Flowers

Hurricane Sandy

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Sandy and I survived Sandy. Lost power from about 9pm to 6am, slept in the basement for fear of the house being blown away (or bashed by the nearest oak tree). Outside things are quite wet and a little battered . . .

. . . but doggone, I need to get out with the chain saw to fix the back fence before the next time the dogs need to go out.

Hurricane Sandy weather statistics from near Heflin Road, a couple of miles from our house:

Summertime

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On July 6th, Tim introduced Owen to the craft brewing industry:

The bridge from Bethany Beach to Rehoboth, Delaware:

One of the last of this year’s the stargazer lilies, last weekend at home:

Rose of Sharon this morning:

Old railroad station at The Plains, Virginia, July 14th:

Connellsville B&O Station June 22nd:

Clematis, by the front door

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Note of May 4th: I took several shots of the clematis over several days, using the trial-and-error method of learning how to use my digital SLR camera. In the picture below, I manipulated some raw file settings in a photo editing program called Darktable, trying to improve one of those pictures.

Another shot taken about the same time (added 6/19/2012):

Magnolias finished

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We still have one or two left . . .
 

 
. . . but after their glorious peak, it’s only a few days until most of the petals look like this:
 

 
Still, we shouldn’t shed a tear. With a little luck, there’ll be even more next year.