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If you look carefully here, you can see oranges on the tree in the middle. I bet that tree smells divine in the spring. It is unusual but not completely unheard of to see citrus growing here. ...

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Not sure what the story is with this wildlife garden. It is a hillside, scrub woods, owned I think by the gas company. There is a small substation thing in one corner. At the top is a popular ...

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I wished I had managed a shot of this romantic late blooming crepe myrtle a few hours early when the unexpected light was breaking through the overcast behind me from the west. But I was on un...

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Last Sunday we went to see “our” troll. There are six of them now here the Pacific Northwest. There is one too on Bainbridge Island, where my niece lives. There is one on Vashon Island and the...

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This looks like a full-on meadow, but it is a front border on the public facing side of an expensive home up in the West Hills where Mrs. Sherlock and I walked last Sunday. It is clear either ...

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This is the view from the bus stop I wait at on my way home from grocery shopping. I have the same shot from last week in the pouring rain, and the week before that I did not take a shot of th...

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Happy spring to you in the southern hemisphere. With a full day of rain under our belts this week, yet the crackle of dry leaves underfoot we are experiencing fall unfold day by day. It has be...

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From a walk on Saturday with Mrs. Sherlock. I didn’t plant any zinnias this year and the Helenium’s never came up. I talked her into a modest walk as even though she is testing negative she is...

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The light in this photo I took in the garden a few days ago seems right to me. It has an underwater quality and I love the balance between the colors, imperfect as the dahlias are. A few week...

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It is getting late on the flower clock. Our Crepe Myrtles are starting to bloom. Later than where Kes and Most Honorable live. They buried Diego under theirs and as his favorite color was red ...

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A lowly local thistle. Love the wonderful textures here. We have been lucky with the weather so far, no rain of course, which is a bit worrisome, but also not too hot. We’ll get there though ...

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Love the color and the low light here from this morning. We even had enough rain to wet the ground a bit (after I took this shot) for the first time since June. Thursday afternoon I got the em...

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Here is my sweet purple basil being engulfed by a healthy interloper plant. I have no idea what the green plant is, but it is thriving. I tried cutting it back, but it is surrounding the basil...

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One of the reasons I like to take and share pictures of living plants is that they are imperfect. Sort of like me and my life. I took this earlier today on a tentative jaunt around the neighbo...

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On the way back from the garden. Today is the day. We got most of the powdery gray dust off the floors with damp miracle cloths yesterday and started moving the furniture back in to my apartme...

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This was Friday evening. The floors are done. They caulked the baseboards yesterday and tomorrow they paint them. I finally got to see what it all will look like. There is the minor detail of...

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No, not me, thank goodness. The young floor installer. They were supposed to be done yesterday but when I went over in the early evening nothing had been done. Just a sliver of the living area...

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Here is my happy place soon after sunrise yesterday morning. I had already cut some sweet pea flowers to bring home from the community garden plot before I took this shot. It went on to be the...

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Here we are up in the Northern Hemisphere in the dog days of summer. My sweet peas are still flowering but a lot of other stuff is done. We have high fire danger because of super low humidity...

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Here’s my meadow from yesterday. It is so cheerful. For my own mental health, it helps me to say that none of the repairs that were done on Fred, my apartment, were due to anything I initiate...

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The gladiolas aren’t quite out yet, but this is a picture from a previous 4th of July. I am kind of over hydrangeas and lilies and in the mood for something singular. I finally have dates. The...

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The clematis are thriving like the wild sweet peas this year. I was thrilled to see the deep red purple sweet pea flowers unfurling this morning at the garden. My “meadow” is just beginning to...

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Not that much going on. It has been hot but not too hot, and dry. At Fred, my home apartment the kitchen cabinets are in and the framing for the counters is on. The place is even more of a me...

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I didn’t hear from the property manager for a week and then Friday afternoon I get an email saying that if I want to go ahead with replacing the flooring they need to get a quote and then have...

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The cat man himself looming over me this morning. I actually used my birthday 20 lb. weight yesterday doing rows for the Push-Up Club express class. My birthday was nice, very low key and I ...

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