May 14, 2013
The deer left the tulips alone (so far) and the daffs have been blooming their pants off.
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May 5, 2013
Not sure where this plant came from. I think it's a pulmonaria. There are some faint markings on the leaves -- which is what you really what you really look for in a pulmonaria. The plant is butt ugly. But I've never seen one with better flowers from anything in this genus.
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April 14, 2013
So my old scanner is unusable because our last Windows XP laptop bit the dust and you can't get drives for this circa Y2K scanner for Windows 7. But I scored a cast-off scanner at work that will run with 7, but spent all morning trying to clean the platen glass (every household spray, mineral spirits, acetone, plutonium) and the glass is still streaky. Oh well. Don't have $2,500 for the scanner I want. Too cheap to spend $60 for something that would work OK. Guess I'll have to start doing more camera work.
Despite all that, this one didn't turn out too bad: A selection of spring ephemerals that I'd have gotten really muddy trying to shoot in situ:
And some fuzzy hellebores, which are much more attractive in person.
And some fuzzy hellebores, which are much more attractive in person.
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April 10, 2013
...from ExxonMobil and Monsanto, via Comics section at DailyKos.
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