Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
Like gardening, all politics is local.
Barack responds to smears about his energy policy. It’s only 2 minutes. Watch it. ‘Because this is serious business.’
Meanwhile at the biker rally in Sturgis, S.D. … (parental advisory)
Topiary was the punchline of not one but two jokes on last night’s Daily Show:
Of course, I believe that topiary is torture.
You know. The speech that your great-grandkids will watch in their videopodcasts in history class. Text | podcast [.mp3] | How Obama won the election [British perspective of why these words resonate.]
A current favorite from Matthew Grimm and Red Smear.
When the volume of this chorus grows till they can’t help but hear
When our leaders serve the people, not just banks and profiteers
When the food and labor of the earth feed everyone here
That is one big union
Matthew’s no Larry McMurtry. But he still writes a mean song.
… but no scans.
It’s been warm here, with many records broken last week at Binghamton, our closest official weather station. .
When it was like this last year, I wrote alarming articles about how global warming will affect your gardening. But now, no one seems too upset.
So Sunday was pretty nice, too. So I went out and took some pictures instead of hovering over the scanner like I usually do.
The ridge in January. Everything is kind of muted and somber with the still-low sun. Not the panic of June. But still many interesting things to see if you look.
Some bulbs poking through already.
There’s still some green around, you just have to look low and among the leaves, like for this Asarum patch.
Digitalis ferruginea, my favorite foxglove in part because of it’s nearly evergreen habit.
The hellebores have stayed green.
As have the lambsears.
And the pulmonaria.
There are some interesting red-browns going on out there, too. Heucheras …
and pitcher plants.
The beaves continue to be busy.
And I couldn’t resist a better image of the floating bowling ball from the midnight bowling ball incident.
