Woody and Buzz Lightyear Spotted Hanging Around the Neighbourhood

Also, red hot pokers AND lemon cool pokers!

Red hot pokers! Very suitable flower for this ravingly hot August we’re living through!

I was admiring someone’s red hot pokers (header picture) when I spotted someone else’s lemon red hot pokers (above) — or should that be, their lemon cool pokers?

I had to use the red arrow to point them out because they were down this person’s drive and I didn’t have the nerve to actually trespass on their land to get a closer picture.

PupperJack spotted these two characters trying to get into a parked van. He let the neighbourhood know what he thought about that.

But surely, Woody and Buzz Lightyear weren’t just hanging around with ill intent, as PupperJack first thought.

I wondered if they were the equivalent of one of those little black strips you see hanging down from the back of a vehicle, touching the road to prevent static electricity from building up on the car body.

Apparently, these strips don’t work — you’ll still get shocks when opening the doors, you’ll still get car-sickness — but I still see them about quite often.

Anyway — either Woody and Buzz Lightyear are up to no good, or they’re mimicking a part of Toy Story that I don’t remember, or they’re supposed to be discharging static.

OR — maybe they were kidnapped! And they’re trying to get out of the van, not in!!!

A very handsome bed of agapanthus thriving in the centre of the city.

Artichokes (above left) — a giant in an urban front garden, but such an architectural plant that it forms a perfect feature.

Growing up the fence around the little private park is this honeysuckle which is at the stage of having flowers and berries at the same time. Honeysuckle berries are poisonous. (They look so tempting …)

Someone’s holly hedge is being overtaken by a marrow plant. Not a common sight in a city front garden, and I’ll be interested to see how far it gets.

There are promising bumper harvests around the neighbourhood — above is a very heavily laden plum tree, and a teeny-tiny-apple harvest waiting for full ripeness.

Of course, when they are fully ripe and start dropping onto the pavement beneath, pedestrians will curse them …

I asked PupperJack a couple of times what he thought of how things were going so far this month. He wagged his tail to show me I’m not being ignored, but he reckons it’s way too hot to actually say anything.

I’m inclined to agree. It’s way too hot.

I start thinking about Christmas designs in April. And I did start thinking about Christmas designs in April, but, due to one thing and another, I’ve only just started painting them. This is my first one for this year — ‘Sledge Pals’.

But — it is still August. A very hot August, too, so this doggo, giving lessons on how to relax on the beach, seemed a suitable subject, too.

See you next time!

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