Planting

I planted some marigolds in front of my building this afternoon. They're bright and colorful, and I hope sufficiently tough.

This is the first gardening I've done in a couple of years. Last spring, that (and quite a bit else) was eaten by the gall bladder surgery, and for a couple of years any fall bulb planting got put off until it was too late.

After planting, and coming upstairs and showering, I went back out and took a few photos. I may try for better photos later, but I wanted to get some right away. (It's obvious from the photos that these are just-planted.)

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Planting

I planted some marigolds in front of my building this afternoon. They're bright and colorful, and I hope sufficiently tough.

This is the first gardening I've done in a couple of years. Last spring, that (and quite a bit else) was eaten by the gall bladder surgery, and for a couple of years any fall bulb planting got put off until it was too late.

After planting, and coming upstairs and showering, I went back out and took a few photos. I may try for better photos later, but I wanted to get some right away. (It's obvious from the photos that these are just-planted.)

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Marigolds

I planted some marigolds in front of my building this afternoon. They're bright and colorful, and I hope sufficiently tough.

This is the first gardening I've done in a couple of years. Last spring, that (and quite a bit else) was eaten by the gall bladder surgery, and for a couple of years any fall bulb planting got put off until it was too late.

After planting, and coming upstairs and showering, I went back out and took a few photos. I may try for better photos later, but I wanted to get some right away. (It's obvious from the photos that these are just-planted.)

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Note: This is a cross-post from my LJ account, and I suspect the images shouldn't work on Dreamwidth. I can't tell if I'm seeing them because they're cached or because LJ's software isn't set up to block Scrapbook image requests from offsite. I also put two of them on Flickr. If you're reading this here and haven't looked at it on LJ, please let me know whether you see images or only the alt tags.

AKICILJ: travel to Wiscon

Has anyone here flown via Milwaukee (the actual flight is New York City to Madison, and I'll be flying out of either EWR or LGA, and preferably back through LGA)? I am mostly wondering what that airport is like, and looking for recent experiences of flying on Midwest. Also, is there still reasonably regular bus service from Milwaukee to Madison?

The latter is relevant because connecting flights are sometimes cancelled (weather, hardware, acts of Ghu); when that happened at O'Hare I took a three-hour bus trip to get to Madison, and when it happened in Detroit I had to wait and get rebooked several hours later.

(This would be for, probably, May 21 to Madison, May 25 return, in case that's relevant.)

AKICILJ: travel to Wiscon

Has anyone here flown via Milwaukee (the actual route is New York City to Madison, and I'll be flying out of either EWR or LGA, and preferably back through LGA)? I am mostly wondering what that airport is like, and looking for recent experiences of flying on Midwest. Also, is there still reasonably regular bus service from Milwaukee to Madison?

The latter is relevant because connecting flights are sometimes cancelled (weather, hardware, acts of Ghu); when that happened at O'Hare I took a three-hour bus trip to get to Madison, and when it happened in Detroit I had to wait and get rebooked several hours later.

(This would be for, probably, May 21 to Madison, May 25 return, in case that's relevant.)

AKICILJ: travel to Wiscon

Has anyone here flown via Milwaukee (the actual route is New York City to Madison, and I'll be flying out of either EWR or LGA, and preferably back through LGA)? I am mostly wondering what that airport is like, and looking for recent experiences of flying on Midwest. Also, is there still reasonably regular bus service from Milwaukee to Madison?

The latter is relevant because connecting flights are sometimes cancelled (weather, hardware, acts of Ghu); when that happened at O'Hare I took a three-hour bus trip to get to Madison, and when it happened in Detroit I had to wait and get rebooked several hours later.

(This would be for, probably, May 21 to Madison, May 25 return, in case that's relevant.)