Ike Aftermath
Oct. 2nd, 2008 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaSo, two things that have been weirding me out:
1) All the pear trees are blooming again. Yes, in October. Both the decorative Bradford pears and the actual fruit-bearing canning pears that people plant around here and then never harvest. The best I can guess is that they're having to regrow their leaves, after they lost so many in the storm, and they don't have a "grow new leaves" phase separate from their "bloom" phase. On the one hand, it's sort of pretty. On the other hand, they're supposed to be turning red any minute now, and the Bradfords are one of the few trees we have around here that actually do any sort of fall color (the others are the Chinese Tallows, which aren't native, are nasty and invasive, and fell the heck apart during the storm; and the sweet gums, which generally seem to have done okay, at least in this part of town).
2) This afternoon, we got slowed down on the way home by two debris trucks picking up downed limbs from the curbside in River Oaks. Now, for those of you playing along in other states, River Oaks is the swankiest district in town - not necessarily the richest, but the largest concentration of Old Money and nouveau megawealth in Houston. Their storm debris - and only the tree branches and trunks, mind; bagged leaves, downed fences, and other such stuff were still sitting on the sidewalk - was only just hauled off today. The people who have enough money to fly in clean-up crews from other countries only just got their storm trash picked up. That's really disturbing.
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Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for Movie Night. I realized I haven't watched this since my age was measurable in the single digits. It's subtext-tastic! Also, I hadn't remembered that "I have morons on my team!" came from this movie.
1) All the pear trees are blooming again. Yes, in October. Both the decorative Bradford pears and the actual fruit-bearing canning pears that people plant around here and then never harvest. The best I can guess is that they're having to regrow their leaves, after they lost so many in the storm, and they don't have a "grow new leaves" phase separate from their "bloom" phase. On the one hand, it's sort of pretty. On the other hand, they're supposed to be turning red any minute now, and the Bradfords are one of the few trees we have around here that actually do any sort of fall color (the others are the Chinese Tallows, which aren't native, are nasty and invasive, and fell the heck apart during the storm; and the sweet gums, which generally seem to have done okay, at least in this part of town).
2) This afternoon, we got slowed down on the way home by two debris trucks picking up downed limbs from the curbside in River Oaks. Now, for those of you playing along in other states, River Oaks is the swankiest district in town - not necessarily the richest, but the largest concentration of Old Money and nouveau megawealth in Houston. Their storm debris - and only the tree branches and trunks, mind; bagged leaves, downed fences, and other such stuff were still sitting on the sidewalk - was only just hauled off today. The people who have enough money to fly in clean-up crews from other countries only just got their storm trash picked up. That's really disturbing.
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Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for Movie Night. I realized I haven't watched this since my age was measurable in the single digits. It's subtext-tastic! Also, I hadn't remembered that "I have morons on my team!" came from this movie.
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Date: 2008-10-03 04:41 am (UTC)Trees
Date: 2008-10-04 06:20 pm (UTC)We see it all the time in early spring - a warm front comes in, everything starts blooming, only to wither and die at the next frost.
As long as we have a mild winter, I think all will be well.
Kris