Item #1: Harvest continues 
Copra and Redwing. An onion is fully mature when the top falls over.
All but a few of the bronze-colored Copra are now drying under shade. Just a few of the Redwings are ready. I’ve another red one called Red Zeppelin. Except for 2 or 3, they are still standing proudly under our intense sun.
Item #2: More things growing
Wikipedia claims: “In 399 BC, Socrates went on trial and was subsequently found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of impiety {not believing in the gods of the state}, and as a punishment sentenced to death, caused by the drinking of a mixture containing poison hemlock.”
The photo on the left (below) is a plant called Water Hemlock. It is close to the one mentioned in the quote above and considered the most poisonous plant in North America. Lucky us, we have some, now in bloom.
I find this plant along the sides of the irrigation ditch. The term “hemlock” is also applied to a tree, and apparently the commonality is the smell of the leaves, something I do not intend to confirm. Ours is called Cicuta douglasii, the western water hemlock. One of its distinctive characteristics is shown in the photo below. Follow the red pointer into the leaf notch. 
The leaf veins go to the notch, not to the point or tip. This is unique to this member of the family (Apiaceae), and apparently many other plants. See the maple leaf here: to the tips
The chemical glyphosate (sold as Roundup herbicide) will kill the plant. I sprayed one about 2 weeks ago, but found this one a few days later. I’ve let it bloom – now I need to send it back to Mother Earth.
The top image, right side, shows little tomatoes behind a fence. Some folks have claimed toxicity of tomatoes, but for humans the danger is slight – even the green parts or green fruit.
So, work to do: kill the hemlock and harvest the red tomatoes.
Item #3: OHIO
My sister lives close to a wooded area that drains into the Cuyahoga River, about 7 miles east. Cuyahoga Valley National park is there.
Between 18,000 and 14,000 years ago the Wisconsinan Glacier entered and then melted from the region, draining into Lake Erie, and leaving deposits of various sorts, and disrupted drainage.
If it were not for all the people this would be a great place for wildlife. Still there are many things that visit her street, such as deer and rabbits.
She sent this photo of an unidentified being, while hoping it soon returned to the swamp. Noisy critter.
Being crazy Ohio, we think it is a politician escaped from jail.
Item #4: Pineapples to Celery
As a kid, I was surprised when first seeing the spelling of celery.
I’m still a bad speller, or my preference – good at spelling badly.
The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple The last line of this is simply the word Celery.
I found this pineapple story interesting and completely unknown to me. It is quite long with many photos.
Item #5: best photo seen this week
There are several sites I check on a regular basis. Photos, headlines, and odd stories can offset the sad news that seems to be about everywhere.
This one came from “odd stuff magazine” but there are never credits given.
So to the rose, the dog, and the photographer – Thanks!
And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.
John