2:00PM Water Cooler 6/6/2022 | naked capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Patient readers, I need to finish up a post on brain fog, so this will be an Open Thread. Enjoy! –lambert

Contact information for plants: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) here. From TH:

TH writes: “The tiny structure there is a pretend-well, it’s a display at the South Coast Botanic Garden (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) that makes me miss my childhood. I’d have lost track of time with nothing but the Monarch butterfly that was flitting from flower to flower while I took my pictures and a copy of “The Secret Garden” (Frances Hodgson Burnett) for company.” I loved the Secret Garden. What a great book!

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