All over the place

Today's post is one of those rambling, no-point, all-over-the-place posts. Mainly some photos of stuff that I saw in my garden this morning that caught my eye. (Yes, it's one of the rare days when I snap photos in the morning and post them immediately.)

I've got a few days off from work coming up combined with a holiday weekend, so lots of planting will occur soon -- if it doesn't rain every single day like it's supposed to.

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I was really liking the way the light was hitting things this calm, wet morning. So I'll keep with the "calm" part of that and not write much here.

Ok, I just have to talk about the cicadas again. They're in their 6th day of emergence in St. Louis, and I'm starting to wonder when it will end. This post's title could refer to cicadas alone...

If you stand in the wrong place and stay too still, you look like a tree:

Ok, that's enough with the cicadas for now, except to say that when they're testing out their tymbals in short bursts it sounds alarmingly like a rattlesnake (as imagined by somebody like me who has never heard a rattlesnake in person). I dare you to not jump when you walk by a shrub and one makes its noise.

So back to the calming non-insect photos:

And that's it for this morning. Although the quiet of early mornings in the garden is one of the things I love most about having a garden, I suspect it won't be found for another few weeks due to noisy cicadas. I wonder if noise-cancelling headphones work on cicada calls?

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