@blaineg That the UPS driver’s hand-held scanner thingie has a semi-working camera? That the UPS driver has never taken a photography course? Anyone have any other ideas?
@ItalianScallion@kuoh@Kyeh@sillyheathen Daphne is my favorite - we have a nice patch just off the front porch that smells wonderful in the late spring - I just wish it bloomed longer.
@ItalianScallion@kuoh@Kyeh@macromeh I try and have similar blooms that are fragrant through the year. I have wisteria, star jasmine, a few clematis that are really fragrant, honeysuckle and clarodendrum. It’s so lovely to walk outside and have that fragrance in the breeze.
@ItalianScallion@kuoh@Kyeh@sillyheathen Honeysuckle is my favorite - ours seems to bloom for most of the summer (still has some flowers). The wisteria actually blooms twice - once really heavy, then again by about 1/3 the amount, but I am not as fond of the scent.
@ItalianScallion@kuoh@macromeh@sillyheathen Same here! Spring is the best, with lilacs, hyacinths, iris, plum trees, daphne & mock orange - so intoxicating! Then the honeysuckle, which sadly this year has only bloomed once, and the linden tree and sweet woodruff. By midsummer though I don’t have many fragrant things blooming, especially when it’s as hot and dry as this year.
@ItalianScallion@kuoh@Kyeh@macromeh I feel you. We used to have the property fully irrigated but it was an overly complex and expensive system with 32 stations and HUNDREDS of rain heads. We decommissioned it a few years ago. I need to figure something out though for next year because it’s affecting fruit production and that lovely extension of the fragrant blooms.
delivery driver is just phoning it in today (or, likely, might be way overworked)
whatever tool they’re using for a camera sometimes has a really long delay taking a picture, and they haven’t noticed that yet
(My phone frequently has a long camera delay … and a long everything else delay. It bugs me, but not yet to the tune of the hundred[s] of dollars for a new phone.)
I don’t really want to get anyone in too much trouble — especially service personnel — but I think the non-proof pictures are worse than no picture at all. UPS [and the others] should find some incentive to make sure they’re useful pictures (even if blurry).
@blaineg That the UPS driver’s hand-held scanner thingie has a semi-working camera? That the UPS driver has never taken a photography course? Anyone have any other ideas?
We see these all the time, and I’ve been so tempted to collect them for an art show.
Here’s another!
Nice shoe, dude.
@Kyeh Either the sidewalk needs raking or the shrubbery needs trimming.
KuoH
@kuoh @Kyeh
“Bring me a… shrubbery! One that looks nice… and not too expensive.”
@kuoh Excuuuuse me! It’s not my highest priority. And it wasn’t blocking his view of the front stoop where the package was.
@ItalianScallion @kuoh
This particular shrubbery is a Daphne bush and its fragrance in the spring is heavenly!
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @Kyeh I love Daphne! She’s the signal of spring here. The fragrance is intoxicating!
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @Kyeh @sillyheathen Daphne is my favorite - we have a nice patch just off the front porch that smells wonderful in the late spring - I just wish it bloomed longer.
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @Kyeh @macromeh I try and have similar blooms that are fragrant through the year. I have wisteria, star jasmine, a few clematis that are really fragrant, honeysuckle and clarodendrum. It’s so lovely to walk outside and have that fragrance in the breeze.
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @Kyeh @sillyheathen Honeysuckle is my favorite - ours seems to bloom for most of the summer (still has some flowers). The wisteria actually blooms twice - once really heavy, then again by about 1/3 the amount, but I am not as fond of the scent.
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @macromeh @sillyheathen Same here! Spring is the best, with lilacs, hyacinths, iris, plum trees, daphne & mock orange - so intoxicating! Then the honeysuckle, which sadly this year has only bloomed once, and the linden tree and sweet woodruff. By midsummer though I don’t have many fragrant things blooming, especially when it’s as hot and dry as this year.
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @Kyeh @macromeh @sillyheathen
Lilac smells like carburetor or brake cleaner to me.
@ItalianScallion @kittykat9180 @kuoh @macromeh @sillyheathen That’s very sad.
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @Kyeh @macromeh I feel you. We used to have the property fully irrigated but it was an overly complex and expensive system with 32 stations and HUNDREDS of rain heads. We decommissioned it a few years ago. I need to figure something out though for next year because it’s affecting fruit production and that lovely extension of the fragrant blooms.
It proves you have a large and well watered lawn.
KuoH
@kuoh Fortunately it’s blurry enough to hide the dead patch.
We must have the same UPS delivery guy
Here’s one in focus!
All the blurry pictures look like they belong in a found footage movie, that’s how bad they are.
For serious guesses, I’m picking one of
(My phone frequently has a long camera delay … and a long everything else delay. It bugs me, but not yet to the tune of the hundred[s] of dollars for a new phone.)
I don’t really want to get anyone in too much trouble — especially service personnel — but I think the non-proof pictures are worse than no picture at all. UPS [and the others] should find some incentive to make sure they’re useful pictures (even if blurry).