Saturday, 16 May 2020
Greens! Only they’re not mine…a productive container garden in front of a rental…four apartments…someone’s commandeered the sunniest spot for these lovelies.
I liked the light through the leaves. Looked better in person. Through my polarized sunglasses.
And looking up…high altitude magnolia blossoms.
They are huge. Here’s a bud at finger height.
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Carry-over from yesterday…apparently no redbugs from my berry-picking. Fast and feet on pavement saved me. This is a red bug, but not a redbug (aka chigger).
This bee mastered this rose. Dead aim into the core, trundled around for a minute, bzz bzz, and I captured its soul.
And the third “b” is berries. Not the kind I found yesterday, but smokey-, sage-colored lovelies.
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Hands down, the most exciting happening in my day was finding this blossom, and its family. Because I knew it was a berry blossom. And a signal….
So I kept looking. Eeee-heeee! Berries! Hmm, any ripe ones? How ’bout ripe-enough ones? Gentle twist on one with color. Nope. So I try another, hmmm, add a bit to the gentle on the twist…thinking, well, I’ll try it, probably a bit…not-quite ripe. Sure enough, not full tasty, but…mmm…sun-warmed berry! Yay! Fortified, I keep looking. Back there, way behind the close distracting berries, a fully ripe berry…mmmmm. A new season…berry-season! Yeah. Life is darned good. Ripe. Sun-warm. I’m so lucky.
Artsy picture. Not sure why this grass has not greened up…must be a stay-brown a LOOOOONG time species.
Jay commented not that long ago that a V-marked marker probably announces a valve. Duh. She is so right…as I expected. Here’s a different V-marker, a hydrant, and a valve cover. Done and done. Thanks for the tip, Jay.
Monday, 11 May 2020
These evergreen magnolias become big trees. And the flowers can be far overhead. This one was. And a big bee was buzzing about in it. Perfect, I thought, and fumbled the phone, which didn’t recognize me with the mask on…fumble more, and bee buzzed away. But, here’s the flower. Alone again. Naturally.
Bonus second shot…. No bees here either. But many flower friends. Of two species.
Saturday, 9 May 2020
Near perfect. Those colors!
I encountered recommendations for “Money Heist” (true title “La casa de papel”) several disparate places, and asked the Guru if he’d be interested in giving it a try. We embarked, and have watched two episodes. It has a Euro feel, which makes sense because it’s a Spain Spanish production. The subtitles are teensy, which is both less distracting from the picture and difficult to read. I’m warming to the fast-speaking cast and their Spain-accented Spanish—been YEARS since I heard that….
So, oddly?, we’re bouncing between “Money Heist” and running through old “Billions” to get caught up or refreshed before dipping into the new season. Both have to do with cash and power, but in quite different ways. I’ll be staying tuned.
Friday, 8 May 2020
Walking Partner and I had to cross the street (actual traffic!) to get shots of this huge cactus with many blooms and buds. Beautiful yellow-orange color.
New York markets are up; I’m wondering how much money is flowing in from foreign buyers…US market as a haven?
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Playing with portrait mode again, this time without the spotlight. I really like the yellow-green borders of new growth, although I usually dislike that color.
Found a vegetable garden in someone’s front yard, if you can call two squash plants (already blooming!), one pepper plant (with half-grown pepper), and two tomato plants a garden. It’ll soon keep a few elves in veg for a long weekend, and they won’t get tromped during Geezer Hour™ at the local groc store.
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
I’ve been looking for one of these this spring. I call them flower balls (in my mind). I suppose they are an ornamental allium?
NOT a murder hornet enshrined.
Sunday, 3 May 2020
Backing up bee. You can’t tell, but I was there and the insect was in, then out, and this photo is from the exit.
No bees here. Don’t recognize this color pattern, but the flower shape and grouping do look familiar. Will ponder further.
This one has marigold “written” all over it. Even though the center is greenish, and the rest is yellow, not gold. This yellow is the always-color for the marigolds of my childhood.
