Plants on Ice
Listen up, friends -- It's now that dead, dried and dessicated flower time of year and we need more TP Flickr Pix friends before some of us get really depressed. We need colors, shapes, lights, action! So skip the holiday shopping (just buy your friends memberships to local enviro orgs, they'll hate you for it), and go snap us some iced flowers and berry frappes...
From what I've heard, the first snow in the greater D.C. area didn't last long, but TP member Camera Slayer (evidentally, he kills a lot of them) was poised and ready.
photo credit: Camera SlayerTruth is we gardeners don't have all that much work to do right now (as if I've done a thing in the last eleven months; this was the Year of the Ruptured Disc), so this is a splendid time to look a bit more closely at things we missed all year, and indulge in the smaller moments that rushed right by during the growing season.
At my place, for instance, it's all about bark and bones -- as in, the dog's soggy stuffed animals and my garden's design bones that are in need of serious chiropractic care.
If you're a TP regular, you've seen this aster before (scroll down page). Our friend in New England, Christine 4nier, sent in a purpleacious shot this past summer.
photo credit: Christine 4nierWinter is also a superb time of year to have a Bad Excuse For A Garden exhibition here on TP...and I know just the "ornamental" cabbage planting I'm going to include. So while you're out walking the dog please scour the neighborhood for any amusing disasters. If I get enough pix that are truly bad enough, I'll put up a show.
Stopped in its tracks while blowing in the wind, this rudbeckia relative got caught up in last week's Oklahoma City ice storm.
photo credit: Clarissa Sharp
12:00 PM ET | 12-16-2007 | permalink
