Weather

We are having another Nor'easter, but because the temperature is well above freezing we are having rain. Our weather folk are wondering whether how bad the flooding will be if we get the threatened maximum of 5" of rain. I myself am imagining what 5" of rain would have looked like as snowfall and am very grateful that it's rain.

After this weekend we are promised a week of partly/mostly sunny with temps in the 50s and 60. A great week for yard work.

I have Real Work to do today as penance for having edited photos when I should have been tending to my Day Job last week. I am also six photos away from my 10,000th upload to Flickr and am thinking it should be something special. Dodo's Nopalxochia, perhaps, or mine, or some other really spectacular shot from the Flower Show. If I stuck with the ones in sequence, it would be a perfectly fine but not spectacular Haworthia. That's not fair -- it's probably spectacular to Haworthia enthusiasts. Thought must be given.

Despite the warmer temps outside, the Nor'easter has made it chilly in my office -- right now it's 56F. So I'm bundled up just like in the depths of winter as the damp wind howls outside. We're having some leakage problems. This rain is overwhelming our gutters' ability to cope.

EDIT: Later I'll want to remember, so it's good to write this stuff down. Last night I potted up four rooted cuttings of basil 'pesto perpetuo' in 3 oz plastic cups. The day before yesterday (which would be March 11) I potted up six rooted coleus cuttings in one 6" pot -- three of 'the flume' and three of a fantasy-leaved variety that I believe is 'burning bush.' I also took four cuttings of the rather leggy purple tradescantia and took the marjoram seedlings downstairs to put them under lights. I've been peeking at the impatiens impatiently, but realized today that they were sown less than a week ago. How time flies.

10,000th upload

So there's my 10,000th upload -- Nopalxochia phyllanthoides 'deutsche kaiserin'. At last, a photo of mine that does it justice. Lord knows, I've been trying ever since I got my first digital camera, the old Kodak DX-3600 1.2 megapixel point and shoot. kightp got some great shots when she was here in 2008 and I was crankily envious.

For this one I stepped outside my chronological progression through the Flower Show. This one was taken on the last day, shortly after the show closed. I hung around hoping that Mrs. Hamilton's staff would come to take it away and, in the process, knock off a leaf. No such luck. But my own Nopalxochia, thoughtfully sent to me by irismoonlight, is also very splendid, and I can look at it all through the workday.