Pictures and bugs
Mar. 17th, 2012 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI know this was a great Winter That Never Got Cold and all, and 85F in March is kind of nice if pushing the bounds of plausibility even for us, but it is still CRUEL AND UNUSUAL to have the bugs get started on March 15th. Usually the chiggers don't hatch until May. *sadface* Some other bug has also been biting me lately. I don't know what it is; it makes tiny little blistery hivey welts all over my hands and feet. Dr. Google says it might be ant bites (though I think I would've noticed ants biting me), fleas (from the wildlife?), or another form of dermatitis to add to my collection. Joy.
Maybe if I just fill the bathtub with hydrocortisone cream and soak in it for a while, I will feel less like one big itch.
By the way, I have somehow received what looks like a chigger bite on the bottom of my foot. I don't even understand how that would happen. I HATE NATURE.
Speaking of which, have some nature photos! (And some cognitive dissonance!)
Grape hyacinths at various stages of blooming over the past three weeks.
HONK.
Mutant double-headed daffodil.
My favorite variety.
Chinese fringeflower.
Hyacinths. They smell nice, too, although bring one into the house and you will smell nothing but it, until your head explodes.
Bradford pear trees. I really like the way they look from a distance--like fluffy clouds that have descended to Earth--and I like the way the flowers cluster in little globes, but they seriously smell like sewage. Perhaps thankfully, like most fruit trees they only bloom for about two weeks. These are already leafed out entirely, and I only took these pictures last week.
Weeping cherry. I think cherries might be my favorite fruit tree.
Redbud. Also a wonderful tree. It's hard to capture in a photo, but the way the blossoms cover the branches, from a distance these look less like trees than like a beautiful floating purple haze.
Our oak tree. In two weeks, all of that yellow pollen will be on my car. *sigh*
Also visible: the forsythia, which has been very confused this year. Usually it blooms at the end of February, pretty much the first thing to arrive, but I assume it's been thinking winter hadn't yet come, because it's only just now starting to poke a few flowers out.
Maybe if I just fill the bathtub with hydrocortisone cream and soak in it for a while, I will feel less like one big itch.
By the way, I have somehow received what looks like a chigger bite on the bottom of my foot. I don't even understand how that would happen. I HATE NATURE.
Speaking of which, have some nature photos! (And some cognitive dissonance!)
Grape hyacinths at various stages of blooming over the past three weeks.
HONK.
Mutant double-headed daffodil.
My favorite variety.
Chinese fringeflower.
Hyacinths. They smell nice, too, although bring one into the house and you will smell nothing but it, until your head explodes.
Bradford pear trees. I really like the way they look from a distance--like fluffy clouds that have descended to Earth--and I like the way the flowers cluster in little globes, but they seriously smell like sewage. Perhaps thankfully, like most fruit trees they only bloom for about two weeks. These are already leafed out entirely, and I only took these pictures last week.
Weeping cherry. I think cherries might be my favorite fruit tree.
Redbud. Also a wonderful tree. It's hard to capture in a photo, but the way the blossoms cover the branches, from a distance these look less like trees than like a beautiful floating purple haze.
Our oak tree. In two weeks, all of that yellow pollen will be on my car. *sigh*
Also visible: the forsythia, which has been very confused this year. Usually it blooms at the end of February, pretty much the first thing to arrive, but I assume it's been thinking winter hadn't yet come, because it's only just now starting to poke a few flowers out.
