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Frittering away
Aug. 13th, 2013 11:13 pm
Currently at Toronto Pearson: 13. High today: 20.
This here--
--is a great spangled fritallary. No, really. [ETA, Sept. 4, 2023: Uh, no, not really; turns out it's an Aphrodite fritillary, as I immediately realize today after scrutinizing fritillaries last night. The orange in its wing margins ID it as Aphrodite rather than great spangled. Anyway!] Dunno what its buddy here is:
In related news, today I made a fritatta, with one of my many rather large zucchinis. Tonight I made chocolate zucchini bread (or, as it turns out, a pile of chocolate zucchini crumbs), with another of my many rather large zucchinis. It turns out that if groundhogs don't eat all your zucchini plants, you get a lot of zucchinis.
Which reminds me, I've been meaning to throw this up for ages:
"What shall I learn of beans or beans of me? I cherish them, I hoe them, early and late I have an eye to them; and this is my day's work. It is a fine broad leaf to look on. My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete. My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks. The last have nibbled for me a quarter of an acre clean. But what right had I to oust johnswort and the rest, and break up their ancient herb garden? Soon, however, the remaining beans will be too tough for them, and go forward to meet new foes." (Thoreau, Walden.)
This here--
--is a great spangled fritallary. No, really. [ETA, Sept. 4, 2023: Uh, no, not really; turns out it's an Aphrodite fritillary, as I immediately realize today after scrutinizing fritillaries last night. The orange in its wing margins ID it as Aphrodite rather than great spangled. Anyway!] Dunno what its buddy here is:
In related news, today I made a fritatta, with one of my many rather large zucchinis. Tonight I made chocolate zucchini bread (or, as it turns out, a pile of chocolate zucchini crumbs), with another of my many rather large zucchinis. It turns out that if groundhogs don't eat all your zucchini plants, you get a lot of zucchinis.
Which reminds me, I've been meaning to throw this up for ages:
"What shall I learn of beans or beans of me? I cherish them, I hoe them, early and late I have an eye to them; and this is my day's work. It is a fine broad leaf to look on. My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete. My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks. The last have nibbled for me a quarter of an acre clean. But what right had I to oust johnswort and the rest, and break up their ancient herb garden? Soon, however, the remaining beans will be too tough for them, and go forward to meet new foes." (Thoreau, Walden.)
