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Jinx vs. Lightning in the Vicinity

I was wrong — the bottom half of the tree peony graft won out this year. I thought they looked smaller than usual, but were a darker color before they popped open which fooled me. This is the first year the bottom took a turn where most of the flowers didn’t open looking burnt and wilted.

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Who loves the sun?

You can do it!

Things They Didn’t Teach You in Junior High Health Class

Must’ve had quite a spat.

Artist: Dick Sargent

Photo and caption found in ”Feeds and Feeding, Abridged”, Frank B. Morrison, 1949, Eighth Edition

Found in “Farm Journal’s Homemade Snacks”, Nell B. Nichols, 1976

It looks like the top half of the graft is going to win this year’s battle on my second tree peony. It’s been a dry spring, so I don’t think I’m going to get dinner-plate sized flowers, but who knows!?

(sigh) Just tell me how they spelled margherita on the box.

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Hey, man — Remember before iPhones when we had to lug our cameras and gear around?

Fun fact: The New Yorker published over 1,200 of Barney Tobey’s cartoons.