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June 30, 2024

Milkweed.

51 comments:

Money Manger said...: The flowers of the common milkweed are surprisingly fragrant.; 6/30/24, 12:04 PM
Mason G said...: Has anyone else noticed that, today, conserving energy means "not using it at all", when it used to mean "not wasting it"?; 6/30/24, 12:10 PM
Oligonicella said...: Rather miss my milkweed garden at the farm. I had around a dozen US species providing a nice variety of flowers.; 6/30/24, 12:50 PM
Rusty said...: Mason G
For me conserving energy means taking a nap.; 6/30/24, 12:51 PM
Big Mike said...: It can’t be milkweed. Where are the Monarch butterflies?; 6/30/24, 1:08 PM
Jerry said...: Mason G said...
Has anyone else noticed that, today, conserving energy means "not using it at all", when it used to mean "not wasting it"?

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Just trying to get us used to 'the new normal'.; 6/30/24, 1:34 PM
FullMoon said...: Blogger Big Mike said...

It can’t be milkweed. Where are the Monarch butterflies?
Once did some work at the home of a big, tattooed, long haired, bearded, ruffian gangster biker.

He had a variety of pretty flowers in his yard that attracted different types of butterflies.

Butterfly flower starter kit; 6/30/24, 2:47 PM
Lyle Sanford, RMT said...: I really like that pic and can't say why specifically. It just feels good - and restful.; 6/30/24, 2:58 PM
Humperdink said...: Power Line blog had a piece on Mark Halperin's site - the Wide World of News. It linked to an hour long video. Halperin had 17(??) experts commenting on the debate and the path forward.

A few were GOPe mouthpieces, but most were Commie-Pinkos. The GOPe contingent was all-in on Biden but after the debate debacle they can't vote for him. They hate Trump so they will not vote for him either.

Needless to say, the Lefties won't vote for Trump and are now befuddled. The line they kept repeating was that during the debate "Trump lied, Biden misstated". The Lefties are in turmoil. Made for a good laugh.; 6/30/24, 3:18 PM
Hassayamper said...: MORE MUSHROOMS PLEASE.

I have been very pleased by the many “Fungus of the Day” posts and hope they continue up until the snow flies.; 6/30/24, 3:53 PM
Iman said...: Milkweed… dickweed… Biden’s toast; 6/30/24, 4:13 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Biden withdrawing would be a threat to democracy.; 6/30/24, 4:31 PM
wendybar said...: Walter Shapiro
@MrWalterShapiro

What a perfect set of political priorities. They will treasure those portraits at home in Wilmington in 2025.

Katie Rogers
@katierogers
Camp David: Biden family spent morning not having a summit but in hair and makeup for a shoot with Annie Leibovitz, Vogue photog who shot Biden/Obama/Clinton in March then suggested doing something informal with the Bidens. Family suggested this week, bc Hunter & family in town.
1:49 PM · Jun 30, 2024; 6/30/24, 4:33 PM
Oligonicella said...: From the looks of the leaves, it's Asclepias purpurascens.

Money Manger:
The flowers of the common milkweed are surprisingly fragrant.

Here in SoMo, the Asclepias tuberosa (common orange milkweed) can still be found densely lining fence lines. Beautiful to see a 1/4 mile of the stuff. I had one plant with a root that was maybe 10" across and gave me 30-40 stems each year.; 6/30/24, 4:34 PM
Aggie said...: There is a family-run seed company in CO called Botanical Interests, and they have terrific high-quality seeds. Flowers, vegetables, herbs, cover crops, everything. And they also do seed mixes for prairie-type flower varieties, and also one for hummingbirds, one for butterflies and pollinators. They do well across a range of zones - I've had great success with them here in the blackland / post oak savanna areas of Texas.; 6/30/24, 4:56 PM
imTay said...: This small window of midsummer is the best. Fall is great, late summer is pretty awesome and I don't have to go Into how great May can be, but none of them are as magical and beautiful as this time right now, these few short weeks.; 6/30/24, 5:15 PM
imTay said...: Can anybody tell me what "far right" actually means, when they are the largest vote getter? Far to the right of... what?

Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party has taken the lead in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, initial projections showed, as President Emmanuel Macron’s party slumped to third place. Initial estimates by IPSOS put the RN bloc in first with 34% of the vote, ahead of the left-wing alliance in second with 28.1%, while Macron’s centrist coalition trails in a distant third with 20.3%

It looks like Le Pen will come close to a majority, but not get an absolute one, which gives the globalists a window to lock her out of power

That's what "far right" means, BTW, opposed to globalism.; 6/30/24, 5:24 PM
pacwest said...: R.I.P Joe Walsh.; 6/30/24, 5:57 PM
Quaestor said...: "Can anybody tell me what "far right" actually means..."

There's a second round of voting set for July 7. Nothing is firmly decided yet because the Fifth Republic is needlessly obtuse and tuned to help keep slim majorities in power.; 6/30/24, 6:07 PM
ceowens said...: Years ago Saltsman's Inn, Ephratah, NY, would serve milkweed as a side for a meal. Picked at the correct time in the Spring it tasted of mild asparagus. The hotel is not far from Stone Arabia.; 6/30/24, 6:26 PM
planetgeo said...: Thanks to Full Moon and Aggie for the great tips and sources for flower seeds. This is what makes this blog so special, and the night Cafes my favorite threads. Thanks, Ann.

So many seeds.; 6/30/24, 6:28 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: False
https://en.mediamass.net/people/joe-walsh/deathhoax.html; 6/30/24, 6:52 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I've seen maybe 3 butterflies this year. All were Black Monarchs. Very slow year hereabouts.; 6/30/24, 6:55 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Those seed sites look wonderful.
Thanks all.; 6/30/24, 7:04 PM
Saint Croix said...: Harris is a horrible boss, apparently, and she has been bleeding staff her entire career. I don't know if she's gotten better, but the turnover in her office was pretty wild.

"the most unpopular vice president in modern history"; 6/30/24, 7:12 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/30/24, 7:14 PM
Saint Croix said...: Another thing that makes her a bad candidate for Dems is that Biden put her in charge of stopping illegal immigration.

So that's a very obvious and public failure, and it happens to be Trump's favorite political topic.; 6/30/24, 7:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I missed the Pride Month post when it was fresh and new.

Here’s a young woman offering her opinion, which I find very refreshing like snaking at the operating room.; 6/30/24, 7:22 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Trump closed it, Biden re-opened it
You don’t have to be a baseball student
But I try to be, to know winning is for closers; 6/30/24, 7:27 PM
Oligonicella said...: ceowens:
Years ago Saltsman's Inn, Ephratah, NY, would serve milkweed as a side for a meal. Picked at the correct time in the Spring it tasted of mild asparagus.

Day Lilly as well. The pods fried in butter like you would snow peas.

or

Day Lily Fritters; 6/30/24, 7:30 PM
Saint Croix said...: The Reason Nato and Europe Found Biden's Debate Performance So Alarming; 6/30/24, 8:08 PM
Lucien said...: Regarding Biden I think some people are using the term “cogent” when they mean “lucid”, or maybe just “coherent”.; 6/30/24, 8:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: An American Scientist believes he has found a missing law of nature... and The Rule of Lemnity is not it.

I'm like Schrodinger's Cat, doomed to a superposition state, both funny and not funny.; 6/30/24, 8:47 PM
AlanKH said...: It is important that we have answers to questions that mean a great deal to the people around us. There is an aspect of Bragg v Trump (sic) I am struggling to understand. There are no felony charges without the misdemeanor falsification charges; the latter rest on the assumption that the records of the monthly payments to Cohen were inaccurate and intentionally so. The fact that Cohen billed Trump for an amount far greater than the amount of the NDA (not factoring in another project he had worked on) is *why* people believe the billing was fraudulent. I have considered several possibilities; the first two are not mutually exclusive:
- The prosecution's assertion, that Cohen believed the NDA was a campaign expense and tried to masquerade it as a legal expense.
- Cohen sought to hide from Trump either the NDA itself and/or the fact that he had paid for it, and tried to masquerade it as a legal expense.
- Cohen followed a lawful legal practice in padding his legal bill to account for taxes he would owe as a result of reporting the reimbursement for the NDA as income. I do not know if this is true; I need confirmation from someone who knows the law better than I do.; 6/30/24, 10:29 PM
wildswan said...: The leaves of milkweed are so big and clunky whereas the flowers from time they are buds till they are fantastic, dessicated forms against a white snow field are always delicately beautiful.; 6/30/24, 10:36 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: That missing law of nature video I posted above seeks to account for the apparent orderly nature of the milkweed in this post.; 7/1/24, 1:46 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Reddit: Omg. It’s not Joe, it’s Jill

Remember Commander? What did Commander know and when did he know it?; 7/1/24, 2:38 AM
wendybar said...: Joe Bidens mental health and EVERYTHING else about the Bidens is fair game, especially since they got together for their celebrity photo op with Annie Leibowitz and told the world Joe is staying to finish Husseins fundamental transformation of America into a shithole.; 7/1/24, 3:23 AM
wendybar said...: "Joe Biden doesn’t like Donald Trump, so Joe blew away Trump’s border control policies and we now have a disaster.
Joe Biden doesn’t like Donald Trump, so Joe blew away Trump’s energy independence policies and we now face an energy shortage.
Prices are 20% higher and interest rates more than doubled under Biden than under Trump.
With the high prices, high interests, and the influx of illegals, there is a housing crisis under Biden.
There is war in Europe under Biden, there was peace under Trump.
There is war in the Middle East under Biden. The Trump Abraham Accords, which promised Middle East peace, are on life-support and anti-Semitic violence rages throughout our country under Biden."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/an_affront_to_america.html; 7/1/24, 4:13 AM
wendybar said...: "This is the real hoax, a true insurrection. We have a PINO – President In Name Only, clearly with dementia, used as a prop while an unelected and unaccountable cabal are running the country, contrary to the will of the people or the Constitution.

To those perpetrating this charade, shame on you. Have more respect for your husband, father, friend, and colleague. And for America."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/biden_age_and_elder_abuse.html; 7/1/24, 4:18 AM
imTay said...: The media keeps telling us that Joe Biden has been a great president due to his accomplishments, but they never list them, probably because they are hugely unpopular with all by the affluent white left.

The media keeps telling us that Trump lied all through the debate, but they never give specifics, probably because all of his "lies" are either differences of opinion, or factually correct but misleading, because they would tend to make somebody not think that Joe Biden is the "greatest president ever" if people were to know about these things.

I thought that the first rule of writing was to "show, not tell," but they just tell us stuff we are supposed to believe, without ever bothering to show us that what they are telling us is true.; 7/1/24, 5:01 AM
Leland said...: The federal government has known since the Hur Report that Biden was incompetent to stand trial and therefore incompetent to run the government as President. AG Garland has suppressed that information from the American people. In the meantime, someone or many others are running the government without a constitutionally elected leader.; 7/1/24, 5:32 AM
mongo said...: Wendybar quoted an American Thinker piece that said,

"This is the real hoax, a true insurrection. We have a PINO – President In Name Only, clearly with dementia, used as a prop while an unelected and unaccountable cabal are running the country, contrary to the will of the people or the Constitution."

It drives me nuts to read something like this. The Federal government does not run the country. We the people do. That was the whole point of the Revolution.

On the other hand, change "running" to "ruining" and they have a point.; 7/1/24, 5:44 AM
Humperdink said...: Our beloved president had 16 of the finest democrat operatives prepping him for the recent debate. Based upon the results, it would appear the dems need to include our resident experts - Rich, Mutaman, Mark, Fredor, and LLR Chuck to advise Biden for the September* debate.

* Assumes Biden is not on life support.; 7/1/24, 5:49 AM
Breezy said...: Pelosi tried to list the supposed Trump lies yesterday. She was lying herself, of course. The “lies” she noted were that she was responsible for the national guard not showing up, that the 2020 election was fraudulent and that Ds are ok with late term and even post term abortion. (Maybe others there I’ve forgotten.) These “lies” can all be substantiated though - Nancy on video saying she was responsible, 2020 some states not following their election laws wrt mailin ballots, and Gov Northam video where he discusses the late/post term issue.

Figures they lie about the lying. She’s also all in on Biden staying in the race too of course.

I agree it’s ridiculous they never give examples when they make these claims. Proves they don’t have the meat imho. Plus, as I said yesterday, Jill et al hiding Biden decline should be the only lie we should be talking about.; 7/1/24, 5:50 AM
Breezy said...: Pelosi also claimed some healthcare professionals think Trump has dementia. She’s truly a piece of work.; 7/1/24, 5:54 AM
wendybar said...: "It drives me nuts to read something like this. The Federal government does not run the country. We the people do. That was the whole point of the Revolution."

That is the way it was set up, but can you really say the people are running the country with a straight face?? If we did, corrupt politicians would all be in prison, not making bucks off of insider trading and bribes from lobbyists.; 7/1/24, 5:59 AM
Humperdink said...: Just watched a clip from the weekend of Jill trying to amp up the crowd. Joe was standing beside her, mouth agape for the entire clip. This is what the media has tried to hide for 3 years.; 7/1/24, 6:02 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: The Washington State Dems passed a natural gas ban. Initiative 2066 has been gathering signatures to overturn that ban. They have 423,000 signatures today, with 325,000 required. Turn-in date is Friday, July 5th. The original target was 400,000, the new target is 500,000.

The 423,000 signatures will be turned in tomorrow, with a final turn in on the 5th.

The fascist/barbarian party won't know what hit them come Friday. They'll be smashed by a 200-car train.; 7/1/24, 9:24 AM
Achilles said...: Mark Robinson.

Should be acknowledged in the VP conversation.; 7/1/24, 10:55 AM
walter said...: Pedo Pete started his term by robotically signing EOs like they were autographs.
It was clear then that his brain was in neutral.; 7/1/24, 10:58 AM

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