Thrush of Leave
Oct. 3rd, 2018 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoI had to go get blood drawn for routine tests today. The lab is in a hospital that's just a few minutes from here. The line seems shortest if you go early, so I went out as soon as I got up--I didn't need to have breakfast, obviously. Then I remembered that they're building an addition to the parking garage, and the surface parking is all messed up. I drove past and saw that yes indeed, it is all messed up. I realized I'd have to drive around the block and go into the old parking garage from the back side. I hate that parking garage anyway. It's very tight and very crowded. So I thought, oh phooey, I'll just go back to the Village and park at the grocery store and walk. That's me--preferring the inconvenience of walking for twenty minutes to the inconvenience of driving around the subterranean structure for five or ten minutes.
It went up to 83 today, which was really weird, but in the morning, it was still pleasant, and there was some blue sky, which we haven't had in days. On the way back to the lab, I saw a couple of the biggest silver maples I've ever seen, some big locust trees, and the tall, impenetrable cedar hedge that has grown up around the back of the hospital. It must be a hundred years old. It could be in a fairy tale. And I saw a house where someone had planted a quince hedge, and it had quinces growing on it. I haven't seen that in a long time. Moving from the large to the small, I also saw some big, flat, yellow mushrooms the size of a salad plate, and a snowy tree cricket of the palest, most silvery shade of green, crawling along a crack in the sidewalk. These are the things you don't see if you choose the parking garage option.
I picked the green beans off my vines. The seeds were on sale for a dollar in the spring, and I've had three batches of beans now. One was enough to share with the Diva's family, and this bunch weighed over two and a half pounds when they were all picked. We had them tonight with the delicious risotto the Sparrowhawk cooked, and they were big, meaty, and full of flavor. My painstakingly erected tripod fell over in a thunderstorm, but that didn't stop the vines. They were as I had imagined them in the spring, vigorous green stems twining around the supports, with big clusters of beans for the picking. It just took them till October to get that way! So I'm calling that a win.
It went up to 83 today, which was really weird, but in the morning, it was still pleasant, and there was some blue sky, which we haven't had in days. On the way back to the lab, I saw a couple of the biggest silver maples I've ever seen, some big locust trees, and the tall, impenetrable cedar hedge that has grown up around the back of the hospital. It must be a hundred years old. It could be in a fairy tale. And I saw a house where someone had planted a quince hedge, and it had quinces growing on it. I haven't seen that in a long time. Moving from the large to the small, I also saw some big, flat, yellow mushrooms the size of a salad plate, and a snowy tree cricket of the palest, most silvery shade of green, crawling along a crack in the sidewalk. These are the things you don't see if you choose the parking garage option.
I picked the green beans off my vines. The seeds were on sale for a dollar in the spring, and I've had three batches of beans now. One was enough to share with the Diva's family, and this bunch weighed over two and a half pounds when they were all picked. We had them tonight with the delicious risotto the Sparrowhawk cooked, and they were big, meaty, and full of flavor. My painstakingly erected tripod fell over in a thunderstorm, but that didn't stop the vines. They were as I had imagined them in the spring, vigorous green stems twining around the supports, with big clusters of beans for the picking. It just took them till October to get that way! So I'm calling that a win.
such a good eye
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