Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Helsinki, Finland.
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Not chaste any more…
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Sunflower fell over so I staked it. It’s happy now. Also a rose in the rain. ETA the sunflower is 11 inches across
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Rain, rain come back and play, send this infernal heat away.
I can see rainclouds in all four directions, and rain to the east, south and west, but over Tucson the perpetual burning blue disc.
Every year since we’ve moved here the Monsoon, so critical to the Sonora desert, and to making the summers here beautiful instead of unbearable, has gotten weaker and weaker.
It should be in the mid-90s with rain every other day. Instead…
It’s hard to listen to the scientists being oh so careful and conservative and certain talking about how global warming might just do this, in 2050, or by the end of the century, while I’m watching it destroy this land right in front of me.
Update: blech
Researchers at San Francisco State University conducted a study in 2003 that showed that the temperature inside a vehicle can rise to 114 degrees on a 95 degree day, and will rapidly rise to 140 in under an hour even with the windows open.
Heh, a temperature which, given where SF State is, they probably had to simulate in a lab.
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This bee is busy packing her pollen pantaloons! The sunflower is very popular. I think she’s a leafcutter. The front flower bed is a one-stop-shop for the leafcutters. Rose leaves for nests. Roses, plumbago, cone flowers, and lantana for nectar. I would have echniacia too if the bunnies would stop eating it. The big bumblebee flew away. The leafcutter bees don’t seem to care how close I get.
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Were you on your way to Phoenix?
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Vegetation says “No.”
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Could have been the first few miles of a thousand mile journey, you never know!
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(I’ve not given that a spin in a while)
This was heading toward Nashville (and ultimately, home in MD). This is the section of I-40 east of Memphis. Drove down to TX and back, but didn’t have the camera ready on the way down.
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I was walking home yssterday evening and timed it just right with a downpour. I don’t know what this is I’m the street – it looked like someone had spilled detergent, but it was on both sides of the road, for several hundred feet. I noticed a lot of felled pine needles and wondered if they had something to do with it.
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Any chance the road was recently repaved? It may be the excess reflector beads that get scattered on the stripes, and they tend to wash off.
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wildlife report:
cormorant drying out on a paddleboat atoll
a red-eared slider who’s had enough of this duckweed bullshit
and up at the property, a brown toad sits on my machete, just to show me he doesn’t give a fuck I assume.
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