Yes, I know it's Southern California, and we've been having on and off crazy heatwaves for a while, now - but all the same, plants continue to bloom according to their genetic patterns, and I walked very slowly around the garden this morning admiring what's coming out. This, above, is some kind of delicate geranium (and me experimenting with a fixed lens camera, as opposed to an iPhone).
Our Ring camera system is currently proving, very well, the inadequacy of AI when it comes to visual recognition. It's recently taken to giving verbal descriptions of what it records. "A person at the front door," is clear enough, or "A person with a packet is descending the steps," or even "A person with a watering can is walking in the yard." It's thrown by the spiders that inevitably scuttle across its line of sight: "Seems like nothing interesting happened." But it can be very baffled by humans. Last week it identified me as a "brown deer," which, even if not a gazelle, was faintly flattering. Today, as I walked up the steps from the lower part of the garden, "A grey and white bird is walking along the rail." Huh?
And below: California coast sunflower, or California brittlebush, or Encelia californica. This is doing rather well.
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