more upside
The rest of last weekend turned out to be about as beautiful as Friday evening. Saturday provided even more gorgeous sky shots.
And even the evening proved to be worthy of some imaging.
Sunday got off to something of a slow start. I had intended to get up early and run around the lake, since I haven’t seemed able to completely kick my cross training habit yet. But perhaps my body was asserting its opinion that running rather brutalizes it, as I ended up sleeping in until the sun was high enough to make the run seem unfun (and hence, not done). Instead of running around in a big circle downtown I instead stayed home, mowed the lawn, and trimmed back the bramble.
After that I thought it might be time to assess the growing things that I planted so many months ago.
By autumn, the meyer lemon tree, which at one point in the spring had over 100 blossoms, had only a sole surviving fruit:
The topsy turveys were something of a mixed bag. The serrano was somewhat fruitful, but not more than had it grown upside up:
The santa fe pepper produced only three or four peppers during the entire summer (but aren’t they cool looking? I think I’ll grow these again, but in the ground or a regular pot next time):
For most of the summer I was ready to accept the tomatillo as a total failure. It grew far more green leaves than either of the peppers (by a factor of 3 or 4), but never flowered. Still, I kept watering it (and it kept needing water). I suppose after several months of it essentially ignoring me I was not quite ready to give up on it (is that tenacity or just stubbornness)? Then, sometime around my birthday I noticed that it was actually flowering! Of course, since then it’s basically back to ignoring me. The flowers (amazingly) are still there, but as yet no fruit. It *has* been a really hot summer after all (far too hot for good growing). Perhaps the cooler fall weather will be more productive … I think I’m not quite ready to give up yet:
Finally, at some point over the summer I stuck a pineapple top in a pot. They’re rather slow to flower (2 years or so) but it’s fairly well taking off. I like to watch them grow:
Then I decided that it was probably time to change the oil in my car …