Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Mostly quiet rain today; not a bit of sun. Welcome to autumn.
And a visual mushroom sample, of the colorful ones, not the less flashy boletes.
I don’t know if this is a red one like yesterday, only older, and transitioned to orange/yellow. In any case, it’s also a small one, and embedded in sphagnum moss, unlike yesterday’s.
Thursday, 18 August 2016
Another thunderstorm is rumbling above, although no rain yet in this spot. Oooops; lightning flash!
So, not only do we have weather, I can report that the crepe myrtles are amidst their blooming phase. Here’s a glorious pink specimen.
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
Three high rollers, no?
Ice-cream-cone trailer, with sprinkles.
And, as we finally deviated from the Interstate, we drove into a gullywasher, with knee-deep water gushing across the city streets in some places. Didn’t last long, though—whew!
Thursday, 7 July 2016
This morning’s fog kept the sun from punching through until sometimes shortly after, maybe?, nine? Loved that it obscured the woods….
Foraged in the long grass for chives. I’ve been using them frequently…local farm-to-table produce, I guess….
Monday, 13 June 2016
I was out early this morning—another day predicted to get into the 90s (which became a fact). Not a good situation—this heat plus high humidity—for exercising…. So this is the morning sun getting ready to make air conditioners busy.
Friday, 20 May 2016
Did a family walk this morning, and escaped the threat of raindrops, against the odds. We found these flower spikes; I do not know what they are, but am attracted to the range of colors related to white, green, and grey-purple.
Late in the afternoon, we discovered that the tops of Midtown buildings were…obscured. We returned home safely, despite street after street of traffic.
Friday, 15 April 2016
Of the five castles/fortifications planned to protect the mouth of the River Fal, only two were built, and only this one has the flavor of its architectural roots from 1540–1542. This is St Mawes Castle.
It faces its much modified and much larger opposite number across the river-mouth, now Pendennis Castle.
The interior is mostly empty, although cannons still point out their special windows on the ground floor. On one floor curators have placed artful dummies who mostly look like they are waiting for the order to fire.
We opted to skip Falmouth and Pendennis Castle, taking a car-ferry, yippee! (Don’t remember seeing that icon before.)
Yup, the King Harry Ferry. £6 please, one way (£8 return, a great deal for those traveling in circles).
Found a town named Gweek. The car soon filled with no end of puns and word games.
This installation at Goonhilly is now technology so old the contract has been let to remove it. Last chance to see it….
Hiked out this long peninsula with two artificially narrowed bottlenecks. It was used as a fortified promontory fort in the Iron Age, or so They say. The name must have had the word “wind” in it in some form.
Lizard point is Cornwall’s and England’s southernmost (on the mainland). The name is from the pre-Celtic/Cornish lis meaning court and ard/ardh meaning high. The name thus refers to a locally important building here.
And, what a surprise, right there on the north side of Lizard (town)! Not green…just saying. [Sorry; sign says GREEN COTTAGE.]
Friday, 1 April 2016
Last night’s storms were…not too bad. For storms. You know how jumpy we are. I slept through the post-midnight line, but the early morning wave woke me…and I listened and drowsed after that….
As a result of all the rain, the fresh-petals of the azaleas got loaded, and they’re drooping to the ground on their flexible branchlets.
This shrub has sturdier, woodier limblets, and tinier blossoms, and it seems unscathed.
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Watching the weather…and bracing for serious wind and rain about midnight. [Deep breath. Exhale.]
Friday, 18 March 2016
When the weather is unseasonably HOT, Spring arrives at an accelerated rate.