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This is a planter made from a hollowed-out birch knot in the woodpile. Rather than burning it, I cleaned the hole and turned it into a planter. The plants are a sundew (drosera oblongata), a small bit of partridge berry vine, sphagnum moss, and a flowering weed I let grow. Hey, any flower is welcome in February, even if it is a weed! It’s an appropriate last photo for a changeable February with cold and warmth interspersed.
On the morning of the thirty-first, I was about to shave when Marcus, my shoulder-jumping male kitten, decided to join me. Deciding it might make an interesting shot, I grabbed the phone and took this pose. Marcus cooperated and looked quite pleased with himself.
I assume that he thinks this is his best side for photography. Marcus stayed perched on the shoulder throughout the shave and only jumped off when I started putting on the aftershave.
I guess he doesn’t appreciate good Dominican Bay Rhum yet.
Over the years, I’ve discovered that carnivorous plants can surprise you with lovely flowers. I’ve had this butterwort for about a year. And never thought about its flower. It sat on a lower shelf near the kitchen sink under grow lights, and was happy enough to send up this lovely little flower. It is the last on the card for November.
In my area, the small-town governments are constantly generating a flurry of articles in favor of or opposing development, schools, or issues that have people up in arms. It can make driving down the local roads enjoyable, seeing what political action signs are posted on the banks of the roadside.
This sign and the one in the back of it appeared last week. I usually pay only passing attention to the signs; they come and go, but these caused me to slow down and eventually pull up for a photo. The “I support the most recent thing” sign appeared to be a sarcastic commentary. But in combination with the sign behind it, I realized the comment was reactionary against masking, immunizations, LGBTQ, and Black Lives Matter. I thought I wouldn’t want to knock on their door looking for directions.
As I drove along, I began to take severe umbrage toward the sign and the thought behind it due to an immediate and personal event. Last week I was bitten by someone’s cat in my backyard. After I had shooed my dog, Max, away, the bastard jumped at me and bit me hard. It had tags on so it was someone’s pet, but who’s? No one acknowledged owning it.
My healthcare provider decided that I needed to be seen in the Emergency Room, and the ER provider agreed that I needed a tetanus booster, immune globulin, and a rabies vaccine series. The reason? Many people have become “vaccine adverse.” They have shared this feeling to include being adverse to having pets immunized. Instead of just running away, the cat had attacked, which was atypical. So, without being able to confirm that the cat had been vaccinated, I was committed to a string of ER visits to get shots. Sweet.
Without the series of shots, I might just have filed this photo in among my collection of odd pictures that I had found interesting. But because of the shots, this shot of the signs boils my blood. I think of the people committed to this course of action, not as political protestors or being foolish. I see them as dangerous scoundrels because they and others like them have put my life in danger.
I don’t think that people like this can be reasoned with, and I’m reminded of the quote, “We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged” (Heinrich Hein)
Let’s just call this one snap peas in a downpour.
I’m out most mornings checking the garden and the woodland garden in the rear near the sanctuary. It’s been so wet this year that it’s been a big year for fungi. This little mushroom was the last photo taken in July.
The last Photo on the card – for May is a gall on a witch hazel leaf on the edge of the woodland garden. I was giving H.I.M. Xenia her morning stroll around the garden when I spotted it. Gslls have always interested me, and I’ll watch this one as it develops.
It’s not open yet, and I have no idea what it will look like when it does open. But this Venus Flytrap is apparently very happy sharing the kitchen window with the orchids. I’ve had other carnivorous plants flower before, but not the flytrap.
This was an interesting last on the card for March.
One of the orchids flowered this last month and produced this new plant. It was the last on the card for the month.
Hmmmmm, probably some psychedelic goody or poisonous fungi. But who can tell? It wound up getting snapped as I began clearing leaves in the back of our lot. It was the last on the card for October.
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