Musings

No stormy around here…all sunny and humid.

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We’re approaching the cusp of summer. I say approaching because there’s still a spring green tinge to the tree-leaves.

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One of the possible tags I have selected for my posts is “architecture.” How can it not be eye-catching…especially large interior spaces of which this is an example.

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Our neighbor grew up outside of Lexington and has a party every year guess when. I love the juleps and fresh mint the best. All I can tell about the horse race this year is that it was a photo-finish…if they haven’t replaced that technology and thus the phrase.

Our hostess is quite the gardener, and my plant ID app thinks this is a bellflower. It don’t know what it is, but I’m pretty sure it is not a bellflower.

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We had several hours with my brother today. He was here for meetings downtown. He said he’d like to get outdoors and walk a bit before the hours he’d be spending sitting in a plane returning to SEA. So, we took him to Piedmont Park (not original, but almost always rewarding), where we found lunch and some off-white plant specimens.

The upper photo is of a long hydrangea bloom, its weight bringing it horizontal. This one is what I think is cottonwood “cotton”…with a slightly green tinge.

We had a grand time, and also saw ducks and geese and turtles, a few dogs, and many people strolling and generally enjoying the afternoon. Just as we did.

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I spotted the first blooming dogwood I’ve noticed this year…

…and this reminded me of a European scenario.

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What has happened to the year? Zooooooooom. It’s May…MAY. I know this, but at a deep level, I’m not there yet. Similarly, I’m not quite groking that it is foxglove season yet.

Posted at 9:57 PM | Comments Off on Month five

On a typical day in this household, we lack scheduled activities (say: retirees). Today, we acted! We early voted, no small thing because there was a long slate of offices needing consideration, although many were unopposed, incumbent judges 🙁.

The second activity was I went to an outdoor meeting of BookClub. The evening sky was fabulous from the poolhouse (autocorrected temporarily to poorhouse 🤣). We talked about “The Women” by Kristin Hannah, a novel about American women nurses in Vietnam in the late 60s. We had a retired nurse from slightly earlier among us, and so a fascinating discussion. She was more in and near Saigon than Hannah’s nurses, so the nursing was slightly different, but still: war. Excellent read.

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It’s a leaf, sure, but if you squint, it almost looks like corrugated velvet.

Posted at 10:47 PM | Comments Off on The green

When the morning sky looks this captivating, ya just gotta smile.

Posted at 11:09 PM | Comments Off on Even before coffee