eanja's extemporanea

Note for HIK

eanja — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:51:52 GMT

Am posting this just in case you see it. Your letter from July 15 did not arrive till this past week, so there was for me to get it touch w/ you in writing before you came back to the States. I don't have a current email or phone number for you anymore, so didn't know how else to reach you on relatively short notice.

I don't know that I could make it down to see you at this point- it would have to be on Saturday before you left, and Pittsburgh is 10 hours from Boston, so that's pretty far. But if you see this, please drop me an email (you can use eanja @ livejournal . com if you don't remember the other one), in case something is still doable.

eanja — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:15:41 GMT

Double happy birthdays to majes and fishstickmarie!

May you both have a doubly good year!

Texas wildflowers

eanja — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:09:40 GMT

Here are the promised pictures of flowers I saw in Texas. This are all from more or less the Galveston area, and I have no idea what any of them are, and whether they are native wild-flowers, or escaped garden plants. If any of you happen to know, please tell me.

This first photo isn't a wildflower at all. The palm tree outside the hotel was blooming, and I've seen been in the right place at the right time to ever see that before, so just thought it was pretty neat.

These next two pictures are flowers that were growing on roadsides and in the unmowed lawn area where I was working around La Marque. The orange flowers are tiny things, at most the size of my pinky fingernail, but quite bright and pretty. The daisy shaped flowers are about the size you'd see for a fancy garden daisy or gazania. The blue flower you can see in the background of both looked like some tiny variety of vetch.

This giant yellow thing was growing in big patches along the roadside, looking amazingly bright as I drove by.

Slightly less bright were these, which look halfway between a poppy and a wild rose:

And finally, on the road to my next site I drove past immense numbers of these last flowers. The color in real life is even a little brighter than in these photos- the sun was just starting to go down, and they had an amazing day-glo appearance. Some were nearly all red, and other more pinky/yellow.