One of the oddities of the current situation, with so much shut down and us having had to stay home for most of the past month, is that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude and I have been eating more salad than usual. I keep thinking lettuce and other salad greens are going to be difficult to get, so asking for some every time we're getting an order of groceries. And so far the supply is holding out, and while we have the greens salad is a very easy thing to have as part of a meal.
Meanwhile, I have a cabinet full of beans, rice, chocolate, broth, flatbread, canned soup, and so on, which we haven't been using that much of (except the chocolate!). Fortunately, part of why these are the things we stocked up on is that they do keep: I can buy rice in February and eat it in April or June. I also have lots of spices, herbs, and seasoning blends, and what is probably a couple of years' supply of vanilla extract, at the rate I go through it.
The maple trees in our neighborhood, including one right in front of the house, are blooming, which pleases me every year. I had forgotten what kind of tree is in front of the house--it's easy to overlook sidewalk trees, or think mostly of how much the root has buckled the sidewalk. We'll have a week or two of that particular shade of green that Norway maples are, and then leaves a slightly more intense and less yellow green, blocking out more of the sky and they grow.
(Having tagged this "phenology" I will note that the neigborhood forsythias are still bright yellow, before the leaves come in, and I still have one crocus in my front yard, but the rhododendrons are starting to bloom, an intense magenta, and there are violets growing in lawns and sidewalk cracks.
cattitude and I have been eating more salad than usual. I keep thinking lettuce and other salad greens are going to be difficult to get, so asking for some every time we're getting an order of groceries. And so far the supply is holding out, and while we have the greens salad is a very easy thing to have as part of a meal.Meanwhile, I have a cabinet full of beans, rice, chocolate, broth, flatbread, canned soup, and so on, which we haven't been using that much of (except the chocolate!). Fortunately, part of why these are the things we stocked up on is that they do keep: I can buy rice in February and eat it in April or June. I also have lots of spices, herbs, and seasoning blends, and what is probably a couple of years' supply of vanilla extract, at the rate I go through it.
The maple trees in our neighborhood, including one right in front of the house, are blooming, which pleases me every year. I had forgotten what kind of tree is in front of the house--it's easy to overlook sidewalk trees, or think mostly of how much the root has buckled the sidewalk. We'll have a week or two of that particular shade of green that Norway maples are, and then leaves a slightly more intense and less yellow green, blocking out more of the sky and they grow.
(Having tagged this "phenology" I will note that the neigborhood forsythias are still bright yellow, before the leaves come in, and I still have one crocus in my front yard, but the rhododendrons are starting to bloom, an intense magenta, and there are violets growing in lawns and sidewalk cracks.
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