my Monday, 31 July 2023
On one of my first Wordless Wednesday posts I added a caption, and a friend quipped, "That's not wordless." Since then, I have not added captions to my Wednesday photographs. Sometimes, though, I have a photograph that I want to comment on. Sometimes, I have a photo that I don't think is particularly noteworthy---I just …
six on Saturday, 29 July 2023
I know that it is just as hot or hotter in other areas of the country and around the world as it is in Alabama. But successive days with the heat index, sometimes even the air temperature, hitting 100 degrees Fahrenheit is just plan oppressive. It certainly limits one's time in the garden. One of …
Landscape and the Landscape Gardens
On a recent trip to the UK and a walking-hiking get away weekend in the Peak District, more specifically the Derbyshire Dales, I experienced an unexpected "lab" exercise in natural landscape and landscape gardens. I say unexpected, but certainly not unappreciated or unwanted. Since my retirement from teaching medieval literature, I've turned my research energies …
Wordless Wednesday (Evening), 5 July 2023
Wordless Wednesday, 27 June 2023
six on Saturday, 24 June 2023
A few photos and an update for this week. It has been a week---in fact two weeks---of storms interspersed with hot, humid, sunny periods. The combination of rain and sun has set the stage for some good flowering. A few of the most striking appear below. 1. The gerbera daisy in the featured image is …
Wordless Wednesday, 21 June 2023
six on Saturday, 10 June 2023
1. One of the brightest plants blooming in the garden right now is the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia). This plant, or its ancestors, traveled according to family legend to Baltimore from Texas when my father was in mobilization training there during WWII. I don't know how true that story is, but I do know that …
After Eden 