flowers, growth, my left eye, and is nothing sacred?

Finally had a magnolia blossom open low enough for me to reach. It's enormous, spans 9".

For the first time in I can’t tell you how long I read and returned two books in two weeks when they were due, not a month later. I didn’t even manage to do that last summer when all I could do was sit on my ass and ‘rest and recover’ from one fucking procedure after another. Emboldened, I checked out two more on Saturday.  

I go back to the eye doctor today to find out if I can resume my normal lifestyle; bending over, picking things up, yoga, finding out when I can stop the eyedrops although I don’t really mind them, and most importantly, when I can rub the eye without damaging the new lens. I freaked myself out last Wednesday. I had been outside, it was hot, I was sweating and when I came in I picked up my bandana to wipe the sweat off my face and out of my eyes and I pressed on the left eye before I registered what I was doing. I was convinced that my new clear and in focus eyesight in that eye was now blurry. Was it? I don’t know. What I’ve decided is that it is still healing and adjusting but still pretty good. It still feels like there is something in my eye sometimes, goo, although both eyes generally feel that way in the mornings, but the last two nights watching tv I realized my eye felt normal so it’s getting there. 

I got stung by a red wasp Saturday. The bastard nailed me on my face about half an inch from the outside corner of my right eye. Fuck, that hurt. I don’t blame it, it was just protecting its nest. I was cutting away some of the virginia creeper, briar, and wild grape that has started taking over sections of the fence between the shop yard and the neighbor again that I spent months clearing about four years ago before we put the house there for my sister. I have not been vigilant this spring and that’s what it requires to keep the growth down. I was working on a particularly dense section when that little bastard zoomed out. I’ll have to look closely to see if I can see the nest. I don’t ordinarily kill them and the nests, they have their place in the ecosystem, but I’ll have to so I can finish clearing that growth. Couldn’t ever see the nest so I just doused that spot thoroughly yesterday.

The zinnias are in full bloom. I put them in a different spot this year, closer to the house now that the pecan tree that was so heavily damaged in last summer’s hurricane isn’t shading that part of the yard. They are mostly various shades of pink but some white, red, yellow, and orange.

The pink plumerias are putting out bloom stalks and even have a few flowers on one. I’ll have to wait longer for the bridal bouquet plumerias since I cut them back severely last fall because they were over 8’ tall but they’re putting out lots of new growth.

I’ll leave this without comment from the Department of What Is Wrong With This Picture: