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#FoliageFriday

Although I've always loved the beautiful foliage of #JapaneseBarberry shrubs, we've avoided adding any to our own gardens. They're highly invasive if not heavily controlled. Japanese barberry provides prime environments for #ticks to breed due to the high humidity in barberry's dense foliage. It's believed that spread of barberry is correlated with the spread of #LymeDisease.

I really wish stores/nurseries that sell plants would inform customers on problematic ones so folks can make more informed decisions. Many uninformed customers often buy Japanese barberry shrubs because they're deer resistant & visually appealing. I suggest avoiding it. It's been banned for sale in some USA states.
Just admire the shrubs in public cultivated gardens - don't grow them.

Good morning. ☕☕☕

16 July 2025

The coffee’s bitter this morning—two days of rich Savannah Coffee Roasters brew now replaced by Folgers. Yesterday, my wife, daughter, and three granddaughters went shopping, an outing my granddaughters had been buzzing about. Meanwhile, the guys and I stayed home, though we had our own mini adventure. We swung by Savannah Coffee Roasters, where I picked up three small bags of beans, priced for tourists. The whole stop took five minutes… maybe ten. Afterwards, we had lunch at The Flying Monk, a noodle joint serving dishes from around the world, mostly Asian. I ordered ramen—my go-to comfort food. This time, I just wanted some that hadn’t come out of a packet. It was excellent. Later, I found myself quietly jealous—the ladies stopped at the Peach Cobbler Factory, and I missed out on the sweet finale. 😢

“Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.” – David Chang

"Laird Norton Trail Laudholm Farm Preserve"
By Scott Loring Davis, Fine Art Photography
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This beautiful print offers a calming, serene and relaxing feel to any room and is especially suitable for hospitals, medical practices, law practices and any other public location where a calming effect is beneficial. FULL DESCRPTION- pixels.com/featured/laird-nort

Wow, what a wonderfully random #statue you may think. This is #Krodo, a Germanic god of the Saxons who is depicted with a fish (water/food), a sun cross (time), clothes blowing in the wind (wind/air), and a bucket of roses (love/fertility). Nobody knows if he was a real god or just a legend picked up by a 15th century chronicle (the author failed to mention any sources and contemporaries already had their doubts). Today's historians think it may be a fake, but the town of #BadHarzburg still uses him as a mascot. This statue can be found at #Harzburg castle.


#StatuenSamstag #StatueSaturday #FootpathFriday #foliage #Brücke #bridge #Harz

"Deep Woods Mystique"
By Scott Loring Davis, Fine Art Photography
pixels.com/profiles/scottlorin
This beautiful print offers a calming, serene and relaxing feel to any room and is especially suitable for hospitals, medical practices, law practices and any other public location where a calming effect is beneficial. FULL DESCRPTION pixels.com/featured/deep-woods

The Tallow Tangle

This is a photograph of new leaves on a Chinese tallow. Shaped somewhat like rounded diamonds, they display a lively mix of green, yellow, and red. In contrast, the background leaves appear muted—a dull grayish green. Though they’re a vibrant green in nature, I’ve adjusted the color properties slightly here for effect.

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