unexpected fireworks

I wish we'd known about Lake Forest Park having fireworks - we'd have walked over to see them. They're still going as I type this, but I don't imagine they'll be going long enough to get there. We can just about see a bit of them from our bedroom window, which is facing the wrong direction.

Also, there's an atypically pretty full moon, which I tried to shoot with spazzkat's little camera, but failed. Oh well, it was neat looking at it through the telescope and stuff.

Sunday's token: 0.1
Monday's mile: 1.0
Tuesday's token: 0.1
Wednesday's miles: 1.1
Thursday's miles: 13.7
Friday's miles: 3.0
Saturday's token: 0.5
Miles out of Hobbiton: 448.7. There seems to be set up for some sort of race or something up ahead.
Miles to Rivendell: 9.6

I've taken a zillion new pictures this week; I've processed them down to 41 postable pictures and am still counting. A boatload of new flower pictures, some landscape pictures, some interesting leaves, and a few desktops. You'll have to wait to see 'em, though; I'm still getting through the pictures from August!

And on top of that, I've also got another 30 or 40 pictures that I'll distill down to 10 or so that I'll post, as well. So I think we're good through September. Of course, I saw a few more things I wanted to take pictures of yesterday. Yay!

Anyway, here's today's flower - one of the roses behind the house, near the hummingbird feeder, which is, finally, actually getting hummingbirds. No pictures of that yet, though:


Two Sisters

I'll probably post an alternate-take tomorrow. It'll be the last left from August!

( Quizzie! )

as promised

Getting this out of the way: zomg l33t Scrabble tiles! Plus I was just told that tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arr.

In other news, and much to my surprise, the flyer we got in the mail from a local (good) nursery noted that now was the time for late-season vegetable planting; and conveniently, I had a packet of carrot seeds spazzkat had gotten in mail, rather inexplicably, from his health insurance company. So I've planted them! We'll see if I get anything. I tend to doubt it, but you never know. It's awfully late in season, and, well, I've never planted vegetable seeds before, so this is a first. They were dated as having been packaged for planting this year, and where I've put them gets a lot of sun, so here's hoping.

It really was a lovely day for gardening in general, really. I pulled out a lot of encroaching ivy and blackberry, and hopefully tomorrow the weather will be similarly fine so I can go at some of the main garden beds a bit more as well. And if it's not, well, at least the carrot seeds will be well-watered.

We also walked down to the market; there's only a few weekends left before it's done for the year - last market is October 2^nd - and I want to get down there each time while I can! Hopefully, it'll all come back next year. Today's shave ice flavour: strawberry and lime. Sadly, they had no kiwi today. But we did meet a friendly cat along the way, who says "Mrowp?"

I've started my re-read of Twilight in the Desert and will post more about it after that's done. But since most of the point of this post is just to put up those last two rose photos I promised, here they are! First, a rose, in a raised planter behind the house, against the retaining wall:


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And secondly, the obligatory vaguely Georgia O'Keefe-esque ECU:


Of Course It Is


Sunday's miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 450.7
Miles to Rivendell: 7.6

And now to bed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.