Musings

I reached back in the photo archives and grabbed this from a mall visit in 2015. Also, the archives reminded me that on this day last year, we returned from Quito.

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I’m in a delay phase in posting, I guess…have a pretty flower.

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Basket o’fun socializing in Athens.

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I think we’re through the last of the waves of weather, the rainy and windy kind, for a while.

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Rain overnight filled this tree-pond. Then we had a weather-normal(ish) day (hot, humid). Those storms took out power lotsa places, but not here (knock on wood). They also brought down tree parts. The largest branch I saw down was in the street a few houses away, and the city crew was cleaning it up by 8:10am. Whew.

Now, we’re having rain again as a front came through and is still dragging the precip along. My phone beeped with a flooding alert, but it won’t get to our house. Behind this mess, we’re supposed to get cool(ish) temps and lower humidity. I can hardly wait.

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When the sky darkens at 6:20 in the evening in the summer, get worried. That’s how I look at it. And the darkening preceded a storm front, as you might expect. The front came through with blasts of wind, and kept going, with the wind fading, then some rain, then ho-hum.

And I exhaled. All is well again.

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The predicted overnight rain never materialized, but the air shifted and the AQ improved…so I went for a wee walk, returning before seven (!), because hot. humid.

Plenty of neighborhood water systems nevertheless kicked on…in this case weighing down these limp grasses. Are they grasses? They look like it.

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Air Quality was poor today, with high haze. I stayed inside and felt…a bit guilty…but healthy (hah!). A storm’s supposed to come through tonight and into the morning, and disperse the haze.

I have a short-term perspective on this. Exercise tomorrow? Wait and see….

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With delicate, dissected leaves (that do not look like most leaves), the fennel also has wispy flowers. Perhaps counterintuitively, they don’t make seeds but fruits that to me look like seeds.

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Our lovely neighbor brought over hot-from-the-oven jalapeño cornbread yesterday. We had the leftovers with melted cheese today. Yum and yum.

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