Skip to content

Random Connections

A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Photos
  • Resources
  • Other Voices
  • Post Archives
  • Home
  • Photography
  • Random Skagit – Volume 9, Yard Flowers and Non-Linear Time

Random Skagit – Volume 9, Yard Flowers and Non-Linear Time

Posted on June 29, 2018 By Tom No Comments on Random Skagit – Volume 9, Yard Flowers and Non-Linear Time
Photography, Washington Sabbatical

Yard Sweet Peas-001

Rampant racism, internment camps, Nazis holding rallies, and just this past weekend I saw WWII bombers flying overhead. Did I fall through some sort of wormhole into an alternate universe? Is “The Man in the High Castle” actually a documentary? Regardless, the whole space-time continuum seems to have decided to take a nap. I thought some pretty pictures of flowers might be comforting.

Time is flying past. Yesterday we made arrangements with U-Haul for the move back to South Carolina. It’s getting real. As far as this blog is concerned, it might be best to think of time as non-linear. I’m going to be jumping around quite a bit and writing posts as I get to them and not necessarily in the order in which they occurred. If you’re trying to piece together a narrative of my time in Washington, this might not be the places place to do that.

As for the WWII bombers, they were really here. The Collings Foundation brought their vintage warplanes to the Skagit County Airport for the weekend. They also come to Greenville every year and I’ve made trips to the airport to watch them arrive. I didn’t feel the need go see them, but I did have fun watching them fly over.

Even though I wasn’t headed to the airport, I grabbed my camera and long lens, hoping to get a shot of one flying overhead. For whatever reason, after the initial rush they didn’t fly over again, so I didn’t get a shot. So, I turned my attention to the yard in stead.

Laura had been having a blast this year growing flowers. There are sweat peas growing along the fence, ripe cherries on our trees, and other perennials in the yard. Here they area…

Yard Daisies
Yard Daisies-001
Yard Sweet Peas
Yard Cherries
Yard Daisies-002
Yard California Poppies
Yard California Poppies-001

I also managed to catch Rory with the long lens.

Rory

Speaking of cherries on our tree, we’ve shared with our neighbors and other…guests have been enjoying have been enjoying them. The game camera caught a raccoon clearing out our bird seed and deer helping themselves to the cherries.

[flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomconnections/28212371737]
[flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomconnections/29209250908]

Following the non-linearity of these posts, the next one jumps back a couple of weeks. Who knows? Perhaps the next one will be set a year from now.

Yard Sweet Peas-001

Post navigation

❮ Previous Post: Random Whatcom – Sparks and Ridges
Next Post: Paddling Lake Padden ❯

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Categories

  • EdTech (200)
  • Entertainment (202)
  • Family (121)
  • Gear (115)
  • General Technology (99)
  • Geocaching and Maps (208)
  • History and Genealogy (266)
  • Internet (144)
  • Local (451)
  • Miscellaneous (550)
  • Music (196)
  • Paddling (249)
  • Photography (779)
  • Podcast (6)
  • Rambling (227)
  • Rants (161)
  • Recipes (34)
  • Religion (48)
  • Restaurants (165)
  • Science (48)
  • Things Overheard (29)
  • Travel (411)
  • Uncategorized (129)
  • Washington Sabbatical (113)
  • Weirdness (60)

Recent Posts

  • A Bates Old River Two-fer
  • In Search of the Road Builder
  • The Phoenix Riots and Dr. Benjamin Mays – An MLK Day Ramble
  • An Obsession with Steak Knives
  • An Epiphany on Patriotism

Recent Comments

  • Jim Culley on An Obsession with Steak Knives
  • Tom on An Obsession with Steak Knives
  • Jim Culley on An Obsession with Steak Knives
  • Walter Kokoszka on Mysterious Mayucha and The Wolf Pit
  • Elizabeth on The Temple of Health: Ground-Truthing in Antreville

Tags

blogging cemetery Christmas Columbia Edisto River edtech Entertainment family Flickr Florida Furman Furman University gear Georgia geotagging Ghost Town Ghost Towns Google Earth Google Maps GPS Greenville Greenville Chorale history Instructional Technology kayaking Lake Jocassee LCU Lowcountry Unfiltered maps Music North Carolina Paddling Photography rambling restaurant Restaurants review singing social networking South Carolina time-lapse Travel video Washington Washington State
March 2023
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Jan    

Copyright © 2023 Random Connections.

Theme: Oceanly by ScriptsTown