A nearby Arboretum has neatly-arranged beds of asters and other meadow flowers; this is one of the stalks left standing: The seedheads are small, maybe the size of a quarter, but something about their branches makes me think these might be some relative of yarrow. Because the weather has still refused to produce snow, I [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Winter Interest
Posted in Elsinore, Gardening, tagged asters, grey, meadow flowers, seedheads, stalking, stalks, unseasonable weather, winter gardening on 31 January, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Unexpected luck
Posted in Art and Craft, Backstory, tactless observations, tagged Chinese art, Dover Image Archives, embroidery, good fortune, luck on 30 January, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here, I have extra:
Ice and Asters
Posted in Gardening, tagged blue, ice glaze, ice storm, night photography, sleet, winter gardening on 24 January, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It wasn’t until mid-January that the asters finally gave up on blooming — the suntrap out back keeps everything more temperate, and the weather hadn’t really gone into the 20F range before then. This, to a Northerner, is utterly ridiculous, but here we are…. Then finally some snow and ice arrived, and the asters went [...]
Accidental candied lavender buds
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged sugar syrup, vodka tonic on 6 January, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I was making a sugar syrup for a potentially yummy Lavender Vodka Tonic, and realized that the buds that had been strained out of the mixture were right tasty… Okay, not a lot of content, but a start.
