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| PURPLE MEADOW RUE... |
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| ...FLOWER |
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| PASQUE FLOWER SEED HEAD |
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| A DARK, QUIET MORNING |
Friday, 7:15 AM. 65 degrees F, humidity 80%. Wind NE, calm. Dark, low rain clouds pervade the sky. The barometer predicts rain. It is very quiet except for the soft drum of raindrops on the skylights and the occasional growl of distant thunder somewhere out over the big lake. Bayfield is sleeping in. Buddy and I stayed close to home on our morning walk but got wet nonetheless.
Two related and interesting native plants are in the front yard garden. Purple meadow rue, Thalictrmum dasycarpum, is blooming. Pasque flower, Anemone patens, is through blooming, and is now bearing seed. Both are in the buttercup, AKA crowfoot family, the Ranunculaceae. The former is mostly a prairie and related habitat plant, the latter occupies wet meadows and stream banks. The blooms and the seed heads of both plants are quite beautiful and showy. Neither are very common in the wild but adapt well to garden cultivation.
It looks to me like Attorney General Holder is bound be thrown under the Administration bus before long; either that or be cited for contempt of Congress for lying while under oath. This guy missed his calling as a mob consigliore
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