We joke, sometimes, about cats lying on their backs “with all the pointy bits [pointing] up. These cacti hardly have any section that is not being pointy in multiple directions!
And for good measure, here’s a spikey thing by Chihully:
Posts Tagged ‘green’
Spikey bits
Posted in Art and Craft, Nature, scenery, tactless observations, tagged cacti, Denver Botanic Gardens, Gardening, green, hot glass, red, white, yellow on 19 July, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Spring Things
Posted in birds, Elsinore, Gardening, insects, scenery, Uncategorized, tagged bees, change, green, spring, Xylocopus on 23 March, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Spring Singer alerted me to the emergence of this year’s first crop of jousting carpenter bees [Xylocopus] in regional gardens. This afternoon they are bumbling in and around the magnolia blossoms and riding the willow catkins, which bow under their weight in the March breezes.
At least, around here, at the moment, those are ‘breezes’. I understand Colorado got a blizzard, and sections of the Northeast got a recent blast of snow.
Big bees, little bees; it’s been a good day for watching wildlife in the warming weather. A wood thrush poked around in the leaf litter by the back fence. White throated sparrows haven’t disappeared yet, and the downy woodpeckers are tap tap tapping to see what might be waking up under loose bark. Cardinals, blue jays, song sparrows…. Squirrels, rabbits, and oh, I hope that was something other than a rat — aren’t those supposed to be nocturnal? Couldn’t it be a stoat, or something more pleasant, with a brown agouti coat and bright black eyes?
We’ll see.
Experiment #4
Posted in Art and Craft, composite, My brain, Nature, scenery, tagged blue, change, chaos, green, Kate Bush, trees on 15 December, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Points if you know the song lyrics, of course. This picture is unrelated, in the sense that I knew I wanted to post the image before the title for the post made an awkward shift from a single word to something with more [literal] resonance..
It’s not entirely looking a lot like Solstice…
Posted in autumn, Food, Gardening, insects, scenery, tactless observations, tagged asters, bees, chaos, Gardening, green, orange, sunset, winter on 5 December, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Seriously. People grumble about weather in the 40s and this is happening down the block:
I should be grateful at least evening looks about right:
There were bees out today. I’m happy for them being able to get a last snack or two, but really. BEES?
Fine. Click through to some hysterical Torch Songs in which the word ‘Me’ has been replaced by “Bees”.
Special Guest….Mantis?
Posted in Gardening, insects, into the woods, Nature, tagged fern, fiddlehead, fuzzy, green, hand model, insects, mantis, miniature drama, spring on 12 May, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Perhaps Outstanding can help us with the ID — during that ridiculously balmy New England weekend we just had, I spotted this little drama happening on an unfurling fiddlehead:
Bonus: Somethings there are that do not love walls:
Tying up the year…
Posted in Backstory, composite, tactless observations, tagged antique crochet hooks, Charitable contributions, earwurm, End of year, Enough already, Gimbels, gold, green, Let it Go, Nemo Corsets, red, tatting, wrap-ups on 31 December, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I was hesitating over that title, because maybe the end of 2014 is more about setting things free…but then decided that the idea of “Let it Go” had been a trifle overused in the last few months, and who needs that earwurm again? [Confession: I like the song, but overplay and over-commodification make it grating.]
Here: look at more tatting, instead!
No, I haven’t a clue what to do with them. I am tat-less in addition to tactless, apparently. But let me get back on-task now… In the last hours I have of this year, there are a few things that Must Be Done, in no particular order:
- Charitable contributions:
- Doctors without Borders, Heifer, alma mater, local arts, clothing donations, etc.
- Bills
- End of year report to employer
- Buy milk
- Work on music
- Clear my desk
- Closet-culling
- Acknowledge past traditions I do not practice for the tying up of other things….
More accurate representation: Moss und Frost
Posted in Elsinore, Gardening, Nature, tagged frost, fuzzy, green, ice crystals, little creatures of the forest, moss, white on 18 November, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Sturdy little things. Keep them hydrated and they will outlast us…
Sage advice
Posted in Gardening, My brain, tagged bad puns, bluestone perennials, caradonna, gardening advice, green, magenta, purple, sage, salvia on 15 July, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Trim these back as the last flowers are fading — you get colorful trimmings and a chance that the plants will bloom again in the fall.
First, there is a mountain
Posted in My brain, tactless observations, tagged gold, green, iris, not quite divine, purple, shimmer, stained glass, Tiffany stained glass, watercolor on 3 February, 2013| 3 Comments »
Then there is no mountain, then there is…
I can’t remember the song title, or the singer, but the usage should make more sense tomorrow…
Moss and snow
Posted in Backstory, Gardening, tactless observations, tagged ajuga, crystal, dress-up, fuzzy, green, ice, moss, seasons, snow, unseasonable, white on 31 January, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The moss has been flourishing all winter. This snow was really more like a brief bit of playing dress-up with a season that wasn’t supposed to be around.
It was gone by the afternoon, and warm enough for me to start pruning shrubs and noticing all the mantis egg cases that had been stowed in the Nine-bark bush. Ah well. Maybe we’ll get more before the winter is completely gone….
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