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It's always great to have moments in your San Diego backyard, most especially if it's as charming and as alluring as this.
This lovely red rose was a Mother's Day gift from Hubby ...all of a sudden she is so Glamours with so many blooms.... and surprise.. an early Iris.....early in my yard ...others are more march time ...though we have been having very odd weather 50s one day 70's then 90's very weird...
any way love these beauties
these line the LOng shared driveway..thought I'd take a pic before the santa ana winds kicked up!
28 September 2005. Sideyard Clematis; one plant, four colors. (I should have said, "deadly nightshade!") I swear, it was marked "clematis" on the pot!
We have three maple trees in our yard. One has green leaves that turn bright yellow in autumn. The one shown in this photo has dark red leaves that turn this lighter red/orange colour in autumn.
The other, we believe to be a cross between the first two. We discovered it many years ago as a tiny sapling growing against the fence between our driveway and our sideyard, midway between the first two trees. We transplanted it into the backyard and its leaves are a red-tinged green turning an orange-tinged yellow in autumn.
We purposely let the Bamboo 'run'.
The cost of Black Bamboo is outrageous.
So for a 75 dollar initial investment and 4 years, we gained bout a thousand dollars worth of Boo.
Living in the same house for years now has grown into something I hold onto tightly. I do sometimes resent all the care and upkeep that doesn't happen around our place, since I'm the one who has to do it and there's never enough money to maintain things as they need to be; our back yard is big and wild and overgrown. There are Pine and Redwood and Sequoia trees I planted as seedlings in the back yard 10, 15 years ago that are huge, towering trees now. They are wonderful majestic presences back there, and I find myself hoping that they'll be allowed to stay there growing ever taller, long after I'm gone.
I found out just how attached to this place I was a year or so ago when Paul's unemployment and my inability to bring in enough money made us seriously look at relocating somewhere else where there might be jobs. I was very resistant to the idea of leaving my house and this area, clinging desperately to the hope that we'd find more work again here. We did eventually, but costs are still high and salaries have lowered; finances are still a big problem. These are tough economic times all over, though, and it still seems to me that things might not be any better in other places. After all, I grew up in a family that chased the dream of better times, better places all over California. And Buckaroo Banzai was right; no matter where you go, there you are. And all of your problems do come with you.
It doesn't feel sensible, or rational, to have grown so attached to this house, this town, the community of friends that I hold dear, but it's happened slowly over time, imperceptibly. I see clouds out over the Bay sometimes while I'm out running kids around and it makes me take a deep breath or two. I have formed deep friendships here, put down roots, which I used to think I'd never be able to do; having to leave here would be very hard now. I'm not sure if it's a side effect of growing older, having kids or having to take responsibility for a lot of hard things, but sometimes I find myself despairing over local and wider politics and economic situations, which I never did when I was more of a transient presence in places I lived before. I have more at stake now, and I care about what my kids will have to deal with. I find my deepest wish for them is that they have long, happy, fulfilling lives, and if I can help that come about by being more involved in the wider community, then it seems like I have to try. It's really hard; my introvert tendency is to want to back away, but having local friends helps pull me out of my shell.
The leaves are beginning to come out on the trees, which was one of the highlights I was waiting for with the infrared camera. Starting to get some interesting views.
This is a high dynamic range image made in Photomatix from three sets of three infrared images each with a spread of -2 to +2, merged together in AutoStitch and tightened up a little in Photoshop. Whew. :)