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Be it ever so humble…”my” plot. The bugs are crazy around the leggy nasturtiums, the beets and regular chard. I was able to harvest a few unaffected leaves to eat yesterday. I grew the carrots, ...

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Late lilac garden with interesting sky. The city has issued a proclamation about how we are a city of gardens and apparently next year this time there is going to be a conference of horticulturi...

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Well then, it is clearly roses on the flower clock. There is a cottage front yard chock full of roses and weeds and a stray iris or two down one of the main drags in what used to be our neighbor...

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Another shot of our walk last weekend with open peonies. Yesterday I walked with Charity. She has this idiosyncrasy that she doesn’t like to carry anything when she walks. She used to carry a sm...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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%....

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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