incipience

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

today's high might have made it up to that 32°f freeze point.  or maybe it didn't.  either way, the wind didn't let up so it was colder than I would have liked though nowhere near as bad as yesterday's cut-to-the-bone superchilled cemetery wind. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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Oak Street

over the past few days I have been in a running shoot/discard/reshoot cycle involving this one boxwood.  it's an excellent specimen, taller than I am.  with these images I'm going to declare victory, however unearned, upload and move on. 

Buxus sempervirens^*

these incipient buds, though partly showing, are staying tightly -- and sensibly -- wrapped against snow, ice, wind and cold.  at some point when conditions are more favourable their development will continue.  until then I'm just going to have to wait. 

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*	ever mistrustful of my own taxonomical judgement, I'm hoping for a correction from florentinescot if needed.

Comments

[nienna-nineve.livejournal.com]

Everywhere I look, I'm seeing the same sort of thing around here — closed buds that seem poised to open the moment enough warmth seeps into the soil.

I'll look forward to more photos when the buds are open!

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

that seems so very far away when the cold, seasonal though it is, sets in like this.  but there is light, reliably clear this time of year, and I will make an effort to go out in it to see what may be revealed. 

however persistent the cold, the buds provide a reminder of what is to follow.