May 26, 2014

The new bee and reality.

The new bee...

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... hasn't bumbled yet. The allium is...

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... peaking, as the late May sun forces us to see the reality, which is that the Pennisetum that crashed like grass surf away from the allium and onto the sidewalk last summer did not survive the winter that dragged Madison out of Zone 5...

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... and Meade uproots and upends the dead things and works the ground into a condition called "chocolate cake."

14 comments:

grackle said...

Found Poetry, Memorial Day, 2014

The new bee hasn't bumbled yet.
The allium is peaking,
as the late May sun
forces us to see the reality,

which is that the Pennisetum
that crashed like grass surf
away from the allium
and onto the sidewalk

last summer did not survive
the winter that dragged Madison
out of Zone 5 and Meade uproots
and upends the dead things

and works the ground into a condition
called "chocolate cake."

George M. Spencer said...

King Bee Slim Harpo

King Bee Rolling Stones

"I'm a king bee buzzing around your hive....I can make honey, baby. Let me come inside.....Sting you bad....Can buzz all night long."

RecChief said...

<a href="http://linkis.com/townhall.com/tipshee/KhhOM> garage mahal</a>

also, imcompetent, detached, flat footed.

Hahahahahaha

vza said...

Try Japanese Forest Grass. Absolutely beautiful!

Unknown said...

There was a time when photography was a learned craft. Manual focus, manual exposure, expense, hours, days in the darkroom.

Maybe a percentage of one percent of photographers today knows the smell of the darkroom.

Paco Wové said...

(RecChief: I thought your link was too important to leave unexpanded)

Fraud: Local NBC Investigation Discovers Dozens of Illegal Voters in Florida

"This local reporter found 94 illegally registered voters in one small region using one narrow verification method. If you extrapolate his number over Florida's 67 counties, that's nearly 6,300 people. In 2000, the United States Presidency was determined by 537 Florida votes."

Meade said...

@vza - thanks, I like it. But I've already ordered something that is hardy as cold as zone 3 — Sporobolus Heterolepis. I wish I had started out with it. Old man — young gardener.

vza said...

Good choice, one of our prairie grasses. That should work!

I have three big clumps of the Japanese forest grass(Hakonechloa aureola, I think.)My goodness, how they glow in the night! With hostas they are stunning.

Donna B. said...

I have lost some interest in photography in the digital age. The creativity of the darkroom is lost when faced with a checklist of filters to be applied.

ohhhh well, that's just my excuse though there is some validity there. The main reason I don't take a lot of photos these days is that my hands shake.

Bruce Hayden said...

This local reporter found 94 illegally registered voters in one small region using one narrow verification method

Of course, that doesn't mean that they all voted. That, I think, would be the really interesting question: what percentage of illegally registered voters actually vote? If a substantial number of them do vote, then I think that you could make a credible argument that a lot more people are illegally voting than are "disenfranchised" by voter ID laws.

SJ said...

@BruceHayden,

the article also states that But voting records confirmed that they'd exercised their "right" to vote that, as non-citizens, they do not actually possess.

The easiest pathway to a voting registration appears to be the Motor Votor Act. The processes for registering to vote under that act have no way of verifying citizenship.

The scary part is in the last paragraph.
Parting thought: A quick calculation, as a point of reference. This local reporter found 94 illegally registered voters in one small region using one narrow verification method. If you extrapolate his number over Florida's 67 counties, that's nearly 6,300 people. In 2000, the United States Presidency was determined by 537 Florida votes.

Amid all the talk of voter suppression, vote-counting, and stolen elections in 2000, I don't remember many people talking about this kind of vote fraud.

K in Texas said...

I was so enamored of the photo as to the petal detail and color, that I totally missed the bumble bee in the middle of the first picture. I always enjoy looking at the photo's Meade and/or our dear Professor post, so keep them coming.

RecChief said...

Amid all the talk of voter suppression, vote-counting, and stolen elections in 2000, I don't remember many people talking about this kind of vote fraud.

Could it be that those who illegally exercised a right that they shouldn't possess were generally thought to have voted for the side that still claims "selected, not elected"?

hmmm? you think?

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