Monday August 5, 2002

Scenes from the past two days:

Crawdad fishin' brings back memories of Nebraska, walking to school through an alley by an irrigation ditch. Somehow (the details of which I'm forgetting...on purpose probably) we'd find a hunk of meat or bone in someone's trash, hang it from a string into the water, and then after school slowly ease it out and harvest the crawdads.

When my nephew Garrett was here a few years ago we convinced a handful of folks from work to go crawdadding with us. Without hunks of meat or flaps of bacon we relied on stealth, speed, and clumsy luck. We managed to gather a couple dozen along with some nasty pinches. The more Garrett thought about it the less he wanted to eat those crawdads. We let them go a couple hours later.



bundle of blooms
I don't know the name but this Yarrow looking plant grows wild around the yard and roadside. The opened blossom can be four to five inches in diameter and the plant two to three feet tall. I photographed the unopened bundle this morning. The opened one was from a couple weeks ago.
opened

Faith • 2002-08-07 11:59am

Queen Anne's Lace?