Thursday, July 05, 2012

Soggy Fourth.

7-5-12 VERMONT: We continue to have daily T-storms, and I don’t even have to clear the culvert to make it rain. Each of the last two nights have delivered our daily standard dose of 0.35 inches of rain. 

The local fireworks were rained out. We watched the shows in DC, NYC and some of the Boston show. I concluded that TV fireworks are inherently unsatisfactory—you need the scope, smoke, crowds, noise, bugs, ooohs and aaahs to make it real.

I was back to weeding today after the day off yesterday. I measured the pond clarity again a day or so ago with the tape measure extended on the bottom and got seven feet, one foot more than the previous week’s measure.

New blooms: monarda, bind weed, purple clematis.


This one is a Polygonia interrogationis. The common name is Question Mark, why is that, one wonders.

The daylilies are about peak here, and below...

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