July 28

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This is the last of my daylilies for this year.  I'm sorry they are finished.

I believe this is loose strife.  It's pretty stuff, but horribly invasive, especially in waterways.

The chef in the novel Hail to the Chef is the White House executive chef.  There's lots of detail about getting from here to there within the White House.  I wonder how much of it is true....  It's cool to think we're getting an actual glimpse behind the scenes, but I don't know if that's the case.

I like the protagonist, and the setting is interesting.  I like it better when the murder victim(s) are nasty unpleasant people (nice guys, here).

Someone else's daylilies.

Someone else's peppers, in a lawn-extension vegetable garden.

Ok.  Here's something new.  Generator?  Plugged into ... whatever is up above, on the telephone pole.....

The red cord, below, goes up from the generator.

(The bulgy thing that looks like it's hanging down from that gray box is actually a street light, up much higher.)

I saw two generators, on successive corners, on the 28th.  Both plugged into the boxes up the poles.

I'd never seen that before.  I wonder what it was about....................

I think they should leave me a note, explaining what's going on, don't you?  So we're all not left wondering?



Back to things I have seen before -- milkweed pods.  I should be looking to see what butterfly weed pods look like!

Coneflowers and echinops.  Nice.............

Isn't it interesting that the flowers come out of the ends of those spikes-built-of-smaller-spikes?

Coneflower.

Mayapples.  I believe each plant consists of one stem, and one of those split-umbrella leaves.

The "apple" grows under the split umbrella.

Crinkled rose.

Incipient Japanese anemone flowers.

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