Yeah. I mowed yesterday, starting early before it got too hot. Came in mid-morning not only grungy but slimy from the humidity. Took a shower and cooled off for a couple of hours, then went back out to clean up the mower. Fifteen or twenty minutes with a broom and a garden hose, and I came in just as slimy as before and had to get back in the shower. Arrgh.
True enough. Every walk the dogs and I take, I come back looking like I’ve been a downpour. The dogs do too but that’s because they’ve been cooling off in the creeks.
You would have believed it if you had spent most of Saturday traveling down the Pieman river on an 1930’s boat with in temps in the lower 40’s and intermittent drizzle. We were all huddled under the awning over the back deck.
On Sunday we hiked from Corinna to the confluence of the Pieman and the Savage. The trail had a several hundred foot elevation gain, so we got to see multiple plant communities/strata. But they don’t call it rain forest for nuttin’, the mud found it’s way up to mid-calf on our jeans (which are still muddy after their first washing). Fortunately there is extensive duck-boarding and cut or constructed stairs, or it would have been to mucky and slick. I made extensive use of a walking stick to keep upright.
“When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said;
“Keep YOUR HEAD”
I’ve always thought that too, but this makes a little more sense, given that you’ve probably already fed your head if logic and proportion are out of the picture… 🙂
Remember this line from Billy Joel’s song about the vapid Boomer (‘Captain Jack’)?
And if you can’t understand why your world is so dead,
why you’ve got to keep in style and feed your head
Well you’re 21 and still your mother makes your bed,
And that’s too long
Woke up to a balmy 35 degrees. Only five days to Winter Solstice. I’m sure looking forward to the days lengthening and the sun coming up before 8:30am and staying up till after 5pm.
Thanks boran, I take it you’ve finally gotten home.
I would have really liked to get my macro lens and tripod on the camera and get some close ups, but it was far too muddy to get on the ground to focus the camera. Plus, it was a several hour walk, each way, so stopping that much would have really meant going half the distance. Another time perhaps.
Well we did loose the internet (and tv) go away during the storms but that’s because they’re satellite-based and the rain kills the communication between the transmitter and the dish. What’s more of a bummer is the storm Tuesday night damaged the cell tower and they still haven’t fixed it.
We had a handful of brown-outs Mon. night and a few tree limbs down, but nothing serious that I saw. During the storms last night there was a rather extensive chain-reaction vehicle pileup somewhere around the CYO camp, but it sounded as if the injuries were not life-threatening. I’ll see how our new server fared when I get to work later.
We pretty much lucked out on both Monday and Tuesday night — we only got the edge of both storms. I was amazed that we didn’t lose power either Monday or Tuesday.
Channel 8 mentioned the accidents last night because the dispatcher said she didn’t have time to talk to them because of it. Glad that nobody was hurt.
Wow. We had torrential downpours intermittently Sunday, but nothing since then.
I am having a slow morning this morning…still need to shower and get ready to leave for the office (I was busy writing in the early morning quiet this morning).
Only 10 more days till NYC! We must discuss some touristy activity. 🙂
I’m just back from the office and realize it was in the nick of time….
Switzerland just beat Spain 1-0 in the world cup in a major upset – it’s like a riot in the street at the moment (and will likely remain so for the rest of the night).
We’ve had multiple storms per day but the pattern finally seems to have eased. Last night’s storm had wind gusts up to 80 mph but fortunately nothing like that around here.
I’ve still got your cell phone number from our Louisville meet-up. I’ll call you mid-week from New Hampshire if we have a signal or on the morning on the 25th as we’re driving down to New York.
If you don’t have my number, email me and I’ll send it to you.
Back in the day, I was able to get some terrific photos of hummingbirds by hangin’ out near the bee balm/monarda/bergamot. (Folks around here can’t decide what to call it.)
And yay, it’s Thursday! I’m looking forward to the weekend. Finn has been waking up every 2 hours or so all night long this week, and it’s exhausting.
Bummer on the lack of sleep. I hope Finn lets you catch up this weekend.
Growth spurt, or teeth?
It seems to have been a growth spurt. Now that he isn’t starving anymore, he’s back to sleeping in 4+ hour stretches.-CG
The theme is Random so no excuses for not stopping by a posting a picture.
Looking forward to it.
We’ll be here for the next few days. I’ll catch you up when we get back.
That looks like a great place to visit.
Hope you have a great time.
That does look like a cool place. Pictures when you get back?
Wow. That looks wonderful. Hope you have a great time.
Wow that is a great picture. Peaceful
Tickets booked for NY 23-27 June.
ONly 2 more weeks! I’m looking forward to it.
Yay!
The return of FFF can be found here. The theme is Random.
Drive by good morning all!
If I was a better planner, I’d wait till 9:07 today to say “hi” back. 🙂
Well Hi to both of you! We still don’t have the house plant jungle moved out for the summer, but at least the patio is clean and ready for them.
Maybe if it ever stopped raining, you would find that easier to accomplish.
Guess the rain shouldn’t matter so much. I seem to come in lately dripping wet after working outdoors, rain or no.
Yeah. I mowed yesterday, starting early before it got too hot. Came in mid-morning not only grungy but slimy from the humidity. Took a shower and cooled off for a couple of hours, then went back out to clean up the mower. Fifteen or twenty minutes with a broom and a garden hose, and I came in just as slimy as before and had to get back in the shower. Arrgh.
True enough. Every walk the dogs and I take, I come back looking like I’ve been a downpour. The dogs do too but that’s because they’ve been cooling off in the creeks.
It’s like a sauna outside here, even at 11 o’clock at night. Everything sure is lush and green, though.
Yeah, the forest is loving it but I’m ready for a change in the weather (which I’m sure hoping I’ll get in the White Mountains).
Continuing on and off showers here. And humid. The Hudson Valley is the new Florida.
I thought it was the new Seattle ..
O wait — that was May.
Something like that. 😉
We had a great time (even if it was dark by 5pm).
White-bellied sea eagle sitting on a branch over-hanging the Pieman River waiting for lunch to swim by.
Gorgeous picture. I see the Bird Whisperer still has her stuff.
Looking forward to seeing more pictures of your great time.
It was more the fungus whisperer on this trip. Lots of ‘srooms in a rain forest.
Like these trippy little “pixies’ parasols”.
The color is amazing. Besides the standard white/beige, we have them in orange, yellow, pink, purple, and red but no blue.
They look like eyeballs.
The Woods Have Eyes.
They’re cool. 🙂
Some of the last remnants of Gondwanaland fern forest species still live in Tasmania’s Tarkine.
That looks so lush — hard to believe its almost winter for you.
You would have believed it if you had spent most of Saturday traveling down the Pieman river on an 1930’s boat with in temps in the lower 40’s and intermittent drizzle. We were all huddled under the awning over the back deck.
On Sunday we hiked from Corinna to the confluence of the Pieman and the Savage. The trail had a several hundred foot elevation gain, so we got to see multiple plant communities/strata. But they don’t call it rain forest for nuttin’, the mud found it’s way up to mid-calf on our jeans (which are still muddy after their first washing). Fortunately there is extensive duck-boarding and cut or constructed stairs, or it would have been to mucky and slick. I made extensive use of a walking stick to keep upright.
The start of our trip down the Pieman.
That is gorgeous. Definitely looks worth a huddled-in-the-cold-rain boat ride.
That mud sounds like what we experienced on Kauai — it could suck your boots right off.
The stairs that lead down to the Savage river (that bit of red at the top is Imogen).
“And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know”
But not any of the ones I photographed.
Lots of bracken fungi.
Beautiful images, keres!
Thanks WW. Light, or more to the point lack thereof, was a big problem, so I took more than a few blurry shots.
I’ve seen some very beautiful blurry photos.
These were only about a 1/4 inch across. They’re in the same family as the little blue ones.
About actual size.
“When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said;
“Keep YOUR HEAD”
Sorry, I was having a little bit of a flashback…
Oh wow. I’ve always thought it was ‘FEED your head’.
I’ve always thought that too, but this makes a little more sense, given that you’ve probably already fed your head if logic and proportion are out of the picture… 🙂
Yep, I always heard “feed” as well. But your analysis CG makes sense. Not that I necessarily expect lyrics to make sense.
Especially since logic & proportion have fallen stoney dead.
😉
I always heard ‘feed your head’ as advice for the future — since once is not enough.
🙂
Me too.
Remember this line from Billy Joel’s song about the vapid Boomer (‘Captain Jack’)?
And if you can’t understand why your world is so dead,
why you’ve got to keep in style and feed your head
Well you’re 21 and still your mother makes your bed,
And that’s too long
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Gorgeous photo, Andi!
I do love the daisies. So proletarian.
🙂
Thamks. We don’t generally get any kind of flower in abundance so those were really nice to see.
Morning to al. Beautiful day here in the Valley. I’ll have to check those photos later when they’re not blocked. 🙁
Woke up to a balmy 35 degrees. Only five days to Winter Solstice. I’m sure looking forward to the days lengthening and the sun coming up before 8:30am and staying up till after 5pm.
A purple coral fungi (Clavaria zollingeri).
Flame fungus.
Another Flame fungus.
Yet another Flame fungus (they were everywhere).
(Everywhere)
Thanks for the travel pics. Fascinating!
These are wonderful photos!
Thanks boran, I take it you’ve finally gotten home.
I would have really liked to get my macro lens and tripod on the camera and get some close ups, but it was far too muddy to get on the ground to focus the camera. Plus, it was a several hour walk, each way, so stopping that much would have really meant going half the distance. Another time perhaps.
What b2 said. These are great! Thanks so much for sharing your trip.
(Note: this is not a reference to White Rabbit in any way.)
My housemate will appreciate seeing the fungi. She was studying mushrooms when kids like us were still studying our boogers.
So what you’re saying is, that unlike me, you never have to utter, “damn, where’s a mycologist when you need one?”
That’s right!
🙂
I may hate it but the ferns are loving the humid, stormy weather.
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Glad to see you still have electricity and an internet connection way out there in the rain forest;-)
Well we did loose the internet (and tv) go away during the storms but that’s because they’re satellite-based and the rain kills the communication between the transmitter and the dish. What’s more of a bummer is the storm Tuesday night damaged the cell tower and they still haven’t fixed it.
How were things in town?
We had a handful of brown-outs Mon. night and a few tree limbs down, but nothing serious that I saw. During the storms last night there was a rather extensive chain-reaction vehicle pileup somewhere around the CYO camp, but it sounded as if the injuries were not life-threatening. I’ll see how our new server fared when I get to work later.
We pretty much lucked out on both Monday and Tuesday night — we only got the edge of both storms. I was amazed that we didn’t lose power either Monday or Tuesday.
Channel 8 mentioned the accidents last night because the dispatcher said she didn’t have time to talk to them because of it. Glad that nobody was hurt.
Wow. We had torrential downpours intermittently Sunday, but nothing since then.
I am having a slow morning this morning…still need to shower and get ready to leave for the office (I was busy writing in the early morning quiet this morning).
Only 10 more days till NYC! We must discuss some touristy activity. 🙂
Good morning, ladies and ID!
Rainy (drizzle) in Geneva as well.
Is there consensus as to when we start at Sweet Revenge?
I might convince swimmer and young asklet to come along – at least for the muffins.
I think the consensus was 1:00 p.m. but we could do it a little later if you need us to.
I just emailed you my cell phone number in case you need to get in touch.
That will work fine for me and curly.
I’m just back from the office and realize it was in the nick of time….
Switzerland just beat Spain 1-0 in the world cup in a major upset – it’s like a riot in the street at the moment (and will likely remain so for the rest of the night).
And here I thought the Swiss were so laid-back and unemotional. 😉
We’ve had multiple storms per day but the pattern finally seems to have eased. Last night’s storm had wind gusts up to 80 mph but fortunately nothing like that around here.
I’ve still got your cell phone number from our Louisville meet-up. I’ll call you mid-week from New Hampshire if we have a signal or on the morning on the 25th as we’re driving down to New York.
If you don’t have my number, email me and I’ll send it to you.
Forgot to ask, are the teenage CBs coming along?
I hear there’s gonna be some really great live music at Central Park that evening — African dance, I believe. Finn might dig it & it’s free.
Summerstage Link!
Hope you’ve found a place to stay!
Looks as if our low pressure area and weather front has moved on to ww & b2 country this morning. Look out you two!
Yikes. I think they’ve had enough bad weather up that way…
should I thank you for that gift? 😉
Yep — it’s quite cool & cloudy up here today. The hummingbirds are here, though, so all is well.
Our bee balm popped into full bloom almost overnight after the storms and the hummers were on it early this morning. I think its a favorite with them.
Oh, yes — absolutely!
Back in the day, I was able to get some terrific photos of hummingbirds by hangin’ out near the bee balm/monarda/bergamot. (Folks around here can’t decide what to call it.)
Can’t wait to see (some of) you in New York on the 26th, 1 p.m., Sweet Revenge, 62 Carmine.
But first I must brave the dreadful drive across Ohio on the diagonal.
See ya.
Are you leaving today?
Yep. We left. And we’ve arrived — in Syracuse. Much shorter driving day tomorrow which is good because I can barely move.
For the truly dreadful, try the LI Expressway while you’re there. Seriously, have a great time!
It’s not nice to curse departing travelers, ID.
I’ll pass on that one but thanks for the suggestion. 😛
Do you have any fun stops planned on the way through?
where in White Mountains will you be?
Crawford Notch and environs.
Safe trip!
Long day, boring, tiring but perfectly safe.