Musings

Relatively overcast at 8:44am. By the way, that’s the stump of a huge white pine that had two main trunks. It became storm battered and had to be cut down so it didn’t fall on the cottage. This was some years ago. The chainsaw guy had been cutting trees in the woods and elsewhere for decades, and said it was the largest tree he’d ever cut down. I think it was planted in my great-grandfather’s time.

This was just a few minutes later, and you can see the sun was making inroads on the overcast. The cottage looks much better from this distance rather than closer up.

1:26pm. Sunny and almost totally cloudless. That’s a large sour cherry tree, with a gap in the middle. It has lovely dead-white blooms. You can see that the leaves are barely showing pretty much everywhere. (Evergreens don’t count.)

A vulpine visitor came through about 6:40pm, first heading west on a deer trail, then turning north on the driveway, here. If you read the title and get curious, thanks for sticking through the tedious-yet-informative weather-and-vegetation photos. 😉

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We made it! We found daffies looking at the lake…

…and ramps and fiddleheads in the woods…

…along with the earliest trilliums…. All a wonderful balm for my soul.

I tried for an artsy shot of the cabin-to-lake view, and flubbed. You can see the rain barrel is not yet in position, and there are many untackled chores you can’t see (thankfully), many of which eventually got eliminated from the to-do list. We are so happy to be here and the sun warmed the front porch enough that we sat there between waves of chore-ing and to dine tonight, just soaking in the bird calls and the aura of agreeableness.

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Bug pile, east Defiance, Ohio.

Construction crew, southwest Archbold, Ohio.

Train, west Archbold, Ohio.

The Bridge, Straits of Mackinac.

Lake Huron, view east from St. Ignace.

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Today, I learned that along the eastern flank of the eastern Carpathians are an arc of salt springs. I was looking at ones near Hoisești and Negritești. Both have nearby Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlements, which, of course, is why I found out about the saline seeps.

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Apian proof. [See yesterday.]

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This was the sunset-ish view out the back; however, just after this we went out to repark both vehicles, and I caught the western view as I drove through the neighborhood, and I saw bright orange-red down near the horizon and almost half-way up the sky. That color makes this look faded and boring. Which it isn’t.

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At 6:50am, the sky had more light than color. The season is marching on.

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I spotted The Moment when the dawn-pinks were raging, although I didn’t linger to discover if the sky would get brighter.

We got to watch the sign painters in action while waiting at a traffic light.

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I do believe my basil is moving into blooming. Gotta change that. Pruning time!

Speaking of seasonal change in plants, we watched “The Madison,” and I got grumpy because the grass is all in late summer mode (dry, brown, and in seed), yet they found ripe strawberries in the garden. While strawberries come later there than farther south, they don’t come that late. Pretty sure.

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Here’s a wide-angle of the sky, now accumulating leaves.

These are new leaves at ground level. Later, these become almost leathery and stiff.

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