Modern Photos 23:20
Really, really big Christmas tree? I still think we ought to put a star on the top and confuse the pilots on approach to the nearby airport, but I don’t think the FAA would go for it….
Still standing, bit more ragged each year, about 109 feet tall.
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gardening and Modern Photos and Uncategorized gardening, photography 09:13
One could take the winter off….well no. Anyway, houseplants in this house face some rather serious obstacles. Most of the house is actually quite dark, a majority of the rooms can easily sink to 55 at night in the winter*, and the major issue that pretty much all the furniture Must Not get water on it. Obstacles. Nonetheless, to the running bemusement, if not horror of the other inhabitants, the houseplants are conquering territory. They started in the kitchen, a warm, sunny nook, with one elderly and happy Christmas cactus in an upstairs room since sometime back in the 1960’s. They now have a commanding advantage in: the kitchen, the dining room, the basement (three spots), and three rooms upstairs. And horrors, just invaded the library.
Here are two invaders of the library. I like Christmas cactus, I can’t kill them, they like temperatures in the low 60’s down into the 50’s, the bloom every single year without fuss, they don’t need pruning, and so forth. Of course, the don’t want to bloom at Christmas, but hey.
A yellow one:
And a pink one
*The record is 38, but that was set with a loose storm window in that room; the usual winter low is 47. Heavens knows what it was before the storm windows.
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Modern Photos horses, photography 11:22
For those wondering about the distant speck of the horse in the photograph of the field, it is this guy: Rob n Run, ex-racehorse, ex-three day eventer, long since retired to hang out. He is coming up on 28 this winter, but doesn’t always look it. These photos were taken during a practice photo-shoot; he hadn’t had his bridle on in about five years, I sort of figured I’d better check his behaviour ahead of time, before the person who wanted to photograph him came! As always, just as well behaved as you would expect from a thoroughbred who senses something different happening. That is, polite but about to explode.
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Modern Photos 17:24
It’s hard to see, but the two trees crossed as they came down. You can see the trunk crossing over in the first photo, about seven feet in the air. The root balls were about 8 feet high, both flipped down quite nicely when the trunks were cut. The trees were about 75-85 years old, they had been planted along the old road alignment when the state built the new highway in the 1930’s.
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Modern Photos photography 14:16
Smokebush, purple leaved variety, after rain
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Modern Photos photography 22:35
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