Musings

We’re enjoying transitional autumn, with some lovely sunny days, along with lingering colorful leaves. Evidence here. [Not all days are this enchanting, duh.]

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Front came through last night. Sometimes that means fine, clear weather. Today: no. Wind increased all day, and the sun barely came out at all when I walked, although I went out early enough to give it a chance.

Even though I encountered several noisy leaf-blowers, I did manage to enjoy my outing just a tad. Outdoors is oh-kay. And I found a lovely burgeoning rosebud.

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The sun came and went several times while I was out, always making me smile.

Lately I’ve been trying to up my daily sixty minutes to around seventy; my success has been uneven, although my (left) knee is holding up. Today I made seventy-four. Whoopee.

The title refers to the wintery transition we made, with our initial use this season of the steering wheel warmer (twice, actually). It came with the car; I don’t imagine we would have ordered it!

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“Mank.” Worth the time. Terrific lines delivered extremely well. Well crafted. Big cast. Today’s news remodeled into historical fiction.

Strange plant in small, overlooked gas station bed.

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I’m lousy at surveillance. I spotted this and one more ginkgo tree with fresh-dropped leaves, but I’m pretty sure the others, maybe a quarter mile away, still had their leaves.

I’ll check tomorrow. The legend of ginkgos all dropping their leaves the same day is at stake.

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In keeping with the winter-wise temperature transition, I have bowed to the gods of vitamin D, and I am now assuming that I will be wearing more clothing and exposing less skin on my outdoor ventures, and began this week taking supplemental vitamin D. (whew; run-on sentence nomination!).

However (echo: however), sunny today!)

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While today was cool and windy like yesterday, it was sunny—and lovely in comparison. The ginkgos haven’t yet dropped their leaves, and are rather brilliant in their yellow-green way.

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My apologies—this photo is from the other day…when it was sunny. Today was overcast and windy. The temps started dropping mid-morning, and that is never pleasant this time of the year. The meteorologists say there may be snow overnight in the mountains. Here: nope. Cold cold cold, however, as in below freezing overnight, and tomorrow night, too. I turned up the heat a degree as the house has only mediocre insulation.

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Nice leetle joke of the tree-cutting crew to carefully place the stump right-side-up in the street. I didn’t quite do a double-take, but I did study it for a half-beat…. No, no stump/tree in the pavement. Just on.

I cannot anthropomorphize this into a conscious decision to bud as November comes to a close (in the northern hemisphere). It’s just an off-season accomplishment. Nothing more; nothing less. Avert your eyes; keep moving.

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In the process of confirming that this is indeed lantana, I discovered that the parent of this cultivar (likely a cultivar, anyway), is probably native to the New World, albeit south of here. In some places across the globe lantana is a noxious invasive species. Here, it’s just a garden lovely. Is that okay?

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