About 10:30 Wednesday night, I was ready to pack it in: tired and frazzled from a day spent largely looking for chargers to recharge chargers for phone & Ipad, and then charging the devices while circling in the Fair Wendy’s air-conditioned EV, and buying drippy bags of ice from a darkened but open vape shop … Continue reading After the Sudden Storm: Minding the Light Again!
Outside our kitchen door, a single daisy has appeared. Daisies are generally pretty good at standing up for themselves. But our Daisy faces a very serious challenge; she appeared in the middle of a larger patch of very pushy, one might even say aggressive and imperialistic morning glories.
The stump & the wild strawberry: Tuesday it was my difficult duty to explain to a great-granddaughter that wild strawberries look good, but don’t taste good. Later this year, or maybe next, I may have to address her definite suspicion that not long after Thanksgiving, her grandpa turns into Santa Claus . . . . … Continue reading In The Yard: The Stump, the Wild Strawberry & the Pollinators’ Friend
In many parts of the world, May 1 is Labor Day, a holiday, and observances typically have a noticeably leftwing or socialist character. But the U. S. Doesn’t recognize such subversive notions, preferring its very tame beer-hotdogs-and-baseball version in September. (That’s Labor — excuse me, Labour Day — in Canada also; I mistakenly thought that … Continue reading In The Yard: Our Flowery May Day Demonstration
IN THE YARD There’s a pair of big irises that open late, as the others are fading and drooping. Honeysuckle has just started to appear among the roses. I’m not sure if it’s an invasive variety or not.