Busy day yesterday
May. 15th, 2022 06:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI wound up doing four hours of volunteer stuff for the 4H/Fairgrounds from 8 to noon. Hadn't planned on it, but I do get to be Lala's Phone A Friend friend for when stuff needs to be done. Oh, well. (We were finishing putting the new boards on the South ring. They'd set all the posts and done a little less than half the boards.)
After that I went home and had an omelet. It is the dawning of the age of asparagus over here, so it was a nice omelet with asparagus. Then I went out to play barberry, during which there were also pictures because of course there were.
I sometimes want to do a chatty little newsletter along the lines of "What is happening in the valley at this time of year?" but I suspect that this would only encourage the dipshit summer people to show up so... not really a result I want. Ideally, they own their stupidly expensive lake houses and show up here about four times a year. That's the ideal case. (When I say stupidly-expensive, I mean quarter-of-a-million for a SECOND HOME sitting on a dinky quarter acre lot at the end of a two mile dirt road in Greater Rednecklandia. No public sewer, a water 'co op', indifferent plowing, etc. Cousin-across-the-lake just sold his house for $265K. He bought it about three years ago for 180K and I thought he overpaid then.)
But in lieu of a chatty little newsletter, here's what's popping in my neck of the woods...
Late in the season Rue Anemone:
Black haw viburnum, a woefully underappreciated shrubbery, in full swing:
Dogwood, fading fast as the leaves come in:
Hawthorn:
Bluets:
Wild geranium
Fringed polygala:
Pink ladyslippers, my second-favorite terrestrial orchid on the property:
And a garter snek:
Also in bloom (not pictured) are the invasives Autumn Olive and Japanese Honeysuckle.
After that I went over and took Birb for a spin with my friend Lala on Peake. She took the picture which is why I have one of me and Birb.
After that I went home and had an omelet. It is the dawning of the age of asparagus over here, so it was a nice omelet with asparagus. Then I went out to play barberry, during which there were also pictures because of course there were.
I sometimes want to do a chatty little newsletter along the lines of "What is happening in the valley at this time of year?" but I suspect that this would only encourage the dipshit summer people to show up so... not really a result I want. Ideally, they own their stupidly expensive lake houses and show up here about four times a year. That's the ideal case. (When I say stupidly-expensive, I mean quarter-of-a-million for a SECOND HOME sitting on a dinky quarter acre lot at the end of a two mile dirt road in Greater Rednecklandia. No public sewer, a water 'co op', indifferent plowing, etc. Cousin-across-the-lake just sold his house for $265K. He bought it about three years ago for 180K and I thought he overpaid then.)
But in lieu of a chatty little newsletter, here's what's popping in my neck of the woods...
Late in the season Rue Anemone:
Black haw viburnum, a woefully underappreciated shrubbery, in full swing:
Dogwood, fading fast as the leaves come in:
Hawthorn:
Bluets:
Wild geranium
Fringed polygala:
Pink ladyslippers, my second-favorite terrestrial orchid on the property:
And a garter snek:
Also in bloom (not pictured) are the invasives Autumn Olive and Japanese Honeysuckle.
After that I went over and took Birb for a spin with my friend Lala on Peake. She took the picture which is why I have one of me and Birb.
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Date: 2022-05-16 09:16 pm (UTC)Glad the kids had fun.