Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
One of the frustrating parts of my job is that this trial is a 5-minute drive from my office and I visited once for about 10 minutes. I need to make time before the blooms fade away to spend a couple hours out there to observe and shoot what must be some spectacular plants.
Compare with same scene and subject in spring. (Page down in post.)
And all those flowers are now little crabapples.
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Actually, I wasn’t actually sure what this flower was. But I googled for awhile and found a post about Colchicum autumnale ‘Alboplenum’ over at Kathy’s Cold Climate Gardening. Turns out that according to my records (that tattered file folder with random packing slips shoved into it), I bought half a dozen colchicums in 2003. But this is the only one that’s still around.  (If you think it’s something else, let me know.)
Couldn’t decide which one I liked best during picture editing, so here’s more.
Sharpening did weird things to this one. As a photo, I don’t like it. As a special effect, kind of interesting.
Kim over at A Study in Contrasts had a great post a few days ago, Urban Excavating, where she describes the unusual things she’s found digging around her house. It spawned a great thread.
Who hasn’t dug up something weird? When I lived in town, what looked like a 4-inch patch of slate turned out to be a 10′ x 15′ rough flagstone patio buried under sod that grew up between the cracks.
Here in the country, the theme is tools. Above are three that I had stashed behind the shed after unearthing them in the vegetable garden: A scythe blade, a stovetop flatiron, and a C-clamp. I also found some sheep shears, but they’re buried somewhere in the shed.
In one of the old dumps out in the woods, I found a great enamel chamber pot. Makes a great planter.
