By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Readers, whereas photographing as we speak, I used to be stepping again to get my topic correctly framed after I felt my foot strike vacancy. Then I fell backwards onto a concrete walkway. Whereas falling, I cradled the digital camera with my physique, in order that’s alright, however I sprained my decrease again badly. Sitting at my desk isn’t on. So I’m retiring to my mattress with some precise painkillers from the pharmacy. I needs to be again in kind tomorrow. In the meantime, that is an open thread. –lambert
Contact data for crops: Readers, be at liberty to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn how to ship me a examine if you’re allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn how to ship me pictures of crops. Greens are high-quality! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary crops! If you need your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it initially of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize by utilizing your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From CG:
That is bee balm. Bee balm is certainly one of my favourite flowers. Hummingbirds like it, and it’s invasive, so plant a bit of, get rather a lot. Bee balm additionally permits me to point out of certainly one of my only a few bits of precise botanical knwowledge: Bee balm has a sq. stem, so it’s within the mint household.
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