Summer bounty still green, but pale
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Afternoon pop-up storms are good for the ’maters, but may be accompanied by hail and/or lightning, which are scary. And wind.
Due to requests, I’ve posted yesterday’s recipe here.
Musings
Weather watch: rain cells
Friday, 11 June 2010
We came down US127 through much of Ohio, and passed through the bottom of a goodly storm cell. We drove through hard rain for maybe fifteen minutes—that would be fifteen LONG minutes. Lesser rain lasted for, maybe another forty minutes. The rain in this cell came down so hard that it was standing in the fields, making the corn little green sprigs in a flowing lake. (I don’t know if this was the tag end of the Texas/Arkansas storm.)
The other notable cell we passed beneath was this one, in Kentucky. We were a bit buffeted by the wind by this one, whereas during the Ohio one we just noticed downdrafts, but not lateral winds.
Weather watching (from small house)
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Posting early today; whimsy I guess. Rain came in overnight, drippy and good for the plants, although the accompanying cool temps slow them down.
When you’re inhabiting a small house, your living space extends to the out-of-doors, so you watch the weather a lot (or maybe I’m just talking me here). The breeze is kicking up a tad, but the lake still merely has riffles. Inbound, not offshore.
Anyway, the lupines are showing off another of their talents by catching water droplets in their leaves.
Spreading weeds
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Arum maculatum, which has poisonous berries…. Hmm.
This stuff is spreading! It’s a trio now!
I guess I should have expected that, since somehow it appeared in my garden.
Note that this plant was at the same stage on 7 May last year. For whatever it’s worth….
The meaning of “weed” in the title is from The Botanist: “any plant that’s growing where you don’t want it.”
Wet-day
Monday, 3 May 2010
From a pre-rain visit to Lake Clara Meer, the algae is already…visible….
Recently the Ma-Nature stories were about the deep earth: volcanoes and earthquakes.
We’ve transitioned to liquids: precip (and more precip) and the (human-induced) oil flow.
Around here, we saw the rain. Lots of it. Not much sleep last night when the first bad spell pounded us, but there ya go!
Keep your eyes peeled
Sunday, 2 May 2010
I trust even the rodents noticed today’s weird weather—warm and windy. Supposed to be worse tomorrow.
Timing
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Our redbud, in the photograph, is almost a week behind the neighbors’, which is already beginning to lose petals. Not suprisingly, the two are different varieties….
Meanwhile, the garden needs rain and the pollen is here in force, a yellow cast to every slick-painted vehicle, and more…, so we need rain to wash it away, too.
Nice weather!
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
We had such a nice day today, it’s hard to imagine the rain they’re getting in the NE*.
My suspicion is that we’ll breeze through the early spring. Already it seems like it’s moving quickly. Time to get some plants? I need more herbs this year, to go with the ‘maters & peppers….
* No garbage-bag raincoats/pants here….
The hills are almost alive
Monday, 22 March 2010
We traversed a big swath of Appalachia today, from central Ohio to West Virgina, a corner of Virginia, and across North Carolina. At higher elevations, the rain we found intermittently became wet flakes, and the windshield wipers were slapping time…. Thankfully the mild squeak in one blade didn’t begin until the last fifty miles, when I was napping (actually, sleeping soundly, I admit!) and the Guru was piloting….
Sunny (almost) spring
Thursday, 18 March 2010
We very much enjoyed a yard-tour in the sun, although most of the plants reveal that spring is merely on the cusp of arriving.
Meteorologists predict we should await more frozen precip in the near future….