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….
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.
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….
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!”?
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?
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.
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.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Both thermometers reported that temps topped 80°F today; something’s not right (this is MARCH)! I found it just too hot to finish the raspberries…(lazy me).
So glad there’re leftovers in the fridge….
Monday, 12 March 2012
Lilacs in winter mode.
We basked in the sun again! Lilacs are early-bloomers, but there’s no sense of that today, even though the grass is greening and I saw a yard-full of delicate snowdrops on Saturday.
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Wind. I grew up with it as a daily condition, at least seasonally. Maybe not always wind, but a breeze, surely. I guess it’s a component of the lake effect and a mid-continent thing. Not so much in the ATL area. Especially not the cutting winter wind we’ve had the last few days (and nights).
Today, I’m especially glad that the sun is glorious!—and counteracting the wind…at least as I look out at it from a warm house (exterior temp about 34°F)—teehee.
Contrast this to Wednesday’s view, on an overcast and grey day.