From last weekend …
Colchicums via Cold Climate Cathy …
Cimicifuga …
Dew on miscanthus …
Sanguisorbas …
Sedum …
More late summer pix
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Sunday music: Krugman Blues
And Paul pretty much sums up my feelings today:
The Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
Got bless everyone called to serve and sacrifice, your families and loved ones. But the last 10 years didn’t need to suck as bad as they did.
Late summer pix
Labor Day marks the second ‘last day of summer’ around here. (The first being when students returned to Cornell. The third, of course, is the day before the equinox.) Still some nuggets around in the garden.
Scabiosa.
Volunteer morning glory in the veggie garden.
Joe-Pye weed
Backlit canna
Still haven’t figured out how to shoot cleome. Guess I’ll just have to enjoy it in situ.
Sunday music: Tam Lin
Scottish groove I haven’t been able to get out of my head this weekend courtesy of the Stewed Mulligans (aka Woodticks?).
Bonus bloom day pix
I also took time to make some pix over the weekend in tandem with the usual scans …
Floating nasturtium flowers. (Couldn’t bear to throw them out.)
Eupatorium et al in the wet garden.
Cleome, several views.
Thalictrum
Stitched panorama. Place doesn’t look to bad, considering the neglect it’s experienced this summer.
