Wizard/Moon
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
I have been looking forward to the conflation of the Dark Side of the Moon and the Wizard of Oz since I first heard about, it must be ten years ago. It was a powerfully Oz experience, to be sure, but some of the correspondences between the music and the film are so apposite and bizarre that in the end it’s really hard to dismiss the entire thing as one big spooky coincidence. I enjoyed it.
Nothing much else to report except that Pokey, the big furry orange cat who lives with John downstairs, has been given outdoor rights. John’s had bad luck with both losing cats and outdoor cats getting injured, so he has been loath to let him out; however all of the inadvertent experiments to determine Pokey’s homing instincts in the last couple of years (one reported here) have ended well, and he certainly had a wonderful afternoon figuring out which doors open when you cry at them. He would immediately demand to go out again of course, but having won his freedom, he wanted to ensure it was still there.
Pokey made me screech with laughter yesterday. I was giving the front bed a good water in between stretches of moss patrol (I now have a better technique but it’s still backbreaking work) and there was a sidestream of water coming out with some force from the where the hose joins the tap. Pokey stepped directly into this jet and then cried for about thirty seconds before he discovered that all he had to do to make this untoward experience stop was back away.
John cannot understand why Pokey hasn’t climbed any trees. I suspect it’s because when we let him out on the leash in the old days he managed to hang himself really well a couple of times when one of us turned our backs on him for two seconds. He was never in any danger as his harness had three pressure points but he was sure one unhappy kitty when we fetched him down. (One time he hung himself on a tree right in front of me, it happened so fast; he was up there for about 20 seconds but he never went near that tree again, and we shortened the harness.) However I am sure he will figure out again that trees don’t bite and we’ll have the pleasure of performing the duty of the Pleasantville Fire Department soon.
snap yer dragons
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
Boys ‘n’ Roses
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
I quite like this picture. Note extremely tough minded roses in the foreground.
SCANDAL in the GARDEN
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
It’s bad enough that unidentified critters of varying sizes are constantly having sex in my yard. But when they are this blatant…..
This is the yucca I mentioned earlier
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
I was hoping it would straighten out and it looks like it will.
Gardening
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
Mom, can you help out? Catherine gave me this but I have no idea what it is. It sure likes being crowded in the front bed, though.
Grapes in the sun
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
And to keep it biblical, I follow with a picture of grapes.
Figs
2005-05-30— Posted by: allegra
This represents a substantial fraction of the figs that set on this year.
