Musings

Here’s a photo of Vesuvius from Pompeii from our visit there in May 2011. For no apparent reason. Except maybe beauty?

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Scariest tree around (because it’s very large and looms over half our home), looking gorgeous in the late-day sun.

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Bonus from our foray outside the perimeter: a stunning sunset.

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From this house we don’t have a good view of the low-light parts of the day (faves for me), but this morning I caught a nice view of the light-graduation-transition (cropped out of this shot), ornamented by a waning crescent moon.

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Every once in a while I congratulate myself, very privately, on coming up with a mildly clever title for a blog photo. I called this one “lawn_jockeys.” These plants, whatever they are, are robust these days in neighborhood lawns, while simultaneously the grass is thin and de-energized. Perhaps the name only kinda makes sense.

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This is the sky I was looking at three years ago, on 14 Dec 2019, somewhere north of Albuquerque. Little did we know what was coming that winter.

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I didn’t pay close attention to the weather prediction this morning, and got the impression that we’d have off-and-on rainy weather. Turns out that this afternoon was to be—and was—lovely. Next lovely time will usher in the weekend.

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I am convinced that the “correction” on my phone’s camera makes the strangeness of fog…diminish. This is my best capture from the fog-season we’ve been living in most mornings lately. Embrace reality.

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Perhaps I shouldn’t use that title the weekend before an election run-off…to clarify, the surprise is that this tree (at the less-than-six-feet-tall stage at present) is in our back yard (aka garden in Brit Engl). I did not know we hosted a beech there. Yay; so classy! [The winter foliage of beeches is so distinctive. This species, Fagus grandifolia, is the only Fagus species in North America—pretty sure.]

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While you may be thinking that this accumulation of ginkgo leaves means the ginkgo leaf drop has happened, lemme tell you that there are plenty of (non-scientific estimation) leaves remaining attached to the tree above.

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