Silly trees

[j_cheney]

Horrible shot from my cell phone, at the park yesterday...

Yes, the fluffy is going on the pear trees, a sign that leaves are going to be arriving soon. Several of my shrubs at home have started leafing out as well, and a lot of the bulbs are coming up.

I went ahead and ordered by new caryopteris plants, since they won't be in stores until August or Sept (they don't want them there until they're blooming).

I spent a good deal of time last night working on some setting stuff in Saratoga Springs. Found a photo blog with modern pictures of the Adirondack Trust Building, Menges & Curtis Apothecary (the photog is associated with that store) and the house that I'm 'using' as Mother's Hawkes' town residence (the house is currently yellow, but I've chosen to re-imagine it as light blue). Great photos of the carriage house at that residence, too.

Not much has changed at Menges & Curtis in 100 years....the same tile, woodwork, scale. Amazing. What I haven't determined is whether the soda fountain was there in 1905 (on the left side of the store as one enters.) Not there now, BTW...

Comments

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

Research, research--sounds like fun.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that relatively little of our research ends up in the stories. I'm jsut using this as setting for a scene I'm adding....but I'll probably not describe that much of the drug store...

[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

Silly plants. Don't they know we'll have at least one more freeze before Spring? Silly plants.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

My point exactly...