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| NICE MORNING |
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| NEW PLANTS ADD SOME COLOR... |
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| DITTO |
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| "NATURALISTIC" MUST BE MY STYLE |
Sunday, 9:00 AM. 72 degrees F, 72% humidity. The wind is NW, calm at present. The sky is partly overcast and the barometer predicts rain, but I think no time soon,.
The perennials we brought home from Northwoods Nursery are all planted and I must say things look better, or at least more interesting. I still need to do more weeding, put down mulch, and cut back some overgrown plants, but when all that’s done the perennial garden will be greatly improved. Things still look rather shaggy. I guess "naturalistic" is just my style. I still have not planted the shrubs, which will get done today.
The grass on the grading and seeding job on 6th street is finally germinating and starting to look like something, but it will take another week of growth before success will be obvious. In the meantime I am watering several times a day and monitoring the job closely.
Joan and I will walk around the art show later, and also go to Washburn for the car show that is part of Washburn’s Brownstone Days, this weekend;s celebration of its cultural and architectural history. Washburn has a number of historic structures dating to the time of quarrying the native brownstone (a hard sandstone) from the lake shore cliffs and the Islands. Brownstone was shipped to Milwaukee, Chicago and other Great Lakes cities. It was a big business from the late Nineteenth Century until the earl 1920’s, when the Brownstone lost out to other building materials.
Now environmental laws prohibit its quarrying (go figure). No mining, no quarrying, no pipelines, no power plants,,, Nine, Alles Verboten!…be wealthy and drive your hybrid Lexus up from the big city, or be poor and on welfare. Oops, sorry, it is Sunday, after all.
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