By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Readers, I’m as much as my eyeballs within the muck of that horrid Cochrane research on masks, so all I can do is submit one picture of a plant. Tomorrow I can be again in kind. Discuss amongst yourselves! –lambert P.S. A minimum of certainly one of you has talked about a hen whose songs you want to hear. Please remind me in feedback!

Contact info for vegetation: Readers, be at liberty to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn how to ship me a verify if you’re allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn how to ship me photographs of vegetation. Greens are superb! Fungi and coral are deemed to be honorary vegetation! In order for you your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it initially of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize through the use of your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From JN:

JN writes: “Dogwood on ice.” Good framing; I’m meticulous about my edges and my corners. The place’s Blondie?

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