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urocyonI spent the day feeling horribly domesticated again. After fixing lunch and seeing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vatine off to work on the late shift, then hanging out some laundry, I headed out to do some shopping. I got the urge to wander around a bit after the anticipated stops, pleasant enough for a sunny afternoon. Now I have a broom (yay!--though this sounds sad as I type it), some birdseed and a smallish scarlet geranium from QD, a (reduced) pot of basil from Sainsbury's which looks like enough to start a basil farm when separated and planted out, a cheap and cheerful pair of sandals, and a (similarly reduced) bag of yummy Columbian ground cherries.
I was particularly pleased to spot those, as a similar species grows wild all over the area I'm from. They taste a lot like a cross between strawberries and gooseberries, and are tasty just out of hand or with ice cream, besides as jam. (Whatever you do, make sure they're ripe with the husks open before you eat them--otherwise they're poisonous.* Eek.) Come to think of it, maybe they were the mysterious "wild gooseberries" with which Batts and Fallam** "were forced to feed [themselves]" when "their" Indians got tired of hunting for the lazy creatures. The bag I picked up is tasty enough that I'd like to go back and get more, while they still have them in stock and marked down.
The wildflower link reminded me--I was glad to find out that the flowers I'd been seeing are, in fact, bluebells (thanks toclanwilliam on that one). They looked like something I might call bluebells, but I'm used to seeing Virginia Bluebells, with very different leaves. Not yet being able to identify at least half the plants I see has been strangely disconcerting.
I also spotted a place I may try to get a sorely-needed hair appointment when it's open.
Overall, it was a reasonably productive and pleasant day.
Edit: Following links from that Scott Co. wildflower site, I ran across a decent article on the chestnut blight I mentioned tovatine the other day, for whatever reason.
* Also not to be confused with Bitter Nightshade, though the leaves are more similar than that photo would suggest. Another eek.
** The "Totera"/"Tora"/"Tetera" are more commonly known as Tutelo, and one of the towns Batts and Fallam stopped at was at present-day Radford.
vatine off to work on the late shift, then hanging out some laundry, I headed out to do some shopping. I got the urge to wander around a bit after the anticipated stops, pleasant enough for a sunny afternoon. Now I have a broom (yay!--though this sounds sad as I type it), some birdseed and a smallish scarlet geranium from QD, a (reduced) pot of basil from Sainsbury's which looks like enough to start a basil farm when separated and planted out, a cheap and cheerful pair of sandals, and a (similarly reduced) bag of yummy Columbian ground cherries.I was particularly pleased to spot those, as a similar species grows wild all over the area I'm from. They taste a lot like a cross between strawberries and gooseberries, and are tasty just out of hand or with ice cream, besides as jam. (Whatever you do, make sure they're ripe with the husks open before you eat them--otherwise they're poisonous.* Eek.) Come to think of it, maybe they were the mysterious "wild gooseberries" with which Batts and Fallam** "were forced to feed [themselves]" when "their" Indians got tired of hunting for the lazy creatures. The bag I picked up is tasty enough that I'd like to go back and get more, while they still have them in stock and marked down.
The wildflower link reminded me--I was glad to find out that the flowers I'd been seeing are, in fact, bluebells (thanks to
clanwilliam on that one). They looked like something I might call bluebells, but I'm used to seeing Virginia Bluebells, with very different leaves. Not yet being able to identify at least half the plants I see has been strangely disconcerting.I also spotted a place I may try to get a sorely-needed hair appointment when it's open.
Overall, it was a reasonably productive and pleasant day.
Edit: Following links from that Scott Co. wildflower site, I ran across a decent article on the chestnut blight I mentioned to
vatine the other day, for whatever reason.* Also not to be confused with Bitter Nightshade, though the leaves are more similar than that photo would suggest. Another eek.
** The "Totera"/"Tora"/"Tetera" are more commonly known as Tutelo, and one of the towns Batts and Fallam stopped at was at present-day Radford.
