They're looking rather like Victorian wallpaper. If tonight's storm has any fierceness to it at all, they will probably be a little battered by the morning, so I'm recording this year's spectacular bloom while I can.
Update on the deceased rodent story: it was a former mouse, or maybe a very small rat - in a big and not easily accessible crawl space. Rodent operative said Rat. It is now removed, and a grating that I hadn't seen was gappy is now blocked off with wire. There clearly are rodents out there (where's a bobcat, or an owl, or even a mountain lion, when you need one?) - when I went out to take this photo just now there was a great rustle and thump among the plant pots to my left ...
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