Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Workers are reloading new shelving units in our upgraded local TJs, including the fridges. We saw one fella working from photos to get the cheese layout correct…or at least familiar to the shoppers (and stockers).
Saturday, 12 April 2025
Until today when I dug into The Great Database In The Cloud, I didn’t know that fringetrees are native to greater eastern North America(ish), including the Southeast. And here’s a specimen to delight and amaze!
Friday, 11 April 2025
We strolled around the lake at Old Fourth Ward Park…
…and encountered a napping mallard family…
…and a pair of large-ish turtles…that may be a family, also…we couldn’t tell.
Thursday, 10 April 2025
I guess these are called flowers; certainly, they look like them, like tulips…hence, the common name: tulip poplar. The trees are darned tall, so I only ever see the fleurs on the ground, or, here, on a sidewalk.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Over last week and the weekend we binge-watched “The Residence,” which we thoroughly enjoyed…and recommend. Tonight, we tried the first episode of “The Mountain Detective,” which took us to terrain (French Alps) we haven’t visited…interesting, and worth seeing another episode…a plan for tomorrow.
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
Every spring these days, I find myself surprised at the yellowy green of the new growth…and then I forget to watch it transition to the dark green that the plant will sport for…well, for years, or, I think its lifetime.
The Botanist always called these types of evergreens Taxus, and I never thought anything about it—I simply internalized that these are Taxus. I just looked it up and that’s the genus (aha!), while the common name in English is yew. There’s plenty of variation among the Taxus species, so the most efficient name is…tada…Taxus, when you’re not sure which species you’re looking at. Ah, taxonomy.
Perhaps I should have saved this post for the 15th? 🤣 🤣 🤣
Monday, 7 April 2025
The rain continued all night and into the morning, then stopped, then restarted for part of the afternoon. Yeesh. During that time, it seems like the trees did a huge amount of leafing out (this was when it was still raining and the fresh, new leaves were limp with precipitation weighting them down).
