ME II: rainy cool workday

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We woke up early to the patter of rain and it has rained all day. We got wet walking down early to the post office to get a magic package filled with 12 different heads of garlic all labeled with their names. We are keeping notes and trying all of them while eating the freshest most wonderful garlic ever. The garlic present is from my friend Noey Turk of Yes Yes Nursery. Then we had a full day of work I'm in catch-up mode after being consumed with the app release. I'm starting to try to pay attention to lichens and mosses and to learn to see them. I've just learned that they are sensitive and die off if they are exposed to different toxins such as pollution that cars make. The trees here including my friend the Red Oak have both mosses and lichens growing on it indicating the general health of the neighborhood. The West End is really nice and quiet with few cars and big trees. We had an evening walk in a mild drizzle as the darkness arrived.

12 heads of garlic with different labels on them
Garlic tasting! What do you care about in garlic...tang, pungency, easy-to-peel, beauty, and size of cloves? Let me know!!!
rainy view of a brick sidewalk
Rainy beautiful sidewalk in the West End.
View of a stop sign a brick wall overlooking the Fore River with South Portland beyond
Foggy Fore River. This is our noon time walk where we went to a Shagbark Hickory Tree we met last year. It's amazingly straight and tall. A really gorgeous tree. Right on the edge of a very large private school with beautiful grounds called Wayneflete.
This moss is in a puddle on his foot. Who knew mosses/lichens grew on trees
Mosses and lichens growing on the foot of my friend the Red Oak
lichens and mosses growing on my friend the Red Oak
These are growing higher up. I need a magnifying glass or something.
beautiful screened in porch hidden by plants
Intriguing and lovely detail on this screened-in porch.
enormous squash plant reaching out to the street
Lovely squash plant reaching out from under bushes to come into the street.
Dusk looking at a body of water and land across with a cloudy sky
Fore River at dusk on a rainy day. That long line of lights is part of the airport.
silhouetted tree
silhouetted tree
silhouetted trees part 2
Silhouetted trees again. This is at the Western Prom at dusk, it's extra dark because it is rainy and cloudy.

Have a soft evening.

Sending love, Tawnia

And a very short bird list for today:

  1. Herring Gull
  2. House Sparrow