Notes

[elainegrey]

* Quaker History Roundtable: 20th Century American Quakerism - 9 hours video of the proceedings available at this time.

* Carolina wrens apparently make multiple nest starts before deciding on one. There was nesting activity at the same time in a hanging basket at the front. I just saw one hop from the nest, so i hope that's their choice. Their territory is 1/2 - 3/4 acres per some random website, it's conceivable two pairs would be about the house, but i'll assume it's the same pair.

* The cardinals fledged over the weekend. Sure didn't look old enough to manage that on Friday! I'm hoping they fledged and it wasn't depredation. I haven't seen Slugger or Louisa for a bit. -- Wait, there they are, foraging out my window. Hmm. I suppose they could have guided the fledglings into the woods where there's more cover?

* We had a day lily bloom yesterday at lunch but it was eaten by the time we went out for the dog walk. I suspect the young buck that cantered by my view.

* The peanut plants that were on the corner were nibbled, but not the ones more bounded by marigolds.

* We had over two inches of rain last evening and overnight. Some of the corn and the poppies are knocked over. I'm hoping that they'll lift themselves, but i suspect i'll need to stake up the poppies and reset the corn.

* I'm not focusing on work as much as i expect of myself. Trying to be gentle and observe.

* [ETA] Personal email box management seems to be effective. Struggling to get a few things NOT marked as spam, but i think i've come up with effective sorting that keeps different response efforts segregated.

Comments

[randomdreams]

How big was the corn, that rain flattened it? That's kind of amazing.

[elainegrey]

It's tasselling -- but i think it may have been wind, not just the rain.

[zyzyly]

that's interesting about the Carolina wrens. I wonder what goes into informing their decision about which nest to use. Schools? Crime rate?

[elainegrey]

Vandalism?

Mr Wren: "So, i have had to re-establish these leaves a couple times. Something keeps pulling them down."

Ms. Wren: "Honey, don't you think that's a SIGN?"

[gurdonark]

I remember visiting descanso garden in California, and seeing the most beautiful California poppy, and a chipmunk grabbed it as if it were an ice cream bar on a stick, and ate it whole.

[elainegrey]

I've not heard of those gardens -- they look lovely.

You asked a while back if there's overlap in what i learned in California and here. I'm very glad i took a class in the aster aka composite family: many of the visible wild flowers here are in that family. In general, though, i don't find many of the same plants. Some that were non-native weeds in California have native species that look similar to the non native here. Plantago, plantain, generally thought of as a lawn weed, comes to mind.

I wonder how long i will be astounded by the abundance of greenery after the sparse winter.