The rains have stopped for the moment, and my Echinocereus triglochidiatus finally opened. The grey blotches on the epidermis are due to the workers who painted the house last year, who painted the cacti, too.
Category: Photo gallery
Blossom gazing
Cherry trees bloom in Wichita as well as Japan. The one above is the variety “Kwanzan,” which has large double flowers, not the single blossoms that constantly turn up in anime. It’s not as elegant, perhaps, but it is very eye-catching.
Given the frequency with which cherry blossoms occur in anime, one would assume that the trees are in bloom half the year. I doubt that’s the case.
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Astro says, “BTW your top ten is flawed because it doesn’t include AzuManga’s Yukari. Probably because she’s the best anime babe ever, and you were just trying to make it competitive. *astro shakes his tiny fist*”
Nobody mentioned her when nominations were open. I plan to start the third and last of the preliminary rounds of the Who’s the Babe? this weekend. Should I add Yukari to the candidates? And while I’m at it, should I also add Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, another possibility whom nobody nominated and I forgot about?
Update: the nays have it.
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Bonus nonsense: Subtitles — They’re not just for anime. (Via Dustbury.)
Light
First in a series
I visited Botanica this afternoon for the first time this year. Here are a couple of the things I found there.
Bluebells
Lenten rose (for Eve)
There’s more at my photo gallery.
Fall, winter, spring, winter, winter, winter …
I’ve lived in Wichita for the better part of my life, and I still don’t know what normal Kansas weather is. Does this look like spring to you?
That’s the view from my front porch this afternoon. Aside from a few patches of green at ground level, it looks like February, not April.
There are more hard freezes predicted for tonight and tomorrow. I wonder if this will be another year without lilacs. Here are pictures of the last few daffodils. They most likely will be gone Tuesday.
Continue reading “Fall, winter, spring, winter, winter, winter …”
Murdock Street bridge
On the way to Mass yesterday.
Springtime in Kansas
According to the weatherman, by this time tomorrow, there will be from seven to eleven inches of spring on the ground. It must be that anthropogenic caninogenic global warming.
(Via Irish Elk.)
Update: Gee, what a disappointment: only five inches of heavy wet spring weather. More photos below the fold
What’s in my camera?
More dance
I uploaded some more pictures from the March 5 rehearsal. The gallery is below the fold.
The macho swan
The spring dance concert this past weekend at Friends University featured mostly modern ballets, such as an excerpt from Matthew Bourne’s version of Swan Lake, above. The other works were also quite interesting. If they had been any more interesting, I’d have to label this post “NSFW.”
Spring has sprung
“February Gold,” which usually doesn’t bloom until March. I think this is the earliest I’ve ever seen it fully open.
Air power
Barry has a new t-shirt.
Wired moon
Another Nutcracker nearer the grave
Annual reminder
If it weren’t for the Second Amendment, the mice would win.
When your guest artist is late …
… you make do with whoever is available.
Just wondering
Does the RCBfA have any interest in ballet?
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I’ve got eight gigabytes of Nutcracker pictures to survey and edit. That’s roughly equivalent to 48 rolls of film. I might post about classical music for beginners later today or tomorrow, but otherwise don’t expect much activity here for a while.
A few more dance pictures
Paphiopedilum
I spent the afternoon at an orchid show and took a few pictures. More than a few, actually.
