Darkoshi

Yesterday was a very nice and breezy day. I sat on Qiao's back porch in the sun for quite a while, working on my laptop. Pollen cones kept falling on me and the laptop.

Later while I was working inside, I heard a loud sound through the open windows, like something metallic had fallen down. I thought the wind must have knocked something down. So I checked the front and back yards, and looked all around but didn't find anything. I finally decided that a falling pine cone must have hit the metal shroud over the chimney.

The rose bush is full of roses and looked beautiful in the late afternoon sunlight. I took photos.

Today when Qiao wanted to drive his car out of the garage, the garage door wasn't working. It would lift up a few inches, but that was all. We weren't able to manually lift it either. Then we noticed that one of the big springs had snapped apart, and that was why it wasn't working. We got a repair person to fix it.

So, that metallic sound I heard yesterday was actually the spring snapping apart! We have a cam in the garage which even caught it on video.

Now I'd like to include that video clip and a rose photo in this post, and also photos of purple pine pollen cones which I took last month (had never seen purple ones like those before!)
But it's too late. Maybe another time, maybe.