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the UFO has been out two days in a row... rumor has it that it might be the sun. i'll believe it when i see it (but not looking at it directly). i have to go outside for a bit, hoping my skin doesn't vaporize...

we used to have people emptying their car ashtrays on the side of the road at the corner and i would regularly have to pick up butts, but gladly that sort of thing has decreased in recent years. my brother used to do that around here too and we asked him to put them in a can we kept in the...

sunny, windy and cold -- if i'd had coffee i would have felt it more...

any lilies we grow outside of fences get eaten by deer, rabbits, etc. some years they might flower but most of the time they get munched on and eventually most of them give up.

oops! :) Mom mowed some of ours too. :( i'm glad i have a few planted in a spot we don't mow...

i wish it were easier for people to get around. i have five full quarts of dry beans that i'll be eating that she'd probably have fun going through. they're a mix of whatever i've had extra in the collection or old beans i won't grow again. there's probably a bunch of different varieties in...

GL :) i'll be hoping you can stick the landing this time.

in the south there were plops and spits from chew and smokers inside the stores. it didn't matter if there were ashtrays or whatever provided... as for up here, yes, they have bins outside the doors for butts.

i went out for a few minutes to check out the gardens and take a few pictures. pretty cold and windy but also sunny. we have flowers up (at least four of the early spring flowers): yellow and purple crocuses and blue and purple bulb irises. i checked out the cedar trees that the deer munched...

the butterfly weed will like a sunny well drained location, but it is a great plant for the orange color and butterfly food and feed (including monarchs) it provides. and also nice in that it only spreads via seeds like common milkweed but better than common milkweed in that it doesn't send out...

sunny but cold and windy out there, i wandered around and took some pictures and checked out some gardens.

i would vote for refurbish an old garden body holiday... :)

love the scientific name too! :) :) :) Scrophularia lanceolata

it was nice enough that even with a fairly good breeze i still didn't need to wear a hat. not much sunshine but still ok to be outside and get some fresh air and ...

perfect! :)