Mid-June, I made a Cathy-style radioactive mess at work. For my readership with the same job as me, here’s a (decayed, obvs) vial that spent time in the hotbox:
So that sucked. SUCH A MESS!
Anyway, after I got off work that Friday morning, Rando and Lis came up to go to the Zoo. Since we were so excited about the Africa! train, we rode it again, but it seems that the animals spend the daytime avoiding the train. Oh well.
Brian’s dingo:
BABBY MEERKATS!
We did get to spend slightly more time looking at the penguins in their new home this trip, which was nice.
The ‘Keet Retreat was not open when we went to ZooPal night, because the ‘keets needed to rest after opening day, so I was excited to see ‘keets:
Then the rain broke the people’s spirit, and we left the Zoo.
Rando and Lis headed home because they were soaked, and Brian and I went to Cinco de Mayo. My margarita:
I got into my kitty wine from New York after we got home from the restaurant, then I slept and slept since I had been up forever.
Onward to yard pictures…
Same mushroom, 24 hours apart:
Here’s my elephant ear plant on the front porch (that may or may not have scared Nasim away):
I’m semi-successfully growing a weird climby rose that I planted in the dumbest possible place:
Ostrich ferns have 2 different kinds of fronds – sterile (regular) and fertile fronds. The standy-uppy things in the center of this fern are the FERTILE FRONDS! (brown=last year, green=this year):
Cool hosta flower:
The growth and flowering of this hollyhock was a drawn out spring/summer spectacle:
When I was in SF, I noticed a cool flower at Alcatraz. It looked like this:
Interestingly, this flower (mallow, or Lavatera) is the closest I’ve found, and it’s been planted in flower bed for a couple years. The rabbits have customarily given it such a haircut that I hadn’t seen it flower before this year.
According to the Garden Conservancy, it’s actually a hollyhock like my pink stalk flower above. INTERESTING!
Nathan’s lily flowered again this year. Good present!
Bonus office chair cat with half grown out hair:
