Two Weeks Since Last Human Contact

Ysarex · Apr 9, 2020

Two week ago today I had to finish up getting a crown fitted at the dentist. Since then it's been complete isolation and so I seem to be in the clear.

Today I worked in the garden and hoed a cabbage patch. Then I got 48 cabbages planted (seeds):

There was still plenty of day left so I grabbed my camera and went for a little walk. Headed out the ally and snapped a picture of tomato cage Mary:

Across the street the neighbor's dogwood has started to bloom:

And when I got home I snapped a picture of our nesting Robin. Back around March 16th we left town for a week and when we got home we found a nest had been constructed on top of our front porch light. We're trying hard not to bother the parents.

Joe

Original katomi · Apr 10, 2020

Got to ask what did Mary do to need a cage. Protected from something but what

Ysarex · Apr 10, 2020

Original katomi said:
Got to ask what did Mary do to need a cage. Protected from something but what

Poor Mary, seems she's been forgotten and neglected.

I live in St. Louis in the city's last intact original ethnic neighborhood. We're Italian. I had to add an "i" to the end of my last name. Italians are devote Catholics and Italian Catholicism is founded on devotion to Mary. Requisite to good standing in the neighborhood is the outdoor yard shrine to Mary. In my walks through the neighborhood I've photographed many hundreds of them, often quite elaborately commensurate with the home owner's demonstrative devotion and Italian purity.

Those of us less sincere and even fallen away Catholics still have at least a statue -- everybody has at least a statue -- it's often a built-in fixture of the house.

Unfortunately some people's devotion can lag at times, or worse it was just for show, and poor Mary get's neglected or worse.

Giuseppe

zulu42 · Apr 10, 2020

Enjoyable set!

K9Kirk · Apr 11, 2020

Nice set. My first impression was the cage was likely there to protect Mary from anyone getting careless with their yard work and accidentally bumping into her.