As I was walking around the older part of the cemetery, I kept getting whiffs of something sweet-smelling. I couldn’t figure out what it was, because none of the flowers growing there were strongly scented. I finally figured out the smell was coming from a flowering locust tree behind the church.
I posted another photo of her, taken from below, but it didn’t show the spider webs covering her head. There were lots of spiders and flies and tiger beetles at this cemetery.
Another shot from last week’s trip to Liberty Methodist Protestant Cemetery. I don’t understand the concept of decorating graves for Christmas, but leaving the decorations up until the tree is dead makes even even less sense.
More buds are open, and the oldest bud has started to turn up, so you can see inside. The flowers are also much pinker today. I counted, and there are about 25 flowers and buds on just this one plant. It’s absolutely gorgeous!
The iris buds still haven’t opened, but they’re darker blue today. It won’t be long.
Potatoes in any form are the ultimate comfort food.
The sad, dead moth is still sitting on the window sill outside the staff lounge.
I’ve never really used Picnik PicMonkey (an on-line photo editing utility), but a couple of the effects are kind of fun, so I’ve been playing around with it. This is yesterday’s rainbow, the Very Long Barn, and Beck Chapel & Dunn Cemetery, all edited in PicMonkey with the Orton-izer. I’ve tried an Orton action for Photoshop and wasn’t too impressed with the results. PicMonkey seems to do a better job of it.
The columbine mystery has been solved. It finally bloomed, and the variety is Rose Barlow.
Pretty, isn’t it? It’s not the usual columbine shape, but that’s fine with me. I have a bunch of “normal” columbine seeds to plant, so it’ll be good to have something a little different.
And now for a weed.
This fleabane plant keeps coming back in the same spot. I need to pull it (again), but before doing so, I thought I’d better take some photos of it. I’ve always liked its little daisy-like flowers.
I thought it was fading, but the next time I looked out the window, it had brightened.
It started thundering and raining a little bit ago. I looked out the patio window, because the light had gotten a little funny looking, and saw a rainbow. I didn’t notice until I had downloaded the photo to my computer that it was a double bow. If you look closely, you can see a faint bow outside of the primary bow.
red paper boat 