@DemocracySpot @TheBreadmonkey Or there is this famous photo in which almost everything is asymmetrical or crooked, but … it works.

@harmonygritz @polotek Rondo Ave and St. Anthony Ave in St. Paul, Minnesota sacrificed for I-94. There was an abandoned rail line nearby, but no, they chose too rip up homes and businesses instead.

A tree at my mom’s place that I have made fun of, calling it a cottonwood that thinks it is an oak tree — by which I mean it is the prettiest cotton wood I’ve ever seen.

@pluralistic
Maybe I'm not being very bright, but Gatsby's parties were fun (everybody said so), and intended to be fun enough to attract Daisy. Fun is good, yes?

Gatsby, a villain, sort of; Daisy and Tom definitely.

Again, maybe I'm not being very bright about this.

@dave_cochran @mekkaokereke

No! Look at the comments! Read them! Almost every one was written in bad faith.

I've been thinking for years that the right has been learning to do this from their leadership, A third of the U.S. population will respond in bad faith to every publicly decent thing anyone does.

We, all, have a very long slog ahead of us.

@eugeneparnell This is the meadow's second spring. Mostly it is an annual bee lawn mix that Northwest Meadowscapes used to sell. Their present version is a bit different -- it lacks the dwarf Gordita and they've added yarrow.

I added Collinsia, Rhinanthus, Prunella, Eriophyllum, lupine, Lomatium and a few other perennials that have not shown up yet. Some I got from Northwest Meadowscapes, some from Inside Passage Seeds.

The grasses came mostly from the lawn I started with.

Early summer in the front yard #Meadow ( #beelawn ). There is a wider variety of pollinators this summer. I can't ID any of them -- they are too quick, and I'm to dumb.

Featured Flowers:
Oregon Sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum)
Self-Heal (Prunella vulgars)
Dwarf Godetia (Clarkia amoena)
Purple Clarkia (Clarkia purpuria)
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Dutch White Clover (Trifolium repens)

#nativeplants #WashingtonState

In the spirit of documenting the good and the bad, we are at the spring between time in the front yard #meadow: after the early bloomers (sea blush, yellow rattle and blue-eyed mary), but before the late spring bloom (self-heal, Oregon sunshine, and Clarkia). Bridging the gap is scattered blooms of white meadowfoam and white clover.

Incidentally, white clover seems to be opium for bumblebees -- they scour the faded blooms well into July in hopes of find some nectar.

#bees #beelawn #Trifolium

@EllenInEdmonton
Bitter and sour are kinda sorta opposites (but not really). Acids (low pH) are sour, many bases (high pH) are bitter, but not all, and some bitter things are not basic. I think what we taste as bitter is correlated with basic pH, but not the same.

Grapefruit juice and some IPAs are both bitter and sour. I can explain the grapefruit juice -- the juice is sour and the pulp is bitter.

I have had the misfortune to tastie some IPAs. The better ones taste like grapefruit juice.

Sea blush (Plectritis congesta) and yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor) are in color and covering the front yard #meadow even where the grass was just mowed. The bumblebees are happy.

White meadow foam (Limnanthes alba) is starting to flower in lots of places. Small patches of Nemophila, Lupinus bicolor, and Collinsia are blooming.

The only perennial in bloom is Spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum).

Curiously, very little dutch white clover this year.

#beelawn #NativePlants #Annuals #Washington

There are, it seems, seeds of tiny annual plants sitting at base of our lawn grasses waiting for an opening in the turf to grow, flower, and quickly set seed. I've become acquainted with a few in my front yard #meadow ( #BeeLawn ): a Geranium (dissectum?), a Veronica (arvensis?), spring whitlow-grass, hairy bittercress, parsley piert. They are all non-native, but only the bittercress seems invasive.

I found a new one: Myosotis discolor (scorpion grass). I rather like this one.

#Annuals #weeds

Last year, about this time, the front lawn was covered bright blue flowers of Nemophila menziesii (baby blue-eyes). Complete crop failure this year -- like six plants in the whole lawn. Even threw out a lot of extra seed last fall and still. Very puzzling.

Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor), a semiparasitic annual that feeds on grasses, has spread all across the front yard #meadow ( #BeeLawn ).

I'm impressed. In spots it has colonized -- see photo. It will bloom next month.

#Washington
#NativePlants
#perennials
#Rhinanthus
#phenology
#PacificNorthwest

The front yard #meadow ( #BeeLawn ) is beginning to color up.

The first photo is from April 9. Very few of the Sea Blush (Plectritis congesta) were showing pink.

The second and the rest are from today.

#Washington #weeds #NativePlants #Annuals #Plectritis #phenology #WashingtonState #PacificNorthwest

The second group of spring flowers in the front yard #meadow ( #BeeLawn ) are not all annuals.

The world's great weed: Dandelion, a perennial (no photo).

A another non-native weed: Corn Speedwell (Veronica arvensis) -- annual ground cover one inch tall .

A native perennial: Spring Gold (Lomatium utriculatum) -- sowed this two years ago, this is the first time I've noticed it. The first year foliage is so fine and grass-like you'd be hard pressed to see it.

#Washington
#weeds
#NativePlants

The first spring flowers in the front yard #meadow ( #BeeLawn ) are all annuals.

The weed: hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) (no photo)

A another weed: spring whitlow-grass (Draba verna) -- kind of attractive.

A native annual: Small flowered blue-eyed mary (Collinsia parviflora) -- see my profile's header, thumb meets flower.

#Washington #FlowerPhoto #Collinsia #Draba #Cardimine #annuals #weeds #NativePlants