From intrepid New Yorker and master photographer Ema:
Cellphone | June, July, August 2022
Note also the great looking cherries on Central Park West (the tree is actually in Central Park)
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What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
OzarkHillbilly
OK ok, I ad-libbed a little bit there. Sue me.
raven
Great pics!
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: You mentioned taking care of your wife last night, what’s up? Mine broker a bone in her foot when she was walking Artie and a branch fell from a tree behind them. Artie really gets spooked by any noise behind her and she bolted and the boss lady fell. She’s in a walking boot but it’s really going to limit her gardening but she can still get up to her studio to do her art.
OzarkHillbilly
It’s just life. 63 yo and working at a job she hates to maximize her SS. I just do whatever I can to make home a place of ease for her.
eta: hope your wife’s foot heals up properly. My eldest granddaughter broke her hand at football practice when she ended up at the bottom of a pile. She is not happy about it either as not only is she out of football for the time being, she can’t ride her horses either.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh good, (that she’s not injured) mine took hers at the earliest date and I took mine at the latest. It’s going to be interesting to see how much they bump it up with this here inflation.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Will you marry me too?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I ain’t a Mormon and this ain’t Utah but for half your pension we can talk.
satby
You have a sharp eye, ema! I bet hundreds of people pass those spots and don’t notice all the little details you do.
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s one happy pup! I’m dogsitting my son’s dog Odie who you may remember was rescued after he was found tied up and abandoned on the side of a rural road. My cat Peanut is thrilled.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: That pic looks like Peanut is saying, “Hey! That’s my chair!” You’ll just have to get Peanut a dog of his own.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: right after I took that pic Peanut got on the same chair to nuzzle up to his new pet. He’s in for a disappointment today when Odie goes back to his daddy.
satby
@rikyrah: 🙋🌞
Ken
Great pictures, though I admit to twitching at the sixth one. I have been trying to eradicate a trumpet vine for over a year now, and the vine is winning.
Ken
@satby: As with so many things in life, the solution is to get another dog.
satby
@Ken: Unlikely. After 50+* years of rescue and scores of both dogs and cats, I’m down to six cats only. Three of whom are old. And that’s enough.
*I’m only counting since I was an adult. The strays and other creatures I brought home as a kid were my parent’s rescues, since they actually fed and paid the bills. I had great parents.
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
That made me smile and cry tears of happiness. Such joy!
Ken
@SiubhanDuinne: That is delightful, but I have to wonder at the circumstances of the rescue. Was the dog being raised by kangaroos?
OzarkHillbilly
@SiubhanDuinne: Ema is a wonderful person who shares all the beauty she sees. No wonder he is such a happy pup.
O. Felix Culpa
Good morning! Thank you for the happy pictures. We are (more or less) fully moved into our new home in Albuquerque. It’s a lovely place, complete with slightly neglected garden with *possibilities.* I have some digging and planting in my future, plus research on what thrives in the local microclimate.
OzarkHillbilly
@O. Felix Culpa: Congrats!
oldgold
—————-“CARPE DIEM!”——————-
Spent the week burying
herpepersonpe ridden carp corpses in the coffee grounds that cover my WOKE! garden, West of Eden. To be honest about it and not too koi, this morbid work, aside from leaving me sore (carpal tunnel?) caused the smithy of my soul to shudder.As I was morosely burying the carp, my neighbor, the ever randy Dirty Grind barista, Phil Anders, climbed over the border wall separating out properties (he paid for it) to ask, “OG, why do you have a garden? You don’t eat any crudités?” In my existential funk, to explain myself, I told him this coffee related story.
“Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe’, revising his draft of ‘Being and Nothingness.’ He requests of the waitress, who is also a student of his, “ A cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “ I’m sorry, Monsieur, we have no cream, only milk.” Sartre replies, “Then, I will have my coffee, please, with no milk.“
Phil, “OG, Your story is meaningless.”
Me, “So true.”
——————- “CRAPE DIEM!” ————–
There, I feel better. My existential angst has abated. A morning vowel movement will do that for you.
satby
😆👍
OzarkHillbilly
@oldgold: That was painful. I loved it.
O. Felix Culpa
@OzarkHillbilly:
Thanks! Fingers crossed we can–and will continue to want to–stay in this place a while. We’re taking a break from homeownership for the foreseeable future.
munira
Love the photos. There are many beautiful things growing in cities and it’s important to see and share them.
WaterGirl
@satby: Your son’s dog looks like a total goofball, in all the best ways! What a happy pup.
Miss Bianca
@satby: Peanut loves dogs? :)
MomSense
Garden pics are lovely. I managed to weed three beds this weekend. Going to tackle the worst one today.
I’m in a holding pattern just trying to make things look neat. Between whatever is burrowing and destroying the side bed and the drought I’ve totally lost my gardening mojo.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: You haven’t lost your gardening mojo. Sadly, voles and bunnies > garden mojo.
StringOnAStick
Spent yesterday building a short block wall so a compacted decomposed granite path can be placed between the two sides, making raised beds inside the walls since the native soil is so compacted and rocky. I can finish it today and all the clean up; adding drip irrigation and native plants once it cooks down this fall. Next is digging the French for the last French drain the house needs. The old landscaper saying that the actual planting is the last 5% of a project is very, very true.
oldgold
@WaterGirl:
Plagued with caffeinated moles, in an attempt to make lemonade out of lemons, in addition to the damn carp, I buried avacados in West of Eden.
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
Thanks for that. It’s also the drought and the changing climate. I’m not sure what to plant anymore because our weather keeps changing so dramatically. Even the catmint is sad this summer.
WaterGirl
@oldgold: One of these days your neighbors are going to report you for repeated, strange burying!!! :-)
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Seriously? Catmint IS NEVER SAD. Wow. Climate change is real.
oldgold
@WaterGirl: Years ago, I really was a grave digger. Some day, hopefully, I will have an opportunity to write about that.
Anyway, you buried my lede, the joke I was circling to was – guacaMOLE’!
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
We are in the D-2 Severe Drought category. Even when it did rain last week the ground was so dry it couldn’t absorb much of the rain.
Mai Naem mobile
@Ken: i regularly drive by a house that has the vine in the picture. I’ve been trying to figure out what it is and you figured it our for me. . Its really pretty. The spot that its in really adds to this house(along a picket fence and the arch over the front gate.) I consider the color peach and that’s what I’ve been looking up but I guess its a yellow trumpet.
Wombat Probability Cloud
Thanks for the photos. The “cherry” in Central Park has opposite leaves,* so I think it’s actually a dogwood, specifically Cornus mas, the “Cornelian Cherry.” Fruits are edible but supposedly astringent if eaten raw. We’ve got a few of these in our neighborhood in Madison WI, and this is a good reminder to sample them this year.
*true cherries (genus Prunus), have alternate leaves.
sab
US Drought monitor website shows basically the whole third of the SW of theq country in various stages of drought. And this is based from their normal (very dry by anyone else’s standards.)
ema
Thank you all!
ema
@Wombat Probability Cloud:
I did think the “cherries” were a bit small but I didn’t know what else it could be. And now I know. BJ = Full Service Blog!
sab
@Wombat Probability Cloud: @ema:
I did not know that.
We have a wild cherry about to eat the house. We had another that used to dye my whitish labrador retriever with purple spots like a dalmation. Chopped tree down because it was unwell and dropping large branches on the driveway.
We have a new cherry probably too close to the house. I do not want to make the inevitable decision. It is a very pretty tree.
Wombat Probability Cloud
@sab: You need to consult with the expert, John Cole, on this issue.
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
Tatum is one cute puppy. Thanks for sharing his jumpiness with the rest of us!! Wife LoL’ed! What joy in that little dog…