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This afternoon's light provided more than enough excuse for a walk around.

Woodward Park

This ginkgo is just starting to turn. 

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lower field

Q: when is a treeline not just a treeline?

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another afternoon walk back to the lower field was just in time to find this natural sundial, its gnomon's shadow neatly aligned onto petal.

what time was it?  time to point and click, that's what time it was.

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there's a tumbling profusion of these yellow blooms along the NE edge of the lower field.

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a bit of rain, always welcome.  a drop in ambient temperature, even more so.

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the Circle

Naked Lady lilies.  with a common name like that there's bound to be no end of misunderstandings cropping up.  there was even a verse dropped from the song "Take Me ( Read more... )

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in the afternoon's highly diffuse light these early stage blooms of Queen Anne's Lace looked for all the world like tiny little bird nests.

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come this Saturday there will be a blue moon, the second full Moon in a calendar month (those who have this year's calendar might have noticed that the full moon glyph on that date isn't black like all the others.  it's blue ( Read more... )

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having house guests two weekends in a row has been a treat.  last weekend earthyshadow came up from GA and this weekend The Professor was here from FL after a conference.

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