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& BELOW Columbus Arts Fest. Along
the riverfront.
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Lilies. Just began to bloom in the back garden.
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Weeds. More from the strip next to the office.
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Weeds. A briefest glimpse of the outside world on
the day of indoor toil. These plants are in the strip of land (once
a railway right-of-way?) next to the office. As I am best at identifying
plants that come with convenient tags, these shall remain anonymous.
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Steam. Rises from a tree trunk after a storm, as
the hot sun beats down. (From the back garden).
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Two
more storms. (Make that three).
A hectic day at work to make up for the missed Monday.
In
the garden: The peonies are almost entirely finished. It seemed a
short run this year, though they were prolific. The strawberries are
continuing, though it doesn't appear as if there will be as many as
last year. The delphiniums are looking very weak.
The
coreopsis just began blooming over the weekend, and the love-in-a-mist
burst into bloom last week and are continuing in strong spirit. The
rose campion is full right now, and the lavender is beginning its
bloom.
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Borage. Many volunteers, only one in bloom so far.
I
saw the young cardinal with its parents this evening, and its flying
had greatly progressed from yesterday. They were up high on the house
next door and flying back and forth to the garage. I was glad to he
it had made it thus far -- I was a little worried on leaving this
morning -- there was a loud ruckus when I went outside to get to the
garage. Many birds were calling out loudly and shrilly, the cardinals
(a male and female), some sparrow, some blackbirds, ... perched in
a circle around the garage roof in the middle of which, just below
the point, crouched a grey and black cat.
They
taunted the cat enough to convince it to back down, and I watched
it bound off into the alley before I took my leave and opened the
garage door and was off.
Amy
to Akron
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More
ring shopping
Back to Polaris
Dinner
under the arbor
A very small bird nearly dropped on us at the table
and then hid behind an empty garden pot. We jumped and picked up Charlie
to keep him from investigating too closely (though the bird was small
enough and apparently quiet enough that it seemed to escape his interest)
and finally moved our chairs back to give it some room.
It
was a young cardinal and both parents were teaching it to fly. The
male would fly past every once in awhile and remained mostly at a
distance, but the female flew up close, chattering and chirping. After
not too long, the little one hopped up on the trunk of the redbud
tree, and then to a tiny branch three or four feet off the ground.
There
it sat for a long time, being fed by the mother cardinal and appearing
to settle in for a rest. We hiked up out chairs and gave the process
quite an audience.
Eventually,
after we had almost given up on any further movement, the little bird
made a short flight to the window sill of the garage next door, where
it perched awkwardly, face up against the glass. Then another short
flight took it up into the branches of an ornamental tree in the next
yard over and we gave up our viewing for the evening.
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The Postman. Amy's favorite.
Franklin
Park Conservatory
We watched as one of the conservators brought new-hatched
butterflies from the lower level into the display room -- she opened
the crate and tossed them out. Two onto me. One just clung to my shirt,
a second walked up my finger and up my hand and didn't appear to be
interested in flying.
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Brilliant blue. Apparently blues on butterflies are
also (as in flowers) hard to capture by camera.
Amy's
hours of cleaning
The refrigerator looks all new.
M,D
& G to Hessel
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Memorial
Day cookout
In Bexley, though we dined inside
Stephanie
& Chris were there also
Amy's
hour of cleaning
The freezer has identifiable foods only, now.
8:30
service
Lord I Want to be a Christian in My Heart
> MAY
04
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