Musings

I live in a bubble, so was not familiar with the phrasing I heard applied to Apple today…it’s now a four-comma (club) company. [This has nothing to do with dependent or independent clauses, etc.]

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I think this is the closest I got to seeing Mr. Sun today. This version is decorating a wall along a sidewalk a few blocks from here where I don’t usually walk, and I’d forgotten he was here. I may already have used a photo of this sun-art some years back.

Rain last night…enough to weigh down the blossom-branches of the crepe myrtles.

Speaking of sidewalk detritus, I was walking under a canopy tree and heard noise above me, too much for a squirrel, so I scooted along the sidewalk to not be under the noise, and turned around in time to see a 2-inch rotten branch fall to the sidewalk. Good thing the foot is making such good progress—I actually could accelerate!

Posted at 7:17 PM | Comments Off on Tales from the sidewalk

Title refers to our current weather pattern, of course. We’ve got moisture trapped around us, coming down from this afternoon on for a while…off and on.

This morning was clear and I got out. Never noticed this herb-planted driveway before. Note black cat lounging back near the garage; wouldn’t look at me.

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The ripening pine cones must just have hit the tasty point for the squirrels, as underneath this pine tree was a litter of pine cone detritus and naked, gnawed cone cores.

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I got a tune-up from my genius neighbor today (thank you thank you), focusing on what I would call the central arch muscles—in relatively subtle ways. The new motions I’m working on involve some interesting moves with the “good foot” to enable the “healing foot” to stretch and strengthen. At the red band level.

This is what progress looks like a year from surgery! Yay and yay!

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Started thinking about Verona today. Discovered it has had five major lines of expanding city walls…of all things.

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I found this giant yellowing leaf in the sidewalk planting by that house a few blocks away whose people turned the lot next door (after a tear-down) into a garden (nice extra greenspace for the rest of us…). I forget what the plant is. Leaf is maybe a yard across….

This is what I think of as a small hibiscus bloom. Some are salad-plate sized, but this one is only about three inches across. Retro.

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I’m such a sucker for new vocabulary words. I like those adopted from another language. And I sometimes have a soft spot for technical/specific vocabularies. Today I came across this term for a particular leaf vein pattern: campylodromous. Of course, when I did some research, it turns out there are a whole suite of vein pattern classification-names that I don’t remember seeing before. Not that useful, but descriptive terms, yeah…soft spot. [Details: see Wkeepee here.]

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What circuits are crossed up in my brain that I’m thinking that time is stopped (dog days of summer) and cycling (azaleas are blooming again) simultaneously?

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My hypothesis is that the Kroger buyer who nabbed these very expensive ceramic grimaces has already been…fired? sequestered? downsized?

And how to store????? After the holiday AND until the holiday! After all it’s JULY!

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