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The Protection of Cedars in Everyday Ramblings
I am having a needed quiet day. I took this yesterday. Mrs. Sherlock and I went for an easy 4 mile walk over in another residential neighborhood across the river. Charity and I went over there i...
Special Trees and a Ramble (not a rant) in Everyday Ramblings
Trees come up a lot in conversations with my students. In talking to a couple of them about where they live, they mentioned that there were two magisterial trees on their block. A big “Monkey” t...
Just Give Me One Thing in Everyday Ramblings
The community garden in the morning a few days back. It is peaceful and lovely to apprehend. I repotted the leggy tomato seedlings yesterday and was so sad to see that because of how I watered,...
More Like Cart... Hops in Everyday Ramblings
From our walk on Saturday. Lovely poppies. I went down to my plot this morning to plant the somewhat leggy tomatoes we took down in a couple of pots on Sunday. These were starts my sister picked...
Think Again Sweetheart in Everyday Ramblings
I saw the first roses of the year on Thursday but this perfect one is from yesterday over on the other side of the river. We got in a car and went to the strolling neighborhood we used to go to ...
Verdant for Now in Everyday Ramblings
My favorite color of azalea is becoming more popular. Charity wanted more up in our weekly walk as the gym has been closed for two weeks (enhanced Covid restrictions due to still high case count...
Color and Koi in Everyday Ramblings
White lilac (in the most fragrant of years), this last week. We walked through the local lilac garden on our way home from all that up last week. Even though we are in drought conditions everyth...
Fragility in Everyday Ramblings
One of the trilliums from Sunday. I did all this reading about police accountability and then yesterday we had a Zoom consensus meeting on prepared questions for a position on a ballot measure ...
Adventures in Learn By Doing in Everyday Ramblings
This is a graft of two fruit trees in bloom from a few days back. It mostly drops a kind of crabapple in the early fall. Our ornamental cherries are almost done blooming as they push out beautif...
Moonwort in Everyday Ramblings
I walked by this plant last week, and thought hmm, a nice burst of color. On the way back I took this picture and ran it through iNaturalist. It is Lunaria Annua, also known as “Honesty”, “Silve...
Waving at Mars in Everyday Ramblings
These trees were not in bloom when I left to go to the beach. The slender maples that surround the patio well did not have leaves. I didn’t have an actual carrot coming up in the garden plot. U...
Ah in Everyday Ramblings
From this morning just after sunrise. My inner beach pony is very happy. We are having a warm snap, very unusual in April. Last night Most Honorable and I went for an hour walk on the beach as ...
Once You Know in Everyday Ramblings
Here is the drama shot from the weekend. Walking with the crew we turned onto a street that I had never been on before up on the neighborhood where the 1% live. Well, actually, the just over 1%....
All Manner of Things in Everyday Ramblings
Not all the tulips are open yet out there, but a number are. The daffodils are on the wane. A couple of weeks ago I woke up with a few itchy bump blotch things on my shoulder and the center of ...
Random, Unfair, Crazy Making and Done in Everyday Ramblings
Happy almost Easter. The trees are coming on and the air is chock full of pollen. We have four trees out front blooming these delicate white blossoms and it is almost impossible to take pictures...
A Nail File? Okay. Sure in Everyday Ramblings
I took this Saturday when I was planting the starts. This is the plot next to mine in the community garden looking west. We met the lovely young woman whose plot this is yesterday when I took th...
A Tempest or a Sea Change? in Everyday Ramblings
We are having a stunning clear weekend day in spring. It usually rains through the majority of March and April so there is a festive atmosphere out there. Here are some different daffodils with ...
And the Beet Goes On... in Everyday Ramblings
Remember the big cone from the cedar? The one as big as my hand? A couple of days ago Kes asked me during a Zoom call how it was doing. I went to pick it up off the windowsill…There were seeds e...
Tiny Steps Back Into the World, Tiny in Everyday Ramblings
Watching last season’s Gardeners’ World, I discovered that there are an amazing variety of daffodils. And in between rain squalls it is fun to go out and find different ones. This is peak season...
Would You Like some Daffodils With That Uncertainty? in Everyday Ramblings
Hope you aren’t sick of crocuses yet. :) Especially ones open in the sun. We are having a mini preview of a gorgeous dry spring, but the rains return on Thursday and will hang around for a time....
Ah, A Sunny Day in Everyday Ramblings
This is the female cone of the Deodar (or Western Himalayan Cedar). It can take them 3 years to mature and let go of the tree. In the Fall, the male cones will appear. They look completely diffe...
At the Beginning of the Learning Curve in Everyday Ramblings
These crocuses seeded themselves across the street from my kitchen window. They are so cheerful strewn across a grassy parking meridian. There is a lot of waiting going on around here. If I don...
A Picture of the Plot in Everyday Ramblings
Here is the community garden plot. There were so many oak leaves on top that I didn’t realize they had covered it with burlap. I cleared off a bunch of sticks and small branches that had fallen ...
Transitions in Everyday Ramblings
This is in line with my mood. Still with one foot in winter and restrictions and lockdown and one full of hope for a verdant and sometimes sunny spring. I got my garden plot assignment today. I ...
Settling In in Everyday Ramblings
After the big storm…we walked the long way to the grocery yesterday over the big hill and there were more trees down than I have ever seen before. And there were still patches of old snow. At on...
