Brown on brown

Handsome Kit is keeping Pat company on the sofa this morning.

Second sight?

Ken Tucker of Rolling Stone reviewed The Royal Scam in 1976.  

Steely Dan's next album, Aja, was indeed a pop killer.

Second chance

Last year about this time, I spied one white flower standing out in a fallow field of green.  

Yesterday evening, I returned to the area because from a distance, I could see...

...and then I got closer.

There's just one plant this year, but it's the same drooping star-of-Bethlehem that I spotted on April 21, 2024.  The location data in my phone confirms it's the same place this year.  The red 11 and blue 6 were last year's images, and the other 9 were from last night. 

     

Look out

 

Wildflower at sunset

Seen this evening in the same field that last summer held soybeans.  Henbit deadnettle is the tag Google gave it, and instead of linking to the usual "noxious weed" rundown, here's Blue Ridge Botanic with a much more complimentary description.  

Down it goes, too

Remember that red maple we planted on April 14?  Here's a good close look at it now.  Rabbits?  The missing parts were seemingly too tall for a rabbit to reach them.  But something nibbled them off.

Down it goes

At 8:00 this morning, work began on roof replacement of our next-door neighbor's house.  Good Cat Nora has her eyes on the workers as they strip away the 25-year-old shingles and roofing paper.