PHOTO-A-DAY CHALLENGE
Trooping the Colour? When’s my Walk?
June 2021 days
The fern (above) has long grown in one of the pots I have outside the front of my house. These colours usually indicate autumn to us, but this fern has it the other way around, and they indicate new growth with those wonderful russet hues.
I’m getting ahead of myself now — I have to get enough work done to cover a couple of weeks because I have a visitor coming to stay next week — my first since February 2020.
June 12th is the Trooping of the Colour — a ceremony that has marked the official birthday of the British Sovereign for over 260 years.
Doggo has something to say about this: ‘Trooping the colour around there, and then trooping the colour around here, and trooping the colour around there as well — what I wanna know is when’s my walk???’
Jack’s taken exception to the peonies next door. Maybe they’re too red, or too petally, or they’re looking at him funny. Whenever we come out of our front door, he feels obliged to tell them off.
Valerian is flowering in the gardens now — here’s a handy vista of white, pink and red valerian in one place. Jack didn’t bark at them — he must have approved of the colour scheme.
This is a wing mirror cover sitting on my front garden wall. This is a common sight around here because the streets are so narrow — they were originally laid out to cater for Victorian carriages and pedestrians, not socking great RVs and 4x4s two centuries later.
This leads to vehicles being parked on pavements so there is enough room for emergency vehicles and trash-trucks and other deliveries to get through — but then, of course, pedestrians, prams, wheelchairs, etc. are obstructed instead.
It also leads to wing mirror covers being knocked off by passing traffic.
A few years ago I planted a eucalyptus tree in a heavy pot.
I had in mind that putting it in a pot like that would sort of bonsai it a bit and prevent it from growing too big.
Well — that didn’t work!
Actually, this pic is a bit confusing — the eucalyptus is growing from the pot that’s on the ground, not the one on the wall — and the top of it is the highest thing you can see.
It’s a shame that the pic doesn’t show that all the new growth at the top is pink. It looks fab!
Anyway, I’m in a bit of a quandary about this tree, now. I like it, but it seems to mean to keep it in a pot. I can’t plant it out, though, because we’re very careful about what we plant for fear of disturbing the foundations of the houses. Several trees have had to be taken out completely in the time I’ve been here, having caused huge problems and then the householder having to underpin their house at vast expense. Yeah — I don’t fancy that!
The Photo-A-Day Challenge is a fab thing to do. It’s fascinating to see other people’s lives, from all around the world, illustrated through their pics.
Dennett started it in July 2020 and what a fab idea that was! Thank you, Dennett!
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