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Plants and weather and stuff
The unusually cool weather this summer is having an odd damping effect on flower activity this fall. Usually, inasmuch as I remember, the flower season would be completely over by now -- the fireweed would have fluffed out, the roadside flowers would be gone to seed. But they're all still going, the fireweed hasn't really gone to seed, the goldenrod in the swamp (which I finally confirmed *is* goldenrod, according to my plant book) is still blooming. I took some pretty pictures in the gravel pit the other day -- I'll try to remember to upload one or two when I get home.
We're starting to get yellow patches in the trees, a reminder that fall is very close. At least the hornet activity has died down. I forget if I talked about it in the journal or not, but this was a horrible summer for yellowjacket hornets. It wasn't just us -- everyone at work was complaining about it. The woods, literally, HUMMED. The water delivery guy told me that one of his neighbors found a hornet nest in his yard that was three feet in diameter. I don't mind hornets, I know they serve a useful function as scavengers, and I'm not allergic ... but, enough is enough. Having the walls crawling with hornets and being worried to go off the trails for fear of disturbing a nest is not much fun.
We're starting to get yellow patches in the trees, a reminder that fall is very close. At least the hornet activity has died down. I forget if I talked about it in the journal or not, but this was a horrible summer for yellowjacket hornets. It wasn't just us -- everyone at work was complaining about it. The woods, literally, HUMMED. The water delivery guy told me that one of his neighbors found a hornet nest in his yard that was three feet in diameter. I don't mind hornets, I know they serve a useful function as scavengers, and I'm not allergic ... but, enough is enough. Having the walls crawling with hornets and being worried to go off the trails for fear of disturbing a nest is not much fun.
Someone turn on the a/c outside, please!
That's a lotta hornets. It's a Sci-Fi Channel movie o' the week just itching to go off.
Re: Someone turn on the a/c outside, please!
See this?
Re: See this?