Friday, 17 April 2015
It’s been rainy and cool, like spring, all day. The rains have been around so long that the ground is soggy.
Spring.
On the other hand, I used Thai basil from our new plant in last night’s dinner—it was already blooming! And here are healthy tomato buds, waiting for the precip to stop so they can open up and welcome pollinators.
Summer.
Aha. I have it. “Transitional.”
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Damage isn’t quite the right word. A storm changes things. Above this display, the tree is mostly leaves with only a few petals remaining airborne. And look at the petal-carpet! This is a very large and mature tree, and it was loaded with blooms…. Poor, frustrated tree…it’s an ornamental, so all that energy invested, and it’ll produce no fruit or offspring (via seed).
I’m pretty sure that rain/wind also brought down this wasp nest (it may not have been built/used by wasps, but that’s what I call these multi-celled nurseries). So delicate….
Yes, you are right to assume I got out for a walk—finally. Still have phlegm/cough, but better better! Good mental/emotional boost….
Monday, 6 April 2015
We drove through clouds for a while this afternoon. Some miles were pure pea-soup, and we could see almost nothing beyond a grey-white that hemmed us in. Other miles were a fog-blurred reality, with looming ghostly trees that, opposite expectations, honed my sense of what I was seeing, or at least that was my perception.
Friday, 3 April 2015
The redbud buds are being supplanted. I noticed today that the trees are producing real shade, spotty still, but shade. Some of that is from spring-parts and not leaves, however shade is shade on these sunny, warm days.
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Rain today brought changes—it downed pine (and other) pollen, and it downed magnolia petals…and petals of many hues. These are a type of deciduous magnolia with far larger petals than the ones I showed the other day. This tree was so prolific that it created a veritable carpet of petal-decay, still fresh when I strolled by in the mist, but no doubt chemically shifting to the brownish hues as the night marches on.
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
I did see my shadow twice today—very briefly!, although a meteorologist on Monday said no sun until Saturday. Still, it’s been mostly (super-mostly) cloudy. Despite what the light looks like here, the sun was NOT out when I took the photo, just almost out*….
* Somewhat analogous to William Goldman‘s “almost dead” in The Princess Bride. …I just finished reading Cary Elwes‘s memoir about the making of the movie version of the story, As You Wish… (2014).
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
This was the height of accumulation in this neighborhood (much like yesterday)…temps too warm for more, even in the late afternoon. This came from moments when there was sleet, snow, and rain, all together.
Now, north of the core metro area, they’re getting white stuff and freezing and yucky conditions. Here, the rain is reducing all to moisture. We’ll see what it’s like after midnight….
I heard that yesterday there was freezing fog (!!) in the metro, but I missed seeing that; I saw just the fog.
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
For a while this morning, we had white-icy accumulation at the same time it was drippy-raining. The temp allowed the rain to survive as wet, and the icy to remain frozen.
Tomorrow afternoon, we’re to expect the full-blown white stuff.
Reminder to self: Mid-day run to the “sto” before the weather turns….
Monday, 9 February 2015
Mostly, today was rainy and not-rainy-but-overcast. However, there were several blips of sunshine. This photo, however…a trick; it’s from the other day….
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Another nice day; these are the first daffies I have found a-bloom—a bit ahead of ours….
BeltLine report: another packed day.