a fine spring day

is this any more amusing when you can read the bumper sticker? "in buddha we trust"

 juniper at ponce, with construction underway on both corners across ponce, with the new construction likely to effectively obliterate this view of downtown

i think i'm beginning to understand cattleyas --- this is a new one i've had about two months --- repotted it when i got it and all the fat new roots visible in the pot and the growth bud there at the right edge of the pot suggest that it is content with its little enivironment







picked up the nephew and drove to fayetteville to meet mike and my niece to make some semi-final decisions on the disposition of jcniris' non-human material remains --- we are about ready for the estate-sale people --- mike and i are both ready to be done with it