Saturday, 23 December 2023
Two days after Thanksgiving, this lot was full of trees, and even some wreaths, most under large and extra-large tents. Two days ago, there were seven trees left. Today, I saw two, and one outside the fence leaning against the porte-potty (why?). Now, the tents are gone and just detritus remains.
Also, we visited two grocery stores, and neither had fresh cranberries.
Wednesday, 20 December 2023
Ivy survivor.
BTW, this wall of horizontally laid, treated-wood beams is over six feet tall, and the ivy is about two feet up from the base. How? [And it’s the only one.]
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
I ventured out mid-afternoon to make Vitamin D, pushing up my sleeves a bit and waving my hands while walking into the sun…until I had to turn around.
Monday, 18 December 2023
Metal that degrades with this green color must have copper in it…not all copper, just some. It’s called verdigris. It was a scaly, peeling kinda day, and I’m “still processing,” as the phrase goes.
Friday, 15 December 2023
It seems to me that it’s flirting with failure for fruit trees to bloom in December, but this is probably an ornamental plum/peach/cherry/something that doesn’t set fruit anyway, so…the tree “thinks:” why not? Let’s go for it!
When I placed this order on early Wednesday morning, Amazon promised delivery on Thurs/yesterday by 10 pm. Not. Then, the promise was updated to today by 9 pm. Not. Now, Amazon’s enlisted UPS to get it to us…and are promising it by the 19th…and if we don’t receive it then, far more of this page was allocated to telling us how to wrangle a refund. Har.
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
We’ve a weather change coming late this week—perhaps three days of rain, so I thought I’d be sure to get out and enjoy the sunshine today…and get some perspective.
Sunday, 26 November 2023
Ginkgo leaf drop report: mostly attached, yet plenty have fallen.
Two weeks ago, folks were setting this seasonal business establishment up. Today, business boomed.
Saturday, 25 November 2023
Once again you can see my lack of skill at making artsy shots. The shot I attempted had a single light in the foreground and the background out of focus. Instead, it was all to some degree out of focus. Ironic funny. And, instead, I got this random roaming shot of the context of the lights.
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
I went back to 2015 in the Great Photo Archive in The Cloud (GPATC), and found this lovely CanGoose image…since I took no (interesting) photographs today.
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
My new shoes arrived yesterday in the late afternoon. They’re Salomons. I didn’t care about the brand so much, but these have a stiffer sole and are good for trails, and also not the squishy sole that a running shoe needs.
We had The Brother of Seattle here for a day, and we took a roam this afternoon, and I have now logged three miles in my New Shoes. And, en route, we found ladybugs of many hues on a crepe myrtle. Now he’s flying back to the Left Coast.