Musings

I looked behind me soon after I left the house on my dawn-ish walk and I saw the sun had almost arrived.

I rounded a couple of corners, tromp tromp, and I saw the almost-up sun illuminating the firehouse floor.

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I can’t even bring myself to think about what all these shenanigans emanating from the White House are costing us, and I don’t mean money so much as good will and esteem, and things like that. Instead, I’ll think about the pollen count or something else that’s very positive. 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Here’s photo confirmation of color showing in our neighbor-peonies that we enjoy every time we stroll our driveway.

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I’m honoring flower-season with today’s pictures. We have neighbors who have lovely banks/beds of flowering pretties, like this.

Here’s an azalea carpet, but it isn’t a carpet because it’s mostly the top of the shrubbery…actually, a whole line of foundation-planting shrubberies in front of an institutional building…not in our neighborhood.

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When I look down from my bedroom in the dark hours, this azalea looks like a snow bank.

Speaking of weather, we may hit 90°F by the end of the work-week, but next week is predicted to have days that don’t reach 60°F. Yikes.

Posted at 9:34 PM | Comments Off on Illusions and facts

A windy, rainy storm came through, and the trees dropped a mini-forest of green bits.

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This is the kind of snowballs we have around here these days. (I think it’s a kind of viburnum.)

Posted at 9:55 PM | Comments Off on Context

Here’s a most useful souvenir from our trip. We cut many snacks—fruit, cheese, bread, sausages…mmm. And it’s still useful now that we’re back home. [BTW, that’s a large reddish.]

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We headed out for weekend grocs, and found four emergency vehicles in front of TJs—two fire trucks, one ambulance, and one SUV. We entered the store, but didn’t see any evidence of what the crisis had been.

So, we shopped, paid, and left.

Posted at 9:47 PM | Comments Off on Minor mystery remains

I found full-out dogwoods today, and had my first sighting of yellow pine pollen dried puddle rims…that is: pine pollen that’s yellow, and not (as far as I know) the pollen of yellow pines.

Posted at 10:42 PM | Comments Off on Dogwood blooms