#ColoraDay #RedWed Sometimes I wonder why, in a blue room, with 2 lights above it, when I look closely at a cool black cooktop surface I see 8 lights in a red surface. The kitchen contains mysteries far beyond "flip when [invisible] bottom is brown" and "season to taste, cook until done".

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekEforEphemeral Every banana has one perfect moment. The trick is to find it.

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekEforEphemeral This morning, I thought I'd clear the dust off of this white door. Now I think I'll try again this evening.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark Last night, I walked into a room with no lights on. X-Files was on the TV; I stopped to watch. The Smoking Man was in this one. My life might really be a song.

#ColoraDay #YellowThu

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #ColoraDay #BlueTue #AnimalArtTuesday This long-lost good dog still works just fine, after I got all the dust off. How did I let it get so lost for so long? I remember where I was & what responsibility I was shirking when I bought it so that sales clerk would relax.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #ColoraDay #BlueTue #AnimalArtTuesday When the room is dark and the bedside lamp is on, the peacock's shadow appears.

#ColoraDay #PinkMon Some of the small decorative birds hanging around in my house have had to migrate to safer spots. This cloisonne hummingbird now occupies an unused glass pitcher. It's not bothering anyone there and can probably stay long-term.

#ColoraDay #OrangeSun It's hot outside this afternoon. Time to move into the shade, away from the Sun.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves #ColoraDay #GreenSat

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves A globe is a handy round model of Earth that fits in my office. A friend was thinking of travel to the Galapagos Islands & wondering about the weather; this photo showed that Galapagos is under the tape that marks the globe's equator. That answered the question.

#ColoraDay #PinkMon Samples of last week's rain are still in the cups of Curcuma flowers in my garden today.

#ColoraDay #GreenSat I trimmed Caesalpinia branches yesterday and noticed that I could see 2 shades of green in the jumbled stack: the top surface, dark green & glossy, normally facing up toward the Sun; the underside, softer green, almost velvety, normally facing down toward the Earth.

#FoodOnFriday I had pizza for lunch today. Then I had to spend the afternoon contemplating the messages on the box.

#ColoraDay #YellowThu

#ColoraDay #RedWed

#AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind Garden work did not happen today. It didn't happen yesterday, either. Standing between me & the trees is heavy rain, with some thunder and now lightning. I'm not going out there. Maybe tomorrow.

#AnimalArtTuesday This wooden bench is in a shady spot, with a stone wall behind and a stone floor beneath, cool on a hot afternoon. I've sat there myself a few times, waiting for that office to open. The carving on the back is mysterious to me: maybe a large bird, or some mythical winged monster.

#ColoraDay #OrangeSun Bright colors create visual camouflage, as demonstrated by these orange flowers in a garden reflected in an orange truck parked nearby. Nothing beige can hide near a garden.

#ColoraDay #GreenSat The solar light in the birdbath changes color every few seconds; sometimes, the light is green. I don't know what causes the other small sparks of green light out there in the dark garden.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbandoned #ColoraDay #YellowThu

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbandoned #ColoraDay #YellowThu

#ColoraDay #RedWed Texas Star hibiscus (Hibiscus coccineus) has been growing in my garden for some years but this is the first year I see flowers. There will be many flowers, it seems.

#ColoraDay #OrangeSun I never had an orange toothbrush before. My dentist hands out a toothbrush after every visit; this time, somehow, it was my lucky day & I got an orange one. It seems super special.

#FoodonFriday Today's watermelon, chilling overnight, will be perfect tomorrow. I hope. Hot weather means cold food.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZany Why is this giant radio standing near a park bench? Maybe that's a good place to listen to music. The radio wasn't playing as I passed, and I was late to catch a bus so I didn't search around the radio for clues or explanations. July 2022, Jerusalem.

This is from what I still call the Archaeology Table, tho that's not what happened to it. Tools were left outdoors, rusting. I found them, stacked them on the table, left them there for years, under fallen oak leaves. Rust leaves marks. Oak leaves leave marks. I accidentally invented iron gall ink?

#ColoraDay #PinkMon In a nearby spiderweb, floating pink flowers are caught. Farther back, the flowers are on their tree: Lagerstroemia, crepe or crape myrtle, banaba, it has many names. Not from here, but they say it's been growing in the southern US since the 1780s, long enough to feel at home.