The Week in Pictures

porchview

Both Kelly and I came down with colds this week. It takes superhuman effort on my part to string words together into sentences when I’m feeling well. With a cold I run an even greater risk of committing grave grammatical and punctuation errors. So rather than write, I decided to shuffle out of the house yesterday and take a few pictures. Above is the view from our front porch.

mallow

The Malva parviflora is back which means that we’ve had some rain this year. I take this as a hopeful sign even though we’re not out of the drought in Southern California.

little library

Our neighbor Jennie Cook (a guest on episode 50 of our podcast) put up a Little Free Library in her parkway a few years ago. It’s been a huge success. I’ve gotten rid of and acquired quite a few books and sometimes I just stroll down to look at what oddball things have shown up.

cactus

One street over a neighbor has a huge stand of this common cactus that I, sadly, don’t know the name of (if you do, please leave a comment).

succulents

A relative sent Kelly a get well bouquet of succulents that now lives on our front steps.

Once I stop swigging DayQuil, Root Simple will be back with our regularly scheduled programming.

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  1. Sorry you’re not well! I have that horrible Malva stuff ALL OVER MY YARD, and it’s a bitch to pull! The drought is officially over in Northern California, as demonstrated by the lake in my crawl space and the river in the back yard, and apparently, the Malva stuff everywhere.

    Is that actually a Euphorbia rather than a cactus? Does it bleed white, caustic sap? Euphorbs are from the old world, cactus is from the new. I could be wrong, but that has more the look of the Euphorbia to me …

    Feel better soon!

  2. Oh dear! Kelly doesn’t need to have a cold! I hope that this doesn’t cause her any problems. I hope that you both feel better soon.
    I have something similar to Malva parviflora in my yard in South Texas. I don’t worry about it, as I don’t worry about what grows in my yard (except my vegetable garden, and I keep in down there with mulch). I just cut it down. It only grows after a rain, and it dries up without water. I never water the yard–only the garden, trees, etc. with drip irrigation.

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