Musings

Peony bud tight

Nascent spring: peony version.

Bluebell cluster

Fading spring: bluebell version.

Capital improvement failure

Capital improvement…failure: water department version. A crew just fixed this.

Comment in parens

White iris wet

Again: lots of overnight rain. (White iris this time.)

Garbage in road

Enough rain to wash this garbage can out into the street. (I moved it to the sidewalk.)

Construction zone

Down the street in the last shot, a Sunday-quiet construction zone. (Never figured out what the hose was for.)

Iris variants

Iris wet

Wet iris. Yesterday. Just puddling.

Iris dry

Dry iris. Today. Wearing lady-bugs.

Iris special

Delicate, feathery iris. The champ.

Transition Friday

Oak pool

Overnight rain created this pool…

Pollen deposits

and washed the pollen downstream. The air smelled almost clean-pristine, almost because the plants are continuing to pump out the pollen…

Cloud on mtn

so we headed for the mountains. Where the clouds still bedecked the ridges…

Mountain cleared

another hour later, and clear skies!

Toast you

To you!

Dusk yonah

By dusk, we had a great view of Mount Yonah. That’s not the moon, just the reflection of a ceiling light.

And now I will transition to bed…yawn.

Apologies for keystoning

Flowers all levels

I wasn’t going to “do” flowers today, but these two charmed me back to my long-time favorite theme.

Lovely tangerine azalea

See! Charming-pretty!

On/near the BeltLine

Kroger fenced

We’ve had baseball’s opening day, now we’re awaiting opening day for the revised, revamped, and rebuilt-from-the-ground-up BeltLine Kroger. Must be nearing as the signage is up!

Turtle island

Down in the pool in O4W park, the fake geyser was off and the turtles had made the nozzle and it rock island their own. Good sign the pool has turtles! Means there’s sufficient turtle food, no?

Wisteria cluster

Today’s flower-foto…wisteria.

Toodling along

White dogwood fleur(Ornamental?) white dogwood bloom.

The power washing saga continues; we’re doing a bit at a time. And the crud levels are high! More awaits, however.

The parking narcing shrouds remain in place.

April Fools’

Free parking

See that black mini-monolith off to the right? That’s a shrouded parking narcing machine. All the machines in our neighborhood were sporting them today…which means:

Free parking!

Pretty expensive to buy all those shrouds and send a crew around tying them on. Must be a business deal negotiation snafu and not an April Fools’ hoax—my bet, anyway.

Pine straw detail

Have you ever seen this edge detail on pine straw? I watched a guy do it several years back, a nice little flick of the wrists after he caught the errant needles with a shovel. I think it’s to keep the pine straw neater, but also to give them an edge that the yard-guys can preserve when they use a mower and blower.

Culture today, and no flower. Heh.

Overcast, mostly

Azalea beginning to fade

Can you tell I’m enamored of this type of azalea? The flowers are just beginning to fade, it seems, and these droopers are the first obvious sign.

Red dogwood opening

Meanwhile, a few steps away, this red dogwood’s blooms are beginning to open. Cycle of the flowers, no?

Pressure washing new boots

My fancy new boots excelled at their first chore: pressure washing! Hate that the concrete gets a slathering of mildew and mold or whatever. Looks nasty and may become slippery under certain conditions. New pressure washer, delivered today from Amazzzing, has color-coded tips. The yellow fits in with the yellow pine pollen that’s raining down on us, no?

Look!

String

Saw this out of the corner of my eye and thought: Spanish moss! What’s it doing here???!!! So wrong. String.

Hanging flowers

Today’s flower picture. Not sure the name (common or scientific).