After a grey and damp Spring, Summer broke out today in the heartlands of England. A warm sun in an almost cloudless sky, with a gentle breeze making lunch in a beer garden a joyful experience.
I'm now sitting at my PC and the Sycamore tree in the front garden is lit by the setting sun.
During the winter months this Sycamore tree sits bare and unatractive; a mess of twisted snaggly branches highlighting the gloom of rain and snow. In Spring it flowers; insipid pale-green blossom that drips goop allover the paintwork on my car. It then produces crappy little brown buds that look like the failed sulphur-heads on cheap matches.
I'm sure the buds have been opening over the last week or so, but today, backlit by a golden, setting sun, it seems to have magically clothed itself in luscious leaves; bright green and as fresh as a new-born baby's skin.
All rather reassuring really.
Carry on.
- Forums
- Cross Site
- The Asylum
- Renewal
RenewalFollow
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
I have a tendency to skim and was alarmed to read that babies in England are evidently born with green skin.
Sorry you got all old and sappy. I hope you get laid soon.
:D
Nexa
Sorry you got all old and sappy. I hope you get laid soon.
:D
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
I went through that in early March, when everything bloomed here. I still never get tired of hanging out in my tanktop and capris, watching the sun set over the tree tops, the pond below me filled with aggressive geese, attacking anything that comes to close to their precious goslings. By the way, never **** off a Canadian goose with spawns. I watched a goose in my backyard attack a big brawly guy yesterday who came within ten feet of the babies. I laughed high in the safety of my deck, to watch this hulking guy squeal like a pig and book it a good 50 ft with a goose on his ***. Ahh, good times 
For once, San Diego weather isn't cooperating. It's gray, hazy, misty and lots of clouds. [:sadpanda:]
Thumbelyna wrote:
For once, San Diego weather isn't cooperating. It's gray, hazy, misty and lots of clouds. [:sadpanda:]
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
I thought this was about premium. :(
Glad to see you enjoying the rebirth of nature from the safety of your PC. Safer that way, what with the bugs and all.
Glad to see you enjoying the rebirth of nature from the safety of your PC. Safer that way, what with the bugs and all.
NephthysWanderer wrote:
what with the bugs and all.
It's about identifying the lesser of two weevils.
Sheez I'm good!
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
After an epic summer, we are rapidly aproaching winter here in NZ.....Wich is all good 'cos the surf gets better and the line up less busy now all the european back-packers fark off to Australia (tho the Brazillions seem to stay).
Snow season down at the local volcano can be good as well, if the mountain doesn't go and erupt again.
Tho' Nobby is right. Sitting in the garden of a country pub (I'm thinking Shropshire) with a beer and a proper pub lunch in springtime is a pretty speshul experience.
I'll be there in July for a couple o' weeks. Hopefully theres still some proper ale-houses around the place and they havn't all been turned into Polish theme pubs or some such....
Edited, May 6th 2008 3:46pm by paulsol
Snow season down at the local volcano can be good as well, if the mountain doesn't go and erupt again.
Tho' Nobby is right. Sitting in the garden of a country pub (I'm thinking Shropshire) with a beer and a proper pub lunch in springtime is a pretty speshul experience.
I'll be there in July for a couple o' weeks. Hopefully theres still some proper ale-houses around the place and they havn't all been turned into Polish theme pubs or some such....
Edited, May 6th 2008 3:46pm by paulsol
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
ahspring wrote:
For 11 months and 2 weeks this crab apple tree in the front yard is as ordinary as any tree. But those first 2 weeks of spring pink petals liter my entire front yard. Nothing like spring greeting you with soft pink petals to walk.
If Alla weren't being such a prick i'd post pics of my garden.
If Alla weren't being such a prick i'd post pics of my garden.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Nobby wrote:
ahspring wrote:
For 11 months and 2 weeks this crab apple tree in the front yard is as ordinary as any tree. But those first 2 weeks of spring pink petals liter my entire front yard. Nothing like spring greeting you with soft pink petals to walk.
If Alla weren't being such a prick i'd post pics of my garden.
If Alla weren't being such a prick i'd post pics of my garden.
Nobs, you must be getting old if you can't figure that out.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Quote:
Everyone else in the family handles the other vegetables
How many siblings do you have?
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
ahspring wrote:
For 11 months and 2 weeks this crab apple tree in the front yard is as ordinary as any. But those first 2 weeks of spring pink petals liter my entire front yard. Nothing like spring greeting you with soft pink petals to walk on.
Edited, May 6th 2008 3:19pm by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
/Whoosh....
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
Well, they weren't my crabapples.
Back in my youth, we lived in a house with two real (non-ornamental) crabapples in the back. We used to get those webs and my mother would try to burn them out with a tiki torch. She probably did more harm to the tree than the caterpillars did. Then I grew older and worked in a garden center and learned the glory of pesticides.
They're somewhat cyclical in range of territory and spend 10-15 years in a place and move on. We haven't had them around here for a decade now. Seeing the black 'n gold worms all over in VA brought back a lot of childhood memories.
Edit: It seems that it's -pillar, not -piller.
Edited, May 6th 2008 3:19pm by Jophiel
Back in my youth, we lived in a house with two real (non-ornamental) crabapples in the back. We used to get those webs and my mother would try to burn them out with a tiki torch. She probably did more harm to the tree than the caterpillars did. Then I grew older and worked in a garden center and learned the glory of pesticides.
They're somewhat cyclical in range of territory and spend 10-15 years in a place and move on. We haven't had them around here for a decade now. Seeing the black 'n gold worms all over in VA brought back a lot of childhood memories.
Edit: It seems that it's -pillar, not -piller.
Edited, May 6th 2008 3:19pm by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Jophiel wrote:
[/quote]OMGLOL IT'S SUNNY AND 80 DEGREES IN CHICAGO LOL DON'T YOU WISH YOU LIVED HERE INSTEAD??? LOLOLOLOL
Damn, it sure as hell was cold when I was there. The wind is nasty and bitter like some jobless white guy. On my last day there I started feeling ill, and sure enough got the flu. I've been stuck in bed sleeping 16 hours a day since getting back.
To prove my point, here is a pic of me stading almost in front of the Water Tower, with a scarf.
Chicago itself was very nice and intresting, the shop attendants uncomfortably friendly, and the immigration guys predictably twatty. Some myopic asShole barman in the House of Blues decided I looked under 21, and since I didn't have ID to prove I was 28, I basically got kicked out. Nevermind the fact that we'd been served drinks and food by some other waiter for the previous 2 hours.
Other than that, we had dinner at Hancock tower, awesome, and took a drive around Kelzie, scary. Was a really cool city all in all. I learnt that Frank Loyd Wright was only 5'5, and that the Sports Illutrated Swimsuit edition doesn't have much sport in it at all.
Quote:
Some myopic ******* barman in the House of Blues decided I looked under 21
naw, I think they decided you looked French.
Kelvyquayo wrote:
naw, I think they decided you looked French.
Heh, I told one of the security guys "This is because of Iraq, isn't it?"
He didn't even smile.
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
Kelvyquayo wrote:
naw, I think they decided you looked French.
Heh, I told one of the security guys "This is because of Iraq, isn't it?"
He didn't even smile.
Looks like RP wants to join the axis of evil. Get behind the stingrays, we'll get to you.
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Kelvyquayo wrote:
naw, I think they decided you looked French.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Jophiel wrote:
They proably figured you were going to try to steal their women or something.
I must confess, I was pleseantly surprised. People weren't that fat, and the women were really hot. If I hadn't had a girlfriend at home, I would've totally tried and failed to chat up a few.
Recent Visitors: 256
All times are in CST
Anonymous Guests (256)
- Forums
- Cross Site
- The Asylum
- Renewal
© 2024 Fanbyte LLC