Saturday, November 05, 2005
Our Freaky Fall
by Tom Bozzo
Yes, that's basil. And yes, it's in a planter too big to be moved indoors.
We have happy, happy lavender, too.
There's still a lot of green in my office view of the Shorewood Hill (here's a snowy winter view), but we are seeing some brilliant color from our combination of a dry summer and a not-so-dry early fall. Oscar has some great pictures of the ongoing change at The Columnist Manifesto. Sadly, last weekend's drive to the Twin Cities showed that the drab past-peak landscape is only a short reversion to mean away.
It is actually the first week of November, and as far as I know, Madison hasn't been scooped up into an alien arcology whose proprietors want to experiment with how upper-midwesterners would deal with an extended transition into winter.
Yes, that's basil. And yes, it's in a planter too big to be moved indoors.
We have happy, happy lavender, too.
There's still a lot of green in my office view of the Shorewood Hill (here's a snowy winter view), but we are seeing some brilliant color from our combination of a dry summer and a not-so-dry early fall. Oscar has some great pictures of the ongoing change at The Columnist Manifesto. Sadly, last weekend's drive to the Twin Cities showed that the drab past-peak landscape is only a short reversion to mean away.
