Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Frost on the pumpkin

 

The gorgeous Red Oak Heritage Tree in Hiawatha Park is changing colors again. Wait. Didn't I just walk by this the other day? No, that was last October. 

"It doesn't matter when or how pandemics dwindle, they change people’s sense of time." From an article in the New York Times today, about how Covid will be an era, not a crisis that fades away.  We'll be dealing with many of the ramifications for decades-- health, social, economic.

On that happy note, on to safer subjects like the weather. This is the coldest start to October since 1981.  

 

My neglected potted yucca by the garage decided to bloom for the first time. Neglect is a good thing apparently, because they only bloom when they're happy.  And unlike the Century Plant, they don't give up the ghost afterwards. It would probably appreciate a bigger pot, but you would need a full suit of armor to wrestle it out of there. 

Mr. Nguyen is coming tomorrow to give me an estimate for compost and fall pruning. The heck with it, I think we'll grow a couple more feet on the Leyland Cypress to block the view of these windows.


  

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