Tuesday, 15 May 2018
The early roses and the honeysuckle vine blossoms are blown, and the clematis and these gems, the gardenias, are the stars of gardens these days. Their scent is strong and in today’s oppressive humid air, it was strong enough to roost in your nostrils. [You get the idea.]
Monday, 14 May 2018
A wee bit of Goo-ing indicates that the fiddlehead is a stage of development, and not a particular species of fern (contrary to my youthful understanding…kids with access to the web live in such a different world than I grew up in*). This one is a lean specimen of fiddly-ness.
* This must be about the one-millionth™️[😎] time I’ve thought this.
Sunday, 13 May 2018
I had the idea of writing about…this thing. But, then I thought I’d write about this other thing. After several hours, that, too, was forgotten, and I moved on to some other thing. I think after that, several other things came to mind.
And now here I am, and none of those things are in my brain. So…nothing, it turns out, is the topic.
Saturday, 12 May 2018
I don’t remember this grassy area as being a former plot of bamboo, but the growth patterns suggest it was and I must have been looking the other way (or for traffic) all the other times I was here. Now, the bamboo is aggressively expanding its territory—boldly shooting up everywhere. I wonder how fast these shoots grow—a half-foot a day?
When I shot today’s neighborhood image, I was about the line of large-size toy vehicles to the (my) right of the front door, and the chairs on the left…overseeing the action. However, when I looked at the picture I thought: hey, is that a Weber grill on the roof? Second thought: must be a satellite dish…heh.
Friday, 11 May 2018
When I heard yesterday that today it would be 80°F by noon, I knew I had to walk early enough that the hot-beast was only breathing in spots of full sun. It rained overnight, so the humidity was outta sight. Whew! Got my steps in, however, and simultaneously avoided the air-crud that accumulates later in the day. [BTW, the Spices business has been closed and gone for months, since January, if I remember correctly. Must be that the rents are astronomical…as there’s plenty of foot-traffic during normal business hours, which you’d think otherwise would make this strip a good one for a store.]
Most photogenic flower today: this lily trio, decorated with a few droplets, and, I think, no insects this time.
Thursday, 10 May 2018
I’ve been smelling honeysuckle blooms the last few days—intense sometimes, perhaps intensified by the rain the other day. I can’t decide if I like the rich odor or it’s…too too too.
Today I found this stump, in a fresh-cut trio on a verge, with a few wood-shavings as evidence of the action. Redbud. Its…children…are striving for a come-back.
In neighborhood news, I caught the fire-truck returning from…?an airing? It pulled up in front of the station, in the street, and doors opened and guys got out, and directed the backup toward the inside parking spot. Fire-life returning to the waiting position.
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
These droplets are from “real” rain.
Yesterday. Also on colorful-leaf vegetation.
And in neighborhood fix-it news, the firehouse is getting new vent-tubing? Not sure of the purpose/function of this pile.
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
Plants typically have multiple names. For example, these look like lupines, but are not. They are in the greater legume family, however. They provided a good blue dye, hence their name: false indigo.
And this dogwood is the Korean type, aka kousa* dogwood.
* How did autocorrect change this word to “mouse”? Or, why is that a match? This is not the same kind of multiple names as with the false indigo….
Monday, 7 May 2018
Love the post in the shadows. Not a metaphor for Derby memories, but….
The mixers—there were two—were scheduled at seven AM, and they were noisy-busy for a while, then there was a lull (or did I get used to the noise????), then noisiness increased, I think from a generator/pump…which somehow became white noise to my ears. Sometime late in the day…quiet?
I will check out the results…tomorrow?
Sunday, 6 May 2018
For a long time I’ve thought this was Asian dayflower. Preferring to be right not wrong, I checked the vast database (of plant identification and so many other things) we call the internet, and presto! turns out this is another plant ID I had wrong (remember clematis? I do). It’s a spiderwort.
On my walk, I discovered a new Tesla charger powerwall power source* on this house. Must have been installed on Friday or yesterday. Bets on whether they cover it with the brick contact “paper”/vinyl?
Almost got this wrong, too! The Guru said: not a charger, and visited the same data source I did for the flower…so, I was wrong twice today. And now I’m on the correct path.