double negative (mostly trivia and photos)

・ Finally less work and less headache, this past week was not fun. Oh right, two sets of taxes, writing and revising, other patiently waiting tasks...

・ Dealing with, for work reasons, a catalog of English-language books from the turn of the 20th century on horticulture and agriculture, I was surprised at how many of the eminent authors were women: Eleanor Anne Ormerod, Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Mary Evans Francis, Nina L. Marshall, Gertrude Jekyll, Julia Ellen Rogers, Phebe W. Humphreys, Mima Nixon... . I hope the all-male staff of the Japanese botanical garden in question found them illuminating.

・ In surprisingly unrelated news: it's getting to be time for new veranda plants! Ideas for what I should buy? I already have an impulse-bought sachi no ka strawberry plant, which may or may not make it through the spring; I will definitely aim for cherry tomatoes, habaneros, and red chilis, which have done well in the past. A little lemon tree or some other citrus? Green onions like Y wants? Flowers of some kind? Basil (so I can have basil races with A-Pei) or mint or other herbs? Criteria are plants that will be happy with daily watering and sheltering from typhoons, because I have a black thumb for anything more complicated.

・ ( More photos of plum blossoms and territorial cats )

Be safe and well.