By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Readers, while photographing today, I was stepping back to get my subject properly framed when I felt my foot strike emptiness. Then I fell backwards onto a concrete walkway. While falling, I cradled the camera with my body, so that’s alright, but I sprained my lower back badly. Sitting at my desk is not on. So I am retiring to my bed with some actual painkillers from the drugstore. I should be back in form tomorrow. Meanwhile, this is an open thread. –lambert
Contact information for plants: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) here. From CG:
This is bee balm. Bee balm is one of my favorite flowers. Hummingbirds love it, and it’s invasive, so plant a little, get a lot. Bee balm also enables me to show of one of my very few bits of actual botanical knwowledge: Bee balm has a square stem, so it is in the mint family.
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