The 4th floor women’s restroom in the west tower is sporting trash bags over two of its sinks. They’ve been there awhile, judging by the layer of dust on top.
I think I may need to take a little tour of the women’s restrooms in the building tomorrow, to see if there are any more black trash bags being employed in a similarly unorthodox manner.
It finally bloomed!
A coworker brought me a variegated hosta this morning. Hopefully it will be happy where I planted it. I placed it where it’ll get morning sun, which they’re supposed to like.
Coral Bells
Columbine (Rose Barlow)
Because she’s so freaking cute, and because she’s actually sitting still, for once.
The cat pictures were all taken with a wide-open Lensbaby 2.0 (the aperture disc was completely removed).
Henry’s being her usual silly self, rolling around in the crow’s nest. She was getting ready to grab the camera with her front paws, but I got the photo and got out of the way before she could follow through.
Maple Seed, Mirrored
Not a great photo, but I like the faint suggestion of a figure in the background.
Lots of bird activity (and chipmunks and bunnies, too), which means that Polly is sitting in the crow’s nest, watching all the to-ing and fro-ing.
Cherub
Fieldstone Grave Marker
These were taken a couple of weeks ago, at Splinter Ridge Cemetery. It was only the second time I’ve seen fieldstone markers, and the first time I’ve seen one inscribed, albeit not fully. It looks like whoever carved the inscription gave up after starting the second line. So far, all of the fieldstone markers I’ve seen have been unshaped, raw pieces of stone.
Mary Wife of Isaac Conyers Died Oct. 24, 1857
I always hate seeing women’s headstones that just list her as the wife of some dude. I searched Ancestry.com for to see if I could figure out her maiden name, but all I turned up were unsourced public trees, some of which have impossible information. As in, several people have attached my Findagrave record to their trees for a Mary M. Tharp. There was a Mary M. Tharp who married an Isaac Conyers in Indiana, but that marriage occurred after this Mary died.
And then someone requested that I update the Findagrave record with information that I thought was suspect. I declined. So I guess they complained and had the information added by someone at Findagrave. I have no reason to believe her maiden name was Burton, or that these linked folks are her family. As far as I can tell, the Mary Burton who married Isaac Conyers lived and died in Bath County, Kentucky in 1868.
red paper boat 