It’s very easy to tell the difference between the wild aspara-gals from the hybridized purple variety (all male). Ahem.
Archive for April, 2015
Spargle Invictus
Posted in Uncategorized on 21 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
BLOOM! [Shakka-lakka…]
Posted in Elsinore, Gardening, scenery, tagged blue, boom!, cherry blossoms, pink, sky, spring, trees on 21 April, 2015| 1 Comment »
Aaaaand we’re back (in Zone 7b)
Posted in Gardening, Nature, scenery, tagged blue, Scilla, spring on 18 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Street scenes
Posted in Backstory, travel on 17 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The NY Times ran a story today about scenic street ambles from cities around Europe…..
Here’s another place for a nice stroll….
Is the typewriter really that happy?
Posted in Backstory, Elsinore, tactless observations, tagged appliances, happiness, I calls it like I sees it, repair, typewriter, underwood on 17 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Well, you tell me:
That is one smug typewriter. I’m not sure what it will think of being cleaned, though…
Meanwhile, a much more modern appliance in the basement needs a new exhaust pipe. Nothing like damp, linty air spewing out of a clothes dryer to inspire trips to the local hardware emporium. Feh. And just as the weather begins to preclude rapid air-drying of our washables!
Nothing but excitement here in Elsinore, that’s for sure.
Pelts out of season
Posted in Art and Craft, Backstory, Fabric, museums, tagged 1927, Color gravure, ephemera, fabric, fashion, fur, newspapers, snake skin, The World, what they wore on 16 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
For some reason, I hadn’t thought about snakeskin for entire coats. But in those Roaring 1920s, I guess it was a thing.
I think this was October, 1927. The Crash was around the corner. if you were, say, in high school then, the world would be very, very different by the time you had graduated. Or gotten married. Or any number of things…
Ephemera old and new(ish)
Posted in Backstory, birds, tagged 1927, birds, Cardinal, cleaning, ephemera, Lord and Taylor, mop, OCedar products, Oh what dainty shoes, red on 16 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I assume you can sort this out. If it was a rebus, I guess my message would be “Spring Cleaning is for the Birds”? Maybe? It’s a lovely day. [Well, outside children are screaming, but that’s just the nursery school at recess]
Spring expectations
Posted in Uncategorized on 14 April, 2015| 3 Comments »
And then the typewriter smiled at me…
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
You think you know what you have, think you have it set in a sensible place, hope you’ve saved something of the past, even if it can’t tell you everything about where it’s been….
And then….one morning…..
Tumble-twigs
Posted in Uncategorized on 11 April, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Or, “if these Baptisia clumps keep getting bigger each year, I really am going to have to rent or own a chipper to get the spring garden cleaning done…”
Rethorykal Questions 