I am on my way, and my first stop is in Ypsilanti where I am spending the night with friend, Cindy. Wow! The last time I saw her was 2018. That's crazy. We are featuring the butterscotch chocolate chip cake she made for dessert.
After dinner, we took a walk around the block. It was just the right length. One garden had these huge pink hibiscus. The flower is almost a foot across.
We walked through a friend's garden on the way. He must spend a huge amount of time working on this. It's a lovely mix of perennials and annuals.
I even got to learn something new. I did not recognize these seed pods. It's Clethra, sweet pepperbush or summersweet, probably Clethra alnifolia, a plant I did know, because it's a native wetland shrub. But I'd never seen it at this stage. A wetland site I worked on once planted some of these for landscaping becauase if you picture flower clusters where those pods are you will realize that it has long spikes of fluffy flowers. Really a beautiful shrub, and native. But, for some reason, they weren't happy, and they died, so I never saw the seed pods. Now I know!
In other news, the last job I did before leaving home was to trim the birch tree and clean the gutter. It's really not a hard job, but I kept putting it off.
Cindy and I will have most of the morning together, and then I'll be off on the next stage of the journey.
 | See A Day with Cindy |
1 comment:
That cake sure looks good and the garden is beautiful.
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