Cherry-glazed black lines over your eyes

[sovay]

For the first time in almost exactly a month, I got outside in the afternoon to photograph the flowering things of my neighborhood, with cameo appearances by the lilac beyond our back deck and Autolycus watching me make dinner.



The lilac in its full ornament.



Two-toned dogwood.



The windblown elm.



J.J. Abrams, eat your heart out.



Tiger lily tulips.



A cup of fire.



Like heraldic banners.



Just a very nice color of dogwood.



Brittling but beautiful.



Hot-hearted.



I didn't recognize these flowers. Their spots reminded me of pitcher plants, which they were not. [edit] They are foxgloves! Good thing we didn't eat them.



There's so much motion in trees in bloom.



Redbud!



A profusion.



Autolycus, the flower of our kitchen.

Dinner was a somewhat disrupted affair, but spatch located Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here (1943) on TCM. I have seen this film twice and it remains, even at small-screen size, a functionally inexpressible experience whose existence I appreciate equally beyond words.

I would like something nice to happen in the world; all the news lately seems to run in the opposite direction. It's getting tiring.

Comments

[pameladean]

Yes, the climbing frame is a puzzle. Perhaps the plants have a tendency to flop over and the frame was repurposed for this.

The elm is very good indeed in the progression, not flowering showily but being a fine tree.

As for Autolycus, indeed, he is clearly the best cat.

*hugs*

P.

[sovay]

Perhaps the plants have a tendency to flop over and the frame was repurposed for this.

I can't remember ever seeing foxgloves in person before. I'll have to keep an eye on them and see what they do.

The elm is very good indeed in the progression, not flowering showily but being a fine tree.

Thank you. I love having the opportunity to observe it, too. It's so light-filled and shaggy!

As for Autolycus, indeed, he is clearly the best cat.

We think so! It is a title that he and his sister share. They are collectively Best.

[pameladean]

In my experience foxgloves are either impossible to grow or cannot be stopped. But most plants will flop over in some circumstances. I once actually enclosed some dame's rocket -- a very pretty non-native invasive, as I later discovered -- in some unused frames intended for peas and beans. It had fallen after a torrential downpour and showed signs of just leaving the bottom ten inches of its stem on the ground and putting a bend in the rest to make it vertical again. So gardeners might do anything, really.

We have five cats who are collectively Best, and yet the term does not seem to wear out! Cats accomplish many things.

P.