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bunnyhugger's parents' town back on Easter day.
Anyway here's a nice little rock circle in case you need to be captured by the fairy folk.
And a look back on that area. I'm curious what it is and why, in the many times I've been in this park over the last decade, I've never noticed it before. bunnyhugger had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned it.
Oh hey, wildlife! Here's a squirrel who hasn't had enough of me yet.
Indeed, rusted-out memorial plaque, indeed. (It's marker from 1925, a Grand Army of the Republic memorial to US Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War. Or as they chicken out in calling it, the War of 1861-65.)
There seems to be some dispute on the sign about whether the Victory Park Spring water is unsafe for drinking and domestic use or not.
The river was a bit high; it'd been raining a lot that spring. It's not usually threatening to roll past these barriers and into people's backyards.
This is normally a much smaller trickle running into the main river.
And here's that house that had the dead tree fall on the part overhanging the river. Every time we take a walk in town bunnyhugger's father asks if they've fixed it yet, which no, they haven't. (I take it the problem is getting permits to build over the river, even for a house that you'd think would have an exception as it's restoring what had already been there.)
The house at the end of the block that has a lot going on for every holiday.
Back to home! This year the amarylis caught us by surprise and bloomed. For a while there every time bunnyhugger looked at it it had new blossoms coming out.
The Christmas cactus too. You can see the blooms already opened but also the red tips of blooms to be. Also ... wait, do our blinds have warning labels on their bottoms?
The rare macro photo that actually turned out for me!
Trivia: George Washington gained twenty pounds of weight during the Revolutionary War. Source: The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations, Jacob Soll. Soll notes that Washington spent an incredible lot on luxuries during the War, possibly reflecting his awareness that if he lost, he'd most likely be hanged, so ... why not?
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 45: A Great Mystery, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
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Date: 2024-10-14 11:46 am (UTC)