Milkweed Pods
White River
Tag: flora
A Walk in the Country
Interior of silo
Barn door next to silo
Driftwood
Wood anemone
I went to Muncie over the weekend, and went for a walk in the country with my mom and brother. There’s an old grain silo on the property that used to be used for singing and drumming. There is still a circle of chairs and the remains of candles and old light sticks inside, but because the silo is no longer stable, it’s not used anymore.
Sassafras
Grass Seeds
Multiflora and Honeysuckle
Seed Heads
Roots
Gratuitous Ivy
My Flickr pro account expires tonight, and I’m once again waffling back and forth between renewing it and letting it revert to free status. The main problem with doing that is that I have not been uploading photos to my image gallery, so nothing on Flickr is backed up. (Well, the original untouched photos are, but not the post-processed ones.)
So, I thought I’d look around online for a tool to suck all my photos out of Flickr, preferably limited by date to just the span since I got lazy about uploading to my image gallery. And, I found Flickr Downloader. I’m giving it a test drive right now, but it seems to be working fine.
If all goes well, I’ll (finally!) update the image gallery, maybe even this weekend.
The other fun thing I came across is TuneFind.com. It isn’t always updated right away, but if you’re looking for the name of a song you heard on a TV show, it’s worth checking out (and checking back a few days after the show first airs). I’ve complained to a couple of networks for not providing song credits at the ends of the show, or at least on the shows’ websites. It seems to me that not making that information readily available to viewers isn’t very helpful to the artists, who surely would like the use of their music to generate some revenue.
Gratuitous image
That ivy is seriously tenacious. The grounds crew dug tore it off the walls and dug up the roots, but it’s still growing like crazy. I’m going to have a fun time pulling it out of the garden, but if I don’t, it will take over quickly.
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Sedum
I was telling my mom this morning that I probably wouldn’t see any green in my garden for awhile, because it faces north and is really shady. I spoke too soon! The sedum is up, as are some of the irises. The coral bells don’t look like they ever fully died off, so they should be fine this year, too.
I think these are resurrection lilies, but I’m not sure. I would help if I’d make a garden plan, so I knew what was where.
Sunday
Today was a lazy day for Miss Brown.
Not so much for me. I baked another apple pie, then decided to try a veggie shepherd’s pie (baked in a cast iron skillet!). The apple pie was even better than the first one I made, but I forgot to add potatoes to the shepherd’s pie, so it was not as tasty as it could have been. It as probably healthier potato-free, but the yum factor wasn’t as good as it could have been. (How the hell did I forget potatoes?!)
All that baking heated up the kitchen. At one point, it was 75F inside, so I opened the windows, which of course meant that it immediately started storming. Harriet slept through it. She is completely useless for moral support during storms. Luckily it didn’t last long.
Harriet is sleeping on her new super soft leopard print fakety-fake fur blanket. It was on clearance at Target for $6, so I couldn’t resist. It’s very warm, because it’s lined with fleece, and it’s big enough for both Harriet and I to sit under while watching TV.
Grapevine
red paper boat 