Didn’t Wena call them bluets? We’ll have blankets of these soon, mostly in shady places on the lawn, but this is the first patch so far. Sometimes in the past I’ve been moved to mow around them. These are under the swing, where there’s not much grass left to mow anyway. Who knows what their real name is?
Month: March 2012
Eastern Redbud
Beyond the forsythia, in the woods, see a patch or two of purple?
There’s redbud in bloom throughout the woods near us now, and along many roadsides. It’s a favorite sign of spring, but it doesn’t last long, and I’ve been finding it camera-shy.
Wikipedia reference: Cercis canadensis
Magnolias finished
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.
Camellias in bloom
Saturday afternoon, in the triangle garden.
Wikipedia Reference: Camellia
Magnolias in bloom
Above, 6:30pm Wednesday 14 March 2012. Below a shot in the dark from tree number one, about 6am Saturday 17 March, then again below, tree one about 9am. (About 5:30am, I’d been awakened by an owl of the variety “ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, UH-OOOOOH”, and subsequently dragged out of bed by young dog Cadbury.)
Wikipedia References: Magnolia, Magnolia Soulangeana
Super Tuesday
Worked 4:30am to 8:30pm here at Hartwood Presbyterian Church, Super Tuesday, the Republican presidential primary election on March 6, 2012. Left to right, Judy Miller, Bob Jankovits, myself, Judy Feather, and Lois Steiner. Served 276 of our precinct’s 4000 registered voters, of whom 120 voted for Ron Paul and 146 for Mitt Romney. (Our 10 absentee ballots were counted separately by the Registrar.)