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Blue and gray skies this morning looking over the marsh. It is 75 degrees (converted into metric, this is 23 grams).

Look for clues all week, in anything written and photographed, even alt text. I will favorite correct guesses.

Coming up this week: kayaking, cycling, thick trunks, Black history, landscapes, jazz and more. But where am I?

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#travel #AmazingMay

Scene across a marsh. Starting at the foreground, there is marsh and decorative grass, then a field of dead marsh grass in an area the tide does not come into anymore. In the distance can be seen a waterway and islands of marsh grass, even homes. Flanking the view on each side are oak trees, obscuring buildings on the right. Complex cloud formations over a blue sky with puffy white lower clouds and blue-gray wisps above.

Saturday night at the frog pond.
Listener discretion is advised for tadpoles.

Males call, females choose. Circle of life continues.

#soundscape #frogs #nature #AmazingMay #sonography

When #landscaping, consider everyone's view. For example, the view of sidewalk walkers, if you are lucky enough to have a sidewalk.

Avoid typical long straight lines. Design so that walkers pass through patterns of flowers to feel "inside" the garden rather than outside looking in.

Another benefit to landscaping the far side of the sidewalk is not having to care for the grass. Hardly anything to do in the heat of the summer.

Landscapes should embrace viewers.

#gardening #AmazingMay

An old Dachshund, Ally, enjoys sidewalk landscaping which is an improvement over standard lawn grass on both sides.

In the foreground are Japanese Irises on both sides, some flowering. In the midground are clumps of light green Liriope on both sides growing out to their larger size. There is an asymmetrical pattern of these clumps. Yellow pansies are seen to the right. Toward the end of the sidewalk in front of this suburban home reappears Japanese Irises on both sides.

Will a Kniphofia by any other name be less bright? This flower contains plenty of nectar for butterflies and hummingbirds. It looks good with other plants with bundles of slender leaves like Japanese Iris and Daylilies.

#Kniphofia a.k.a. Torch Lily a.k.a. Red Hot Poker flower

#Gardening #AmazingMay #Florespondence #Biodiversity

Close-up of a Torch Lily, bright red, maybe orange-red. This flower has a structure similar to a corn cob, as it has a pointy end and smaller florets bundled all around it, although it is smaller and softer.

Coreopsis have bloomed, joining Chrysanthemum (Robinson's Red) and Japanese Iris.

This color-coordinated display should please Beloved, the Women Who Walk, and pollinators.

Gardeners are large scale flower arrangers.

#NativePlants #Gardening #AmazingMay #Florespondence

On the left are purple Japanese Iris flowers. They contrast nicely with the pink-red of the Chrysanthemum flowers. The Coreopsis are butter yellow, matching the center of the Chrysanthemum flowers.

View from front door, morning of May 4. Flowers in pots and in beds, but also notice flowering clover and very tall grass patches.
Pollinators 1 HOA 0

#NoMowMay
#gardening #AmazingMay #Florespondence

On the left and right are pots of unflowered Gladiolas with yellow pansies and dark purple Calibrachoa spilling out.

In the center of the view is a step and concrete walkway heading to the left. Beyond is multiple flower beds rising up a hill to a street. Mostly purple Irises in the beds, but also yellow Daylilies.

A view yesterday of five flower beds featuring Japanese Iris, now starting to bloom. In most cases here, the Iris are used in front border along curvy beds. Later, taller Sunflowers and Zinnias will arise from spaces behind.

Also visible is a terrace bed full of Milkweed about to bloom for the pollinators. More on that soon.

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#gardening #AmazingMay #florespondence

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