Harriet doesn’t usually like to lie on hard surfaces (she is a delicate flower!), but she makes an exception during warm, sunny days. I imagine the warmth from the concrete feels good, as well as the sun shining on her.
Category: Photography
Instant Review: EMG
I unrecommend this product and/or service! Unless, of course, you enjoy being shocked and poked with pins.
Alsotoo, the doctor laughed at me for writing on my left hand, and then he turned around and marked up my right arm. WTF?
Alsoplustoo, the nerves in my right arm are Just Fine. So, again, I wasted time and money finding out what the hell is not wrong with me. I’m starting to think I may be losing what’s left of my mind, or at the very least, that I would have been better off not bothering to go to the doctor in the first place.
Skin and Light
Onion Skin
Party Lantern
These are both inverted lens macro shots. You just take the lens off your camera, turn it around, et voila, instant macro! It’s fiddly and unforgiving of even tiny movements, but it’s fun to play with.
The top one is much crisper than the bottom one, but I like both of them.
Brown Sugar and Farina
Brown Sugar
I hate having rolled up, partially used bags of food in the cupboard, so I store things like brown sugar and hot cereal in canning jars. It’s much tidier, and you can easily see what you have and how much is left.
Farina
I write directly on the glass with a Sharpie, including any cooking directions or proportions.
Rain on the Garden
It’s been storming on and off all day, with waves of heavy rain that’s beating down the plants. The poor wild geranium is sprawling all over the patio.
More Seedlings
The larger ones are starting to get their second sets of leaves. Exciting!
Iris
This time of year, you can almost literally watch things grow. These buds weren’t visible yesterday. I won’t know what kind of irises they are, or even the color, until the buds open.
Blooming
Wild Geranium
Coral Bells
I bet y’all are sick of garden photos, but there’s not much else going on here. Besides, this time of year, garden photos are about all I want to look at, and it’s all about mememememe, right?
Seedlings
My little veggie garden is sprouting! The pepper is a little bigger, because it was a seedling I got from a coworker. I’ve also got a large container of peppers I’ve sprouted from seed, but they’re only now starting to peek out of the dirt.
Pepper
Tomato
And, because I just can’t get enough of it, another gratuitous Wild Columbine shot.
I also got canna bulbs and some more primrose plants from another coworker. I put them the ground when I got home from work. I’m not holding my breath for the primroses, because they were awfully sad looking. The cannas were starting to grow shoots, though, so I think they’ll be in good shape. Assuming the grounds crew don’t mow them down again this year, that is. And if the primroses don’t make it, I’ve got some in another bed from last year, and they’re thriving. I can just move some of them around, if I ever get anything remotely like a garden plan.
Speaking of plans, with the help of some imaginary friends in the Kibology group, I think I know what I’m going to do with Pandora’s grave. Someone suggested putting a box on top of it, as a marker, which I thought was both funny and appropriate. And then someone else suggested planting catnip on her grave. I don’t want to do that, because catnip can be invasive. But! Some catnip planted in a box would be Perfection. Now, all I have to do is find an appropriate, and appropriately sized, box-like planter.
More Gardening
I always feel like I should put “gardening” in scare quotes, because what I do is not real gardening. I haven’t even bothered to pull out all the dead leaves from last fall. I gave up about half-way through. I did weed, though, and I’ve finally planted the rest of the columbine (three kinds) and echinacea seeds. Aside from those, there are wild columbine, wild geranium, and about eleventy different kinds of lilies and irises.
On the other side of the patio, I made a couple of new beds, one for heuchera and another for a combination of zinnias and four o’clocks. (The heuchera came from a coworker, who insisted it is not the same thing as coral bells. I didn’t argue with her, but it sure looks like coral bells to me. That’s okay, because it seems to be a different variety, and coral bells do really well in my shady garden.)
Also on that side are primroses, which are getting large. There should buds on them soon. The sedum is getting big, and the stupid basil plant that volunteered last year seems to be back. There is something growing where the liatris was. Don’t know if that’s what it is, or if the liatris died and some interesting looking weed decided to grow in its place. The one thing I haven’t seen is the asters, but I’m pretty sure that the grounds crew killed them last year, so I’m not surprised.
Pictures of that side shall be forthcoming, as soon as it starts to look like something.
red paper boat 