Musings

Drippy kinda day…yet I managed to get out between waves of mistiness and showers. We’re in the floral doldrums, and this droplet bedecked blossom is brilliant amidst the drab brown.

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I often think of WashDC when I see cherry (are these cherry?) blossoms. Bouquets in WashDC today, but at noon: minus forty-five.

I did not think this line up, yet I admit I’ve been giggling about it since I came across it last evening. Truth.

Posted at 8:33 PM | Comments Off on Change-over

For the most part, the last five weeks or so I’ve been doing the same loop through the neighborhood on my walk, one direction or the reverse…mostly what was originally the reverse, lately, and is now the way I go.

Things change, however.

Today I ventured down to this relative high spot where I can see mid-town…here over a security fence. Can’t help thinking about security today (the birthday of an assassinated man), and this week (hopefully without another assassination)….

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Well, now. I looked at the moss on this log and thought, oh, nice. Then I spotted the feather, and though: geeze, how’d that happen?

Posted at 9:45 PM | Comments Off on Minor feather mystery

It seems that some folks sent to WashDC by voters who couldn’t previously do so found their “big-boy” pants today, and did the right thing.

The beech branch/tree in the photo is not implicated in the action discussed above.

Posted at 10:11 PM | Comments Off on Twice

Back in the Late Middle Ages™ when I lived in the Midwest, the clothing of the seasons transitioning to and from winter included a plaid long-sleeved shirt of some kind, perhaps a vest, and a tame color scheme that worked with and did not contrast with blue-jeans.

Looks like, without trying, I ticked all the boxes today.

However, what does it mean that by the end of my walk I had removed the vest and the plaid, and was down to my long-sleeved cotton T with a screen-printed design that promotes the UP?…as I lumbered along.

Posted at 9:35 PM | Comments Off on Good old days…today

We received a postcard today from a well-meaning sender: please vote in the Senatorial election, and please vote for Warnock and Ossoff. That is: the election of the 5th of Jan.

Yeah, the Republicans messed up the PO…and we got a Republican Party “Please Vote” mailing on Saturday (that is, on the 9th, well after the election). So the Republican Party did not believe that the Republican disruption of the PO would delay their mailings.

I cannot parse all this.

Also: do not stay on the bench.

Posted at 8:47 PM | Comments Off on Timing

Here’s another specimen that blooms earlier than its brethren—a rhododendron! The Interweb reports that (somewhere?) it symbolizes danger. However, I’d say this one’s in danger—of frost and cold weather!

Posted at 6:43 PM | Comments Off on Situational floristry

Well, now; my yesterday oops meant we spent our money from the Pres, that really came from you and me and you and you and you over there, too. And some savings.

Woo-hoo.

And this consumer jaunt meant We Went To The Mall. We had a mission: to pick up a new laptop. We parked, we went in headed to the Apple Store…which was no longer across from Macy’s…wha?

Oh, “down the hall.” Cast our penetrating gazes about…there THERE it is!

But, nice lady says, no, you want downstairs…wha? Apple Store is now on two levels (mall has three). So much for our in-and-out without distraction strategy.

DOWNstairs. Yup. Nice man made the transaction happen…while I peeked around the corner at the new-device check-out area, presently closed to consumers because…Covid.

The six lovely trees poke up into the second story space reserved for tech assistance. Yay, nature.

In mall behavior footnote: every—EVERY—one I saw was wearing a mask. HOWEVER. Most people were wandering lackadaisically about…having totally missed the message AFTER Wear A Mask…the one that went: and Stay At Home and Away From Other People.

No wonder Covid rates are phenomenally high.

In other news, today I found an Iron Age twirly-horned cow sculpture behind a fence. That’s what I’m calling it.

Although: perhaps a lady-aurochs not a cow.

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Apple is after me to join their Fitness+, which I get free* for three months. I got a demo the other day, yet remain unconvinced that I can tolerate recorded coaching, exercising with a group and indoors in front of a screen, and the rah-rah approach.

Just sign up and try a new experience anyway? Ignore distressing memories of 8th-grade gym class?

* That it’s a fund-raising proposition may be what bothers me the most….

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Simple or complex?