Wordless Wednesday: Spring's arrived early

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Wordless Wednesday: House plants find their happy place

 

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Wordless Wednesday: Summer's Shaggy Look

Arbutus 'Marina' #1

Arbutus 'Marina' #2

Arbutus 'Marina' #3

Arbutus 'Marina' #4

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Wordless Wednesday: First blooms

Orbea variegata

Dahlia 'Brown Sugar'

Dahlia 'Kelsey Annie Joy'

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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Fogust

"Fogust" is a term used to describe our coastal Southern California marine layer when it extends into August.  While common in June, they're far less so once summer takes hold.  The first of August, when I took the following photos with my cell phone, was particularly wet and foggy.

The marine layer is still present every morning, although it burns off earlier now.  However, at present, as shown in the photo below, the Port of Los Angeles is visible only through a haze, as if viewing it through tissue paper, and the mountains to the east can't be seen at all.  This is attributable to especially poor air quality, due in part to a major fire burning about 200 miles to the north of us.

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Wordless Wednesday: The season's launch or just a tease?

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Wordless Wednesday: Split personality

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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Chasing shadows

I usually take a daily walk around the neighborhood in the late afternoon, although as temperatures rise that may have to change. In any case, I found myself taking notice of the shadows cast by plants in my neighbors' front gardens and I started taking photos of them. As I've accumulated a significant number of these photos, I decided to throw them into a short post. Whether you find the patterns interesting or wish to take a guess at the plants that created them (or you choose to skip this post altogether) is up to you. Only two of the photos come from my garden, with the balance taken as I walked the road that runs through our neighborhood.

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Should you be interested in knowing which plant accounted for which shadow, you can find a list in the comment I've left below this post.  Happy Hump Day!

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Wordless Wednesday: Sure signs that summer's here

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Wordless Wednesday: Weedy Opportunists

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