Today I went and took pictures of stuff growing along the road. The sumac’s starting to turn and look mighty pretty. Here are some of those pictures:
Monthly Archives: August 2012
August 28th
The last few days have been brassica-centric (Brassicaceae being the family of that most redolent group of vegetables, cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and many others). I’ve been admiring the kale and the purple cabbage out in the field in particular — the kale because the plants, having been periodically harvested, now look like funny little crinkly palm trees, and the cabbage because look at it, it’s pretty.
August 26th: The Great Minnesota Get-Together
Some pictures from the all-too-brief hours I spent at the State Fair this morning. More when I return there next weekend. It will be pretty gratuitous. I’m excited.
Looking up inside of a veritable tented dreamscape at the Milk Run
August 24th
Time for a wandering about the garden as fall advances. Many things are winding down, but not everything.
Here’s the backyard garden and multitude of leaves that have already fallen.
August 21st – 23rd
It’s been phone pictures only the last three days. On one of them, we were treated to about ten minutes’ worth of rain. It looked a little more promising than that as I went to pick tomatoes, though.
August 20th
This Saturday, I went to the local farmers market and, inspired by the flower-growing vendors, had a sudden insatiable urge to arrange some flowers. I’m definitely a flower person. Not so much a flower arranging person. So I just threw some things together and somewhere, florists wept. I particularly liked my goldenrod/Chinese lantern bouquet.
But wait. What is that young upstart bouquet in the background?
CRICKET
A tale of two frogs
August 18th: Flower Arranging with Sarah
Here is a post featuring gomphrenas, which I am going to go ahead and deem my favorite flower in the world at this moment.
August 17th: A few views of sunset
A little glass bottle in my window.
Sunset through the screen.
A jet flew by a few minutes before I took this picture, leaving behind the black streak in the picture. I thought it looked neat, like a pencil streak or something.
sarah takes pictures 