A few of the tropical plants I’ve been growing. First up is a croton covered in bright yellow speckles, then a leafy plant with bold chartreuse variegation, and a corn plant (Dracaena) with that classic yellow-green stripe down the center of each leaf. Tropicals like these keep things green indoors all year.
This is my Dog Akiva. Akiva has had to use his stroller for the past week or so, he hurt something in his back leg / hip and I have had to drastically limit his amount of walking. I’ve be carrying him up and down the stairs. He is walking a little better I think,…
Not a dog this time. Here’s a friendly brown-and-white goat with big floppy ears, posing for a close-up while another goat grazes behind him. He came right up and stared into the camera, like he was announcing: I am a goat.
I took the camera out into the yard the other evening, the fifth of July. Early July is when the flower beds finally hit their stride here in Neenah, and the low light at the end of the day is the best time to catch them. Here are a few of the lilies and cannas…
Bad weather!?!?!? I found this on my computer screen yesterday morning — my desktop weather gadget was reporting a balmy 122° here in Neenah! Safe to say there was a glitch in the forecast data somewhere. We’ll pass on 122 degrees in Wisconsin. Gave me a good laugh to start the day.
Photo history unknown. St. Mary Central High School and Church. Some buildings stay standing long after we leave them, waiting for us to come back and visit. This one doesn’t have that luxury. The St. Mary Central High School I walked through every day is gone now, demolished not long after my class filed out…
Most people who know Memorial Park in Neenah know it for the ball fields. There is a paved loop out around the sports fields, about a mile and a half, and on a nice evening it is full of people walking laps and kids at practice. What a lot of them never see is that…