Blue—from cold?
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Overcast and decidedly cool today; we’ll start the fire soon and boost the temp from the 62°F-ish it’s hanging at in the living room today.
Musings
Not all rain
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
We’ve been through several cycles of sun–clouds–rain today, so we know our rain dances worked. Isn’t that the way logic operates?
The rain is essential especially up on the Lake Superior shore, where a fire has burned over 20K acres and dozens of buildings, and is still going, fanned lately by the same weather system that brought rain.
Breeze kicking up
Thursday, 17 May 2012
The wind’s a-flurry and the TV meteorologists are showing maps with electric green and yellow and orange, and there’s talk of hail north and west of us. Hopefully, it’ll stay in someone else’s back yard, and not shred our azaleas—which are abloom in round two for this summer.
Rainbow message?
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Morning of April third. See how the rainbow is aligned with the garden?
This is the first sunshine I saw after The Botanist died. A part of me wonders if this is a communication from the gardener at the Great Garden Elsewhere….
Frost variables: asparagus
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
The promised frost did hit our piece of the planet earth in the wee hours, and I’ll be having translucent asparagus with lunch, since I didn’t get them picked yesterday. The color was just gorgeous as the sun shone through the stem. Little guys, like the one on the right, and pencil-thin specimens, like the one on the left, made it through okay.
Duck, peaches!
Monday, 26 March 2012
We are warned to expect frost tonight. Blossoms are rather susceptible; we’ll see how this peach fares—although the Botanist says the peaches this tree produces aren’t worth it.
I’m sorry; gotta go. I see the asparagus patch needs picking again….
What be this?
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Raspberry cane sporting an…accoutrement.
Did more raspberry cane removal. Not quite finished because I switched to the asparagus bed. Did find a this-year’s-asparagus crowning the soil.
Can you say “spring!”?
Springing underway: lilac
Friday, 16 March 2012
Just four days ago, on the 12th, I posted a photo of the lilac, with dry, winter branches. Just look at them now!
And the caption: “Season’s turning: mostly not yet”—I’m into irony?? Is it really MARCH? In MICHIGAN?
Wild weather…elsewhere
Friday, 16 March 2012
Yesterday’s late-day shot, it turns out, was of a storm a-brewing (10-mile tornado swath through Dexter, details here), and this morning we’re enrobed in fog.
UPDATE: twenty minutes later, the fog is thicker…. SECOND UPDATE: forty minutes later—even thicker!, but more light.
Sky variability: sun to grey to sun
Thursday, 15 March 2012
The sky doesn’t match, right at the moment. This cloud pattern is opposite the descending sun, and lit by it. The sun is slightly obscured by clouds, but bright enough. To the south it is homogenous grey and almost storm-like. To the north it is bright.