General Mayhem

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Originally uploaded by lb_philly.

General Grant is on the left; General Meade is on the right; I don't recall the rank or persona of the officer in the middle and I don't read the uniforms well enough to figure it out, either. (EDIT: It's Major Joseph Rosengarten. I asked General Meade.) But this was the pre-battle conference at the reenactment of the Battle of Sailor's Creek, VA (April 6, 1865). It was awfully hot.

Garden journal

It rained *a whole lot* this morning -- Roy and I went for a dawn raid on the Wal*Mart and got soaked. I came home and found significant quantities of water in the various pot saucers. I made it a point to empty the ones under any hippeastrum lest they get root rot.

There is a second seedling in the Rudbeckia container, looking remarkably like the first seedling and unlike anything I've ever seen before. I think I may hope.

It may be time to start bringing the coleus up from the dungeon.