Wednesday, July 30, 2025

wednesday's words and wanderings and wonderings

Look who's in Kettering, Ohio this week! Wonder if this guy's last name is Trump or if he uses his license plate to show his political support or maybe he's really good at playing cards. His car, his choice. It is an eye catcher and thought provoker.


Out at the farm we have two mockingbird nests. I was at the table to tray up some tomatoes and this mama was giving me what-for. Also at this table is a little container of blueberries and she wanted to come down to get get a blueberry to feed her babies. She was not happy that someone had invaded her space so I stepped away for a few minutes to get some big gulps of water on that very hot day.


Boxwoods are dying in Ohio either from boxwood blight or from the invasive box tree moth. The moth defoliates the bushes so my guess this one has died from blight. So there's a dead bush by my front porch and it needs to be dug out. One of these days Todd or I will get around to it. 
 

My basil needed to be trimmed. Those flowers grow so quickly. Pinching off or trimming the flowers encourages the plant to focus its energy on producing more leaves, resulting in a bushier plant with a larger harvest. Additionally, basil leaves tend to become more bitter after the plant flowers. I did get around to it.

Look what's in my garden - a conjoined coneflower. Side-by-side beauty in one of nature's anomalies.



This doesn't happen very often - Wordle in 6. On that last word, I thought, "What the heck. I'll just go-fer it and see what happens." Didn't break my streak!



3 comments:

  1. That flower is very unusual. Such a huge basil plant. You could make a lot of pesto with that. I'll skip a comment on the car.

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  2. I have never seen a conjoined coneflower, that is amazing. It has been a long time since I have had a round-to-it. When I was in high school we used those as a promotion to get students to get around to ordering Year Books one fall.

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  3. You're not the first one to gripe about that last Wordle word. I got (guessed) it in 5. That conjoined coneflower is new to me and beautiful.

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