Acair Fearann

I had the day, and the day was glorious.

Got a little work done on one of the apple trees, still entirely out of control, but a 16 foot ladder makes a difference on the quality of the pruning job (or will if I keep after the work).

Cut the last year’s late summer can growth out of the multiflora roses.  They won’t need attention again till sometime in the summer.  The birds can do their thing, as can the flowers.

Be nice if modern society and government could bugger off….my teeth have almost stopped hurting from the set of meetings I had last week. Almost but not quite.  No paycheck for those.

Spring is coming, the snowdrops and crocus are coming up, the wheel turns and no man will brake it.

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feels like spring out there, but with this winter…who knows.  The horse is starting to shed though,the birds are in full voice, and a few early crocus are sitting in wait with just the tips showing.  Time lapse on a crocus would be interesting.  So the seasons are changing.

Sometimes, though, less change is, if not better, pleasant indeed. Had a lovely dinner last night in what has to be one of the more nicely kept examples of Queen Anne architecture in this town.  (Sibyl and Lee, thank you, and my deepest apologies for the rudeness of nearly falling asleep, it wasn’t due to the company!)  Nearly unmodified in any substantive ways since its construction in the late 1800’s, when it was built for a foreman in one of the town’s major industries, the house nicely shows one of the characteristics of the Queen Anne style: ‘look what we can do with wood’  Not in the over the top fashion of the true Victorian with an abundance of curlicues, but in the neatly turned and sawn trim and moldings.

Stone*, glass, wood, and iron.  With those four, the 20th century was built. With those four* every century of mankind built, till now. The 21st century is built of carbon, polymers, and things undreamed of in nature….do we really appreciate just how major the change is?

*that includes plaster, which is mostly stone.

*I know, copper, lead, tin, etc as well.  But four sounds better.

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We anticipate that any wrinkles will vanish, right now the canoe is absolutely bone dry because it is next to the furnace; the fabric was put on when the moisture in the wood was a bit higher, and therefore not as shrunken.

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out there, so here is a bit of summer heat.

That is a rather crunchy white snow drift currently, but all things in their time! One of the neat things, or jarring, about photographs of the same place over and over is how much seasonal change there really is.  And how slow the year to year change is in relation.

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(you’ll have to tolerate the author’s personal interests once in awhile)

How great the span between these two responses…..yet both correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1yPP92jz1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92Z3bwBVyI

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