’ve been down before, but not lately. I had forgotten about this bed with extremely early croci until the color awakened my eyeballs, pfffft! Wow!
Later, it occurred to me for the first time that picking the saffron crocus is truly backbreaking work, as these flowers are darned close to the ground!
Friday, 1 January 2021
I’d like to say that today honestly felt like the weight engendered by the awful things of last year was subsiding. Just a tad. A wee tad.
Wednesday, 30 December 2020
Surprised to find this pitcher plant in a front garden…although the BotGarden has them and I think distributes them (or did) in various situations. A change from pansies and camellias typical of Dec/Jan.
Keep the darned B.1.1.7 contagious variant of Covid-19 away from meeeeee. And youuuuuuu.
Thursday, 24 December 2020
Not surprisingly, I imprinted on my childhood and teen-hood seasons with respect to the calendar (in the Midwest), and based on that, we are now in winter, early winter, but still winter. Fully winter.
However.
Yes, um. Now I live in the piedmont Deep South. And here…well, December does not have ice storms and snowbanks…maybe a bit of white, but not sustained white. And white only perhaps umpf years out of every decade.
So, here we are: December on the calendar, with recently fallen (piedmont GA) oak leaves and lichen-decorated stone steps. So aesthetic.
So not winter in the Midwest.
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
I thought this was a thistle when I snapped it, but now I don’t. Perhaps a Crepis (hawksbeard) spp. Count me confused.
Sunday, 20 December 2020
Sorry, watching Richard Burton do his actor-magic for the camera for “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold” (released 1966), and I’m stealing/borrrowing the line…. And it has nothing to do with a yellow rose in a garden, truth told.
Saturday, 19 December 2020
I usually see RED Acer palmatum leaves; here, they’re orange…and decoratively distributed over the ivy and low granite wall, with a decorative fern.
Friday, 18 December 2020
Foliose lichen, if I have it right (the big ones). I do rather like lichens; they are so variable! However, it seems right that the mutualistic relationship situation of multiple species (which create lichens) should manifest diverse forms.
Thursday, 17 December 2020
I got this Wild Idea that I could selfie with the mistletoe in the top of this oak, and also show my wind-resistant head/neckwear. I see me and my garmentage, but somehow the mistletoe camouflaged itself. Squint: they’re there, just less dense than I expected.
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
I wonder if I can get a pardon from Prez l’Orange, perhaps for discussing the weather too often?
Stream of consciousness while listening to Rachel Maddow….