Going Home

This blog serves little purpose. In the beginning it was a lot of fun. I dumped all sorts of random stuff here and my life is better for it. I might be all dumped out. Time to go home.

Summer Planting

Dianthus in pots. One ended up in a bed
along the side of the house.

Officially, it is spring. At least in the calendars widely published. In nature it is the cusp of summer—a fulcrum of transition. I planted a few petunias and dianthus.

Officially, I've given up on the seed thing because I can't make it work anymore. I think of my grandmother standing in my teen room, indicating a pot of hard soil, and saying, "What's that growing in cement." I had no clue on how to grow plants. I am mildly improved after 45 years of trying.

I reached my apex a few years ago when half of the impatiens seeds I planted grew into viable flowering plants. That was when I realized I took no joy in the labor any more. And my policy is to avoid (as much as possible) activities that do not bring joy.

I'm not experienced in growing in this kind of climate, a sort of half-desert. It can be 80 one day and then drop to 39 by morning. This is spring. I'm told in the summer it's unrelenting heat punctuated by tornadoes.

Looking forward to it.

Petunias and a survivor of my seed experiment.

Sky 341 - back yard

Everyone likes it. Sort of like the back of my head. Everyone likes that, too.

This is a more tangential sky - sky by inference. Still mourning the loss of my camera. My poor iPhone is making the best of things. 

Sky 337 - summer

Up to 80 degrees today. Hoping for spring weather soon without a winter flash back. Spare the plants!

Not my hood. I only visit occasionally.

Sky 319 - bright blue

365: Sky 56 - Forest Hill Park

Sudden urge to know more about taking good sky pictures took me to the bookstore to look at photography books. This is a typical good sky with overexposed surroundings. The sky is the main part of the photo, of course, but would like to get the green also. 

Took other photos that have a blown-out sky. Need to read the fabulous camera manual and discover what is in there to help avoid white sky. I could not fix it in Photoshop. There wasn't enough information to build/edit from. 

Also, a little scary to become the person who carries around a camera. I feel obnoxious and elitist. But it's just a camera. Not too terribly fancy. And I'm fairly discreet or at least nonchalant. 

About two hours after this was taken there was a rain storm.

365: Sky 2 - Equinox plus two

Sky 2 - halfway into the light half of the year

I love you! You're wonderful!

Thanks for hanging in here and waiting for me to return to blogging. I don't know what it is, but nothing is inspiring me to write. Sure sign of an amateur or I might just be lazy or it might be spring and I'm having too much fun or ... Whatever. Pick a lovely reason and hug it close to your heart.

I'll be back.

Current Fads
Listening. Time Waits for Everyone, Viggo Mortensen; Love and Other Obsessions, Spyro Gyra; Deep Sleep Every Night, Glenn Harrold
Watching. L.A. Story (early nineties)
Activity. making others happy
Gadget. iPod Shuffle
News Source. none
Reading. The Terra-Cotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri; not reading a lot right now even though I am a reading addict. SL is sort of getting that time. I'm building a grove. It's totally cool and I have this pet fish named "Fin" that swims around my avatar's head and blows bubbles. And my avatar has lovely ragged fairy wings and she's blue.