Musings

Today was an appetizer…and these are blue cheese-stuffed date with almonds and marinated deviled egg stuffed with hummus. Mmmmmmm. 🥚

Posted at 9:44 PM | Comments Off on Double meaning

I looked at this when I took it, and thought it’s that blue-pink pH thing. Then I thought hmmmm what’s pH stand for? I had college chemistry, so, geeze I should have been told this/read it. Okay, WikiPee, what’s it stand for? Turns out there’s no clear answer. Guess that’s why I don’t remember!

Chalk cat. Not to be confused with a hill figure (Brit.).

Posted at 7:40 PM | Comments Off on Color musings

I do love ferns. So delicate.

A fellow was unloading a Sysco truck…is it true that every restaurant needs split box products? Popotes I understand—those are drinking straws in Mexican Spanish, a corruption of the Nahuatl/Aztec word for the plant stem used to make sweeping-brooms.

Realized I didn’t know the Spanish for fern—heh; turns out it’s helecho.

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Doncha love backlighting?

Doncha love a blue sky?

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After the rain stops, insects get busy. I think of this as an anthill, but that’s a large passage for a typical ant. Ah, the rain has changed the ants, and now they’re mega-ants! 😃

This was unexpected…you can’t tell, but the reflection on this first-floor wall is from a window in the upper story of the opposite building. I guess the angles work, but on first glance I didn’t intuit that the window-ghost would be projected at a downward angle.

Or, if you prefer Bill Nye science, check out the latest John Oliver….

Posted at 6:48 PM | Comments Off on Unexpected science

We had a lot of rain overnight, the kind that can weigh down a yucca bloom-spike. We had rain after I took this this morning, too, but I think it’s over for now.

I was surprised by this white blob above my head, amidst the glistening dark green leaves. Aha! Magnolia!

Basil clipped for dinner…then snipped atop pasta with a tomato sauce.

Even found mozzarella di bufala (that is: water buffalo milk, not cow’s, in soft cheese balls) to also add. BTW, the pasta sauce had bison meat in it. And we also added parmesano reggiano—cow’s milk cheese. I wasn’t going for species diversity in our protein sources, but that’s what we got.

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I’m used to tall, volunteer daisies; this is a city cousin that probably came out of a green house. Still: all daisy-ness is happy-making.

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These just opened since Wednesday, and the buds are still coming. Yay! Gardenias smell so wonderful.

Look! Insect! A fennel redbug? heheh

Posted at 7:20 PM | Comments Off on Out front

Neighbor hydrangea. Just opening.

Redbud leaves. Full term.

This good-and-evil statue replica looks like a tired farmworker. Not a party animal. Or an after-party attendee.

Posted at 5:34 PM | Comments Off on Rain just started

Yarrow. Again: yarrow. Why do I keep thinking tansy? Tansy is yellow-gold!

I see four vines in here: poison ivy, Virginia creeper, Boston ivy (or similar), and something that reminds me of a grapevine, but isn’t, and I don’t know what it is.

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. Archie? I get that the Harrison is an unsubtle nod to dad, but Archie? Not even Archibald? Actually, the latter is even more awkward, graceless, and inelegant than Archie. Hey, he’s both a British royal (we know) and an American (we assume), so wee Archie will probably pull his name off with ease.

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