Monday, 20 January 2020
Ignore the power lines. [I’m usually not attracted to greenish-yellows, but this array did not bother me, perhaps because of the golden tints?]
We’re amidst the coldest cold-snap of the season, meteorologists say. I’m welcoming the sun, that’s fo-sho.
Sunday, 19 January 2020
Sunday stroll with The Guru: highlight…a rainbow. Human-made-not natural, but in my book: a rainbow is a rainbow is a lovely event.
For a colorful chronicle, see The Guru’s narrative.
Saturday, 18 January 2020
Was this bloom turned down to avoid catching the rain-to-come? Was it sentient? 🤣😀😝
Friday, 17 January 2020
What a gorgeous dawn! Hate the neighbors’ McMansion dominates our early-day viewshed.
Hellebore buds. I understand that hellebore/lenten rose breeders have even developed dark shades.
I think of this as fringetree—wrong. It’s in the witch-hazel family, and is called Loropetalum. I certainly don’t scrutinize specimens closely enough to gauge botanical taxonomy.
Thursday, 16 January 2020
I’m skipping mention of the Big Doin’s going on in WashDC, and instead focusing on…small. And local.
These two blooms are from intertwined bushes. Do you see the different shades of pink? I wondered if the camera/iPhone would capture them. Conclusion: pink subtleties—capturable.
For thoughts on the Big Doin’s, visit The Guru’s comments in his resuscitated blog here.
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Have to start with the ultra-shiny gold Ford! Could NOT be shinier! Note: this is NOT a new model, and this is NOT the original paint.
I spotted it on my way to Old Fourth Ward Park. While the sun was out.
And the turtles gathered on this one rock. The one they can climb up on; the others are too steep-sided at the water level.
Coming back, this window was totally reflective to my eye, but my magic phone/camera did, I saw when I did the download….
Confession: I used two, count ’em two, wide-wide shots…must be a record??
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
I saw the green coming on the weather map, but I believed the meteorologist who said the rain would arrive around 11am (or maybe that’s not what he said). So, I scooted out around 10am thinking I could get a good stretch of hoofing before turning around and getting back under the roof before….
I noticed within the space of about forty paces that the sky ahead of me turned dark. Noticeably, not just kinda darkened. Oops. I didn’t get pelted, but I got wet by the time I returned. (I survived; I didn’t melt.)
The bees were smarter than I; they abandoned the rosemary and sought cover elsewhere (where?). The other day in the sunshine the bush buzzed there were so many bees busy there….
Monday, 13 January 2020
The two-kay mixed use complex on the other side of the connector is anchored, in a sense, by the blue-white place (aka Ikea)…
…and the red-white place (aka Tarzhay). We walked between the two…
…and saw for the first time on foot a two-kay arc de triomphe…which, surprisingly, has a museum downstairs. [Why?] That we didn’t enter, leaving a mystery.
Got passed by a three-locomotive train when we were afoot. Wooooo-ooooo.
Confession: only shopped in Ikea; bought batteries that the Guru wanted and a plastic cover for use in the microwave. They don’t last forever, you know.
Further confession: it was a grey grey grey day, overcast and precipitating…but, somehow, okay even so.
Saturday, 11 January 2020
The first outing doesn’t count, blogwise. Errands.
The second outing: a walk. I dodged raindrops for most of it (truncated), but the precip caught me about 10 min before I got to the front door. A bit damp…
…but nothing like the rain that accompanied the front that came through just as we were leaving for our dinner reservation, moving at 60mph. Whew. So, we got seated, ordered a bottle of prosecco, and immersed ourselves in chatting and laughing. Great fun.
* Credit to JPB for the riff on Dry January.
