June 5

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Saturday errands.

Downtown, this time.

Sheesh.

Look at the planter in front of the library.

Sigh.



As I took these pics, a couple of guys stopped and commented that they had taken pics of the devastation, too.

We were sorry about the plants that were ripped out (and remembered the plants before them that also were ripped out after only a few years).

We wondered who makes the decisions about what to plant (too many amelanchiers for the space; too many red-leafed redbuds who create too much shade for other things to happily grow beneath). We wondered whose money is paying for all this, in hard economic times.

We wondered if they are going to rip the planter right out, entirely......



Sheesh.

The library prides itself on being all green and appropriate and all, but this is wasteful, wasteful, wasteful.

Sigh.



Ok.

Moving along.

I was sitting in the car with the window open, and these (cottonwood?) seeds blew in and landed on my knee.

They were so pale, against my black jeans..........

I did actually "enhance/color/remove color", as there was one little (distracting) patch of tan in this otherwise black and white image.





Uh oh.

We have laundry on the line..............



It threatened all day, and was very humid and still.

I finally collected the (quite damp) wash at about 7:00 pm. In the winter, we hang the wash on wooden racks (and a bit of laundry line) in the basement. On the 5th, I set a couple of those racks up in the living room, and spread out the wash.

It had begun to sprinkle just as I was walking back to the house with the basket of wash, but didn't really rain until several hours later (when we had a LOT of rain, with some wind and thunder).

Wilbur and I went for a walk after I dealt with the wash.

I had noticed these peonies on our walk on the 4th. Our walk was cut short, on the 4th, because it started to rain. This garden is on a block that is inside (rather than on) our usual route.

Too bad I didn't go by here when these were in their prime............

Perhaps next year I will remember to make a point of walking here, in peony season. Or maybe I'll even think to visit the University's Arboretum, which has a very large and extensive peony garden.......











So interesting how you can walk very near (within sight of) something, over and over, and never notice it...........

This garden is on a small triangle of land between roads. (This is where they have been working on the road. We saw the machines and piles of pipes and hoses and whatnot, a few weeks ago.)

I saw people working on the garden, earlier in the year, and I would surely have thanked them profusely, had I known what they were creating.

There is a large bed here, full of poppies and bachelor buttons. These poppies are smaller, and later, than the others we have looked at.

The color!!!









Wow.









Most of the poppies are that astonishing orangey red.

But not all......







Closeup of the above ... I didn't see the water droplets until I had the image on "the big screen."







You can see that there will be sidewalk here.

I think they are done working on replacing whatever plumbing they were replacing under the road, but they are not done putting everything to rights.

Isn't this gorgeous?



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