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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Acorns and daffodils

 

Acorns in the bottom of the bucket. Those roots complicate planting them.

These are blooming in some of the local roadside ditches.

Like many white flowers, they are fragrant in a heavy, sweet way. These flowers smell like Brassavola nodosa orchids

This flower matches Narcissus poeticus. It is reputed to be one of the few daffodils that tolerates wet locations. Like all daffodils, it is fairly deer resistant.

Today's work-ticket

Today's work-ticket is to go to the west side of the state and to clean-up the grave-sites of my paternal grandfather (who died in 1936) and my paternal grandmother (1996). Then we will visit a second, more rural cemetery where many other ancestors on that side of the family are buried.

We will eat lunch at a tavern that was started in 1933 and I will eat too much.

The venture (the trip, not just the visit at the tavern) will be an all-day affair. 

Quicksilver's musical moment


 

4 comments:

  1. I like her better than Paul McCartney.

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  2. Bless you Joe, you're already living in heaven!

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  3. Daffodils were one of my mother's favourite flowers so I am always glad to see them.

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  4. The Narcissis is yet to bloom in the mountains of S. California. The 2nd week of May already!
    Therefore I predict a hot summer. Rainy for the upper midwest.

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