A Double Treat: Skywatch Friday and Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - December 15, 2023
For this week's Skywatch Friday, the last for autumn 2023, I have a few saved skies from around town, and my own backyard.
From a parking lot at a nearby shopping center.
From the Goodwill Outlet (Bins) store parking lot looking west. That's Roxy Ann Peak.
Same parking lot, looking south.
Two from my back deck.
To the west...
... and to the south.
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As for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, well, there are three if we ignore the ragged blanketflowers and calendulas.
Prostrate rosemary.
Blue Boy rosemary
Thanksgiving cactus was right on time with the flowers opening a few weeks ago.
Speaking of rosemary, and it's cold weather hardiness, one of the kigo word prompts for Tanka Tuesday's 24 Seasons was rosemary. I wrote a shadorma.
Rosemary
laughs in North Wind’s face.
She laughs and
flourishes,
unmoved by Wind’s biting chill,
his sharp icy gusts.
©2023 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved
Have a nice weekend.
The clouds were interesting - I've never seen clouds like those in your third picture that looked exactly like that, and the fact that it looked like one of the trees was drinking in the clouds made it more interesting. Enjoy your rosemary outdoor blooms - I've blogged (years ago) about my husband's efforts to overwinter rosemary because it won't take our winter weather.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, the trees do look like they are sipping the clouds!
DeleteYour sky captures are lovely and thank goodness for Rosemary and Thanksgiving Cactus blooms this time of year. They do bring lots of joy!
ReplyDeleteI almost forgot the Thanksgiving cactus, it's in an unused bedroom (well, not used as a bedroom anyway).
DeleteI love both your sky shots and your bloom shots. You are fully in-tune to the world around you and I love that in a person.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad time of year for the blooms, so it's good that the 15th fell on a Friday this month. Interesting skies.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been a pretty short, sad Bloom Day on its own!
DeleteVery nice verse. Your sky views are beautiful, and the blooms are pretty, too. Happy Friday!
ReplyDeleteYou have much better sky shots than I usually get - yours aren't marred by thin blankets of dirty brown smog! However, flowers are more abundant, relatively speaking. Frost is a foreign concept here.
ReplyDeleteNo, no smog, just wild fire smoke in the summer. :(
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