Mobi366 Ubbyisis’ Project 366 - 2020

[ubbyisis]

Day 111 - April 20th - Spring in progress

These are the most common early spring flowers here. The coltsfoot comes first. I saw the first one in February. In late March we get the blue anemone hepatica and the white anemone nemorosa comes in April. The coltsfoots are beginning to fade away now. Still lots and lots of hepaticas, but soon the nemorosas will take over, especially as the coming days will be much warmer.

 

[ubbyisis]

Day 112 - April 21st - The spiders are extremely busy these days

Tiny cobwebs everywhere since a week ago. I even get tiny threads in my face when I’m out on my walks - I really don’t get how on earth there can be webs in the middle of the road Must be thousands and thousand of spiders working like maniacs right now. Strangely I haven’t seen a single spider - perhaps they are super tiny

Camera+ 2 - macro mode

 

[ubbyisis]

Day 113 - April 22nd - Yellow

Our forsythia edited with iColorama

 

[ubbyisis]

Day 114 - April 23rd - More yellow

I know that most people see them as evil weed, but I love dandelions and I don’t care if they invade our garden

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[JillyG]

Day 114 - April 23rd - More yellow

I know that most people see them as evil weed, but I love dandelions and I don’t care if they invade our garden

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And the insects love them. Hooray for the humble Dandelion!!

 

[sinnerjohn]

Day 114 - April 23rd - More yellow

I know that most people see them as evil weed, but I love dandelions and I don’t care if they invade our garden

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Oh I grow these all the time in my garden, I'm quite the expert

 

[Starzee]

Day 114 - April 23rd - More yellow

I know that most people see them as evil weed, but I love dandelions and I don’t care if they invade our garden

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I have a dandelion tattoo with a quote from Eeyore, “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

 

[ubbyisis]

And the insects love them. Hooray for the humble Dandelion!!

Oh I grow these all the time in my garden, I'm quite the expert

I have a dandelion tattoo with a quote from Eeyore, “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

Thank you dear members of the Dandelion Fan Club As times are bad I think you deserve a fun true story from my childhood years. It’s about weed in double sense. I think me and my best friend were about 8 years old. If that’s correct we’re talking 1967. We had heard that you couldsmoke dandelion stems. So we filled a stem with normal innocent grass and lit a match and ... well, absolutely nothing happened

 

[JillyG]

Thank you dear members of the Dandelion Fan Club As times are bad I think you deserve a fun true story from my childhood years. It’s about weed in double sense. I think me and my best friend were about 8 years old. If that’s correct we’re talking 1967. We had heard that you couldsmoke dandelion stems. So we filled a stem with normal innocent grass and lit a match and ... well, absolutely nothing happened

I did the same with straw. I got very smokey.

 

[ubbyisis]

I did the same with straw. I got very smokey.

We’re the kids from the Flower Power era

 

[JillyG]

We’re the kids from the Flower Power era

Yes. I even wrote “Make Love Not War” on a peach-coloured handbag I had when I was nine. I couldn’t understand why my mother confiscated it!!!

 

[ubbyisis]

Yes. I even wrote “Make Love Not War” on a peach-coloured handbag I had when I was nine. I couldn’t understand why my mother confiscated it!!!

Brown and peach were the colours of my room

 

[Starzee]

Thank you dear members of the Dandelion Fan Club As times are bad I think you deserve a fun true story from my childhood years. It’s about weed in double sense. I think me and my best friend were about 8 years old. If that’s correct we’re talking 1967. We had heard that you couldsmoke dandelion stems. So we filled a stem with normal innocent grass and lit a match and ... well, absolutely nothing happened

My friend and I made dandelion wine when we were sixteen, the early ‘70s. We were supposed to pick 7 quarts, but had no idea how much a quart was so wound up with 14. Rather waste all those dandelions, we double the batch. When it was done we had a great unvexiling....we thought it tasted like kerosene, nothing like the Anne Greensprings apple wine (cheap) we were accustomed to. Fortunately my dad and his friend both liked it and paid us $2 a bottle. Times were different then.......

 

[ubbyisis]

My friend and I made dandelion wine when we were sixteen, the early ‘70s. We were supposed to pick 7 quarts, but had no idea how much a quart was so wound up with 14. Rather waste all those dandelions, we double the batch. When it was done we had a great unvexiling....we thought it tasted like kerosene, nothing like the Anne Greensprings apple wine (cheap) we were accustomed to. Fortunately my dad and his friend both liked it and paid us $2 a bottle. Times were different then.......

One of the first years out here we made a batch of dandelion wine. Just as you and your friend we didn’t like it and quickly returned to Spanish red Oh, those were the days my friend(s)

 

[sinnerjohn]

Dandelion wine sounds very poetic though.

 

[ubbyisis]

Day 115 - April 24th - Coming towards me from the north

After three days of almost summerlike weather we’re expecting normal cold and cloudy weather. Still quite sunny, but the clouds are approaching at high speed. Photo taken two hours ago outside the house looking north. ProCamera app in HDR Dramatic mode. Removed the compost bin and other disturbing objects with Touch Retouch (why do we still call the app Touch Retouch by the way - I believe the changed the name to just retouch quite a while ago)
P.S. Perhaps I should have removed the trash bin too, but now it’s there and makes the photo more realistic

original:

 

[RoseCat]

Day 114 - April 23rd - More yellow

I know that most people see them as evil weed, but I love dandelions and I don’t care if they invade our garden

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I love them. I picked a bouquet on my walk the other day... sadly they only lasted a couple days in a vase.

 

[RoseCat]

I have a dandelion tattoo with a quote from Eeyore, “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

Um..... —————> https://mobitog.com/threads/mobitattoos-lets-see-yours.8129/

 

[RoseCat]

My friend and I made dandelion wine when we were sixteen, the early ‘70s. We were supposed to pick 7 quarts, but had no idea how much a quart was so wound up with 14. Rather waste all those dandelions, we double the batch. When it was done we had a great unvexiling....we thought it tasted like kerosene, nothing like the Anne Greensprings apple wine (cheap) we were accustomed to. Fortunately my dad and his friend both liked it and paid us $2 a bottle. Times were different then.......

Haha!!!! <high-five>
And oh man.... I remember Annie Greensprings!!!!!

 

[RoseCat]

Day 115 - April 24th - Coming towards me from the north

After three days of almost summerlike weather we’re expecting normal cold and cloudy weather. Still quite sunny, but the clouds are approaching at high speed. Photo taken two hours ago outside the house looking north. ProCamera app in HDR Dramatic mode. Removed the compost bin and other disturbing objects with Touch Retouch (why do we still call the app Touch Retouch by the way - I believe the changed the name to just retouch quite a while ago)
P.S. Perhaps I should have removed the trash bin too, but now it’s there and makes the photo more realistic

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Beautiful sky.

Touch Retouch (why do we still call the app Touch Retouch by the way - I believe the changed the name to just retouch quite a while ago)

I do the same... habit!

 

[Starzee]

Um..... —————> https://mobitog.com/threads/mobitattoos-lets-see-yours.8129/

Er, ah, well okay. It might take a while. I. Have to hay shave my legs.

 

[Starzee]

Haha!!!! <high-five>
And oh man.... I remember Annie Greensprings!!!!!

I may have been a “regional wine”, NYS only!

 

[ubbyisis]

Day 116 - April 25th - Blue

Much colder today. And I have destroyed my poor feet again with excessive walking the last few weeks. Just a short walk today. The season for the anemone hepatica is almost over, but I was lucky to find these that were partly sheltered under some twigs. Edited in iColorama and Retouch

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before DH removed the twigs:

 

[zenjenny]

I have a dandelion tattoo with a quote from Eeyore, “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

all those words had to have hurt

 

[zenjenny]

Day 112 - April 21st - The spiders are extremely busy these days

Tiny cobwebs everywhere since a week ago. I even get tiny threads in my face when I’m out on my walks - I really don’t get how on earth there can be webs in the middle of the road Must be thousands and thousand of spiders working like maniacs right now. Strangely I haven’t seen a single spider - perhaps they are super tiny

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Day 113 - April 22nd - Yellow

Our forsythia edited with iColorama

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Day 114 - April 23rd - More yellow

I know that most people see them as evil weed, but I love dandelions and I don’t care if they invade our garden

Snapseed

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Day 116 - April 25th - Blue

Much colder today. And I have destroyed my poor feet again with excessive walking the last few weeks. Just a short walk today. The season for the anemone hepatica is almost over, but I was lucky to find these that were partly sheltered under some twigs. Edited in iColorama and Retouch

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before DH removed the twigs:
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your spring is so beautiful . . .