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This is truly awesome.
Jul. 17th, 2008 10:51 amLadies and gentlemen and others, I present to you...a video-game style hamster maze. Yes. I'd name the hamster "Mario". Or is he a gerbil?
Jul. 17th, 2008
Local finds
Jul. 17th, 2008 02:22 pmThings I have seen near my office:
1. There's this area where Canada geese, white geese, ducks, and pigeons congregate and snooze, near the river. I've passed it many times, but today, I actually went down there and got within maybe 10 feet of the birds. I probably could have gotten closer--they were very relaxed--but I didn't want to risk spooking any of them, since they looked so peaceful. There are a lot of feathers down there. I will have to keep that in mind if I need any.
2. Walking back from there, I saw a PEACH TREE growing in a little woody area to the side of the road. Wow! What a find! This is the second wild peach tree I've found so far in my life. I'll have to go back there in a couple weeks or so, when stuff is ripe.
3. Walking further, I eventually encountered...blackberries! Maybe just another few days to a week, and those will be nice and ripe.
4. On walks to Trader Joes, I have found a black mulberry tree. I have eaten mulberries from it. :) This reminds me of when I was a little kid. My father would take us on walks near the old Slater Mill, and there was a mulberry tree there. It was a little ways over a fence, and my father would pick us up to reach the berries since we couldn't lean over that far on our own.
5. Not far from the mulberry tree, there is a Concord grape vine growing on a fence around a playground. Neato, and nom nom nom!
6. There is a plant growing down by the river that might be some sort of yarrow. It has yellow flower clusters and ferny-looking leaves with a sweet, spicy smell. There are also a few wild roses, some pretty purple cone-like flowers I don't really know (probably purple loosestrife, though), and also a vine with beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers that are white, verging to pale pink on the edges. I think that's a kind of morning glory.
Yeah, for all my new location's pretty inconvenient for some things, it has its perks. :)
1. There's this area where Canada geese, white geese, ducks, and pigeons congregate and snooze, near the river. I've passed it many times, but today, I actually went down there and got within maybe 10 feet of the birds. I probably could have gotten closer--they were very relaxed--but I didn't want to risk spooking any of them, since they looked so peaceful. There are a lot of feathers down there. I will have to keep that in mind if I need any.
2. Walking back from there, I saw a PEACH TREE growing in a little woody area to the side of the road. Wow! What a find! This is the second wild peach tree I've found so far in my life. I'll have to go back there in a couple weeks or so, when stuff is ripe.
3. Walking further, I eventually encountered...blackberries! Maybe just another few days to a week, and those will be nice and ripe.
4. On walks to Trader Joes, I have found a black mulberry tree. I have eaten mulberries from it. :) This reminds me of when I was a little kid. My father would take us on walks near the old Slater Mill, and there was a mulberry tree there. It was a little ways over a fence, and my father would pick us up to reach the berries since we couldn't lean over that far on our own.
5. Not far from the mulberry tree, there is a Concord grape vine growing on a fence around a playground. Neato, and nom nom nom!
6. There is a plant growing down by the river that might be some sort of yarrow. It has yellow flower clusters and ferny-looking leaves with a sweet, spicy smell. There are also a few wild roses, some pretty purple cone-like flowers I don't really know (probably purple loosestrife, though), and also a vine with beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers that are white, verging to pale pink on the edges. I think that's a kind of morning glory.
Yeah, for all my new location's pretty inconvenient for some things, it has its perks. :)