Musings

Walking through the swamp, I found many puddles because it rained off and on for the previous dozen hours or so. This was the only puddle a vehicle hadn’t run through and churned up. Clarity!

And this was the hyper-green view toward Mud Lake, although all you can see is the creek, narrow and supporting a substantial population of duckweed with its tiny leaves. That’s not the name of the body of water on the Goo-Maps, but that’s the name I learned. And it is a shallow, filling, hummock-rimmed pond-lake, so it’s an appropriate name. I think the Goo-name is from non-locals…my pet hypothesis.

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A major milestone, really mile-bridge: crossing The Big Mac. Which we called it before that burger got the name.

I fussed about how big the line would be at the toll plaza, but, zip. Or maybe a half-dozen vehicles. At other times we’ve waited as much as 20 minutes. Also, the maintenance crews that usually block one lane were not working. Lovely traffic flow!

However, in the middle of nowhere—almost, really the west edge of Naubinway, no traffic getting through east or west. Never did figure out what had happened. No trash on the road, no crushed vehicles, no ambulances.

Where we were stopped, we watched a little drama play out. Someone driving a pickup pulling perhaps a 30-foot travel trailer decided to turn around to escape the halted line. He was particularly unskilled. Someone got him back into traffic the first time he tried to back the trailer up. But five minutes later he tried to make a u-turn forward. The pickup ended up across the deep-ish ditch, with the rear wheels in the deepest part of the ditch, all wheels turning with no purchase, and the front end of the trailer laying on the gravel road-side, and some of the plastic plumbing flopping loose. Scratch one expensive travel trailer.

So glad to be at the cottage. Lake very placid. Expecting overnight lows in the upper 50s. Also, there’s been rain since we left, so plants are back to green.

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I thought I might write about This Thing. But it seemed Way Too serious, so I considered This Other Thing.

Same problem.

So, here’s some color instead. It seems very upbeat and positive.

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In general, humans tend to pattern recognition.

Here’re a pair of architectural detail patterns, the kind that aren’t typically included in a book of architectural details. I especially like the flanking solar lights.

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Still glorying in lily season. Particularly enjoying the deep red orange hues. Other years I’ve loved the pale yellows more. Why the change?

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I watched and heard a spate of tree removal and trimming early in the spring, and there’s another round underway this week. That hollow, rotten core means this tree was a goner if it hadn’t been removed.

I saw the title on a t-shirt back in 2019…had to use it myself. Or am I repeating myself? Oh, well, it’s a keeper line.

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Last night we became temporary keepers of a fern forest and assorted house plants. Fingers crossed that they thrive for the next two weeks and the rodents don’t…dig them up.

Today I continued my week of accidentally triggering my phone to act one way or another on my behalf. Got an arty shot of it!

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I walked later than I would have preferred (heat, humidity), but that’s the way it goes sometimes. Because it was later, I found shadows, which is to say: I found more sunshine along my route. With this shot, however, I think in terms of shadows. What does this indicate about my personality or world-perspective? Unk.

And I did find some gorgeous flower posing, thank you Mr. Sun.

I assumed, given the amount of spring tree trimming and cutting, that our neighborhood had been cropped into great shape until, what?, perhaps this fall. But, no. I encountered at least three different tree-reduction crews today. And I assume that was a small sample of those roaming Our Fair City.

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How many insects? I get five. Trumpet 😏 your count!

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We had a great evening celebrating our three Atlanta family June birthdays. We were tasked with bringing the mint chip ice cream, which the Guru selected. Only the fact that he chose Tillamook, and it is not green caused extensive discussion. Seems like purists would be fine with white mint choc chip ice cream.

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