I do! The lawn looks very silly. But then Ken gets annoyed with it when the grass and flowers are over a foot tall and chops it all down. I thought he should have PICKED the daisies before mowing them and put them in a vase.
When I grow up* I want a lawn full of wildflowers and I'll never mow!
*I am grown up and now we own a lawn and the fact is that we're both allergic to tall grass, not mention afraid of ticks, and I like to walk across the lawn to get to my herb garden and my compost pile. Sigh.
What a kind offer! And now I'm thinking of the wool -- but no, I'm afraid it's forbidden in the condo documents, and that sort of thing is difficult to change. :P
There are two different kinds of flower, and I don't know what either is. I thought the darker ones were delphiniums (delphinia?) but they don't match the google-image-search pictures. They're not the kind of lupines I know (Maine wildflowers).
I just braved the rain to fetch my copy of Peterson's Field Guide to Wildflowers. Didn't really help. I still have no idea on the front flower and I am still inclined to think the back ones are lupins based on what I've seen in Maine and on the pictures in the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin). If not lupins, maybe hyacinths of some variety?
The problem with lupines and hyacinths (and also delphiniums) is that they don't have that tendril that sticks out with the tiny curl-like thing on the end.
I think these are the same kind of flower (this was taken a couple of weeks ago): http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9kYHVyqm3zs/TBUSdYgPF6I/AAAAAAAAEEo/v3-4dEFkVEY/s512/IMG_8747.JPG
But I can't find anything that tells me what kind of flower dominates the landscaping outside the Stata Center.
The purple doesn't seem to go to the top on these (unlike the recent picture). I'm still inclined to stick to lupins (I'm a stubborn SOB) but with not so much confidence as before).
Btw, after many months of enduring colored lines across the top of my TV screen, I finally got around to doing the heavy lifting and installing the TV you gave me. Beautiful picture. Many thanks. One thing, though. Did it have a remote? I can't remember and I can't find one (but I am capable of walking across the room to adjust the volume).
I'm sorry, I don't remember seeing a remote when we moved. It had been so long since we'd used the TV, I don't know when I last actually saw its remote. :/
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Date: 2010-06-12 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-12 09:52 pm (UTC)(kidding, just kidding)
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Date: 2010-06-12 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-12 10:01 pm (UTC)*I am grown up and now we own a lawn and the fact is that we're both allergic to tall grass, not mention afraid of ticks, and I like to walk across the lawn to get to my herb garden and my compost pile. Sigh.
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Date: 2010-06-12 11:39 pm (UTC)Don't know what the one in front is but those look like lupins behind. As in "Your lupins or your life!"
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Date: 2010-06-13 05:18 pm (UTC)http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9kYHVyqm3zs/TBUSdYgPF6I/AAAAAAAAEEo/v3-4dEFkVEY/s512/IMG_8747.JPG
But I can't find anything that tells me what kind of flower dominates the landscaping outside the Stata Center.
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Date: 2010-06-13 06:41 pm (UTC)Btw, after many months of enduring colored lines across the top of my TV screen, I finally got around to doing the heavy lifting and installing the TV you gave me. Beautiful picture. Many thanks. One thing, though. Did it have a remote? I can't remember and I can't find one (but I am capable of walking across the room to adjust the volume).
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