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Not quite finished with yesterday, here's one that I didn't mean to leave behind.

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[OT from cottage renovations]

November in the Grove is our time for the annual leaf crop harvest, or it would be if it had any market value ( Read more... )

[OT from cottage renovations]

it's taken a rainy day off to get around to putting up these images, which means that by now they have shifted from current events into the historical record.

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Woodward Park -> Oak Street -> Grove Avenue

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more signs of spring, they're busting out all over.

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Grove Avenue

three stages of a Magnolia coming into bloom:

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afternoon light plays with leaves of oak and maple.

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Grove Road

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afternoon light falling on and through leaves is just too attractive to hold off from taking a walk, camera in hand.

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the Circle

note the dried seed pod above this leaf.  what it does with the light is subtly different but each complements the other. 
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the show in McCathran Hall went well, and after it was done and the Moon had been returned there was still some light to play with.

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2nd Avenue

2nd Avenue is small even among the Grove's walkways; it is no more than a couple hundred feet long and of the ( Read more... )

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these trumpets are just about to sound a mighty blast.

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Oak Street, Woodward Park

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honeysuckle can be as polymorphic as Poison Ivy or a Thneed.  like the former it comes as a shrub or a vine and seems to take no time at all to get out of control; like the latter we don't really need it.

even though I have dug plenty (but not enough!) of it out of the Circle with a pickaxe, still it's difficult to ( Read more... )

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Iris were well represented in last weekend's flower show. 
here's one that wasn't harvested for exhibition, still in its natural setting.

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Oak Street and Maple Avenue


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