Upside Ann

  My birthday was this week.  Each year Kevin takes a day off and we go "hiking" for a morning and out to lunch to celebrate.  Sometimes it is hot.  Sometimes it is wet.  Friday was "just right".  And I learned something interesting.  My camera phone will identify plants that I photograph.  Sometimes.  This is speedwell.  Maybe.   Speedwell, May 2026 - The actual color is a very intense purple which I couldn't capture.   Still I love the contrast of the yellow stamens with the petals and the drooping blossom starting to open.

 Because - we all can use a splash of magenta on a cool spring morning.  What makes me most happy? See that strip of near-chartreuse in the almost-center?

  I'm not sure the sheer joy of this yellow green is adequately captured here.  Come visit.  You will smile. Plus, after far too many years locked in a vault first in Cleveland and then in Columbus, my sister's Warhol-esque cocker spaniels are once again on display.   Yay.

 

 Zupe in the rainbow bed.  It took 3 days before Zupe was happy to stay in it for 15 minutes.  This is day three.  Fifteen minutes, but not alone.  Bear essential.

 

 

  When I got home from dropping Zupe at school, I saw this on the kitchen counter. I was FASCINATED about the way the red of the tomatoes projected onto the counter!  The light must be passing through the tomato and onto the surface.  Wow!!   Then I tried blocking the sun from hitting the tomatoes... and learned the red image was a projection through a red vase sitting on the windowsill.  LOL.