2:00PM Water Cooler 5/18/2023 | naked capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Patient readers, brunch today was far too long for me to get back to my desk in time, and far too liquid for me to be coherent had I been able to do so. Talk amongst yourselves! –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 IM:

IM writes: “A plant top-up…one from Goldstream park on Vancouver Island. The salmon forest! Mostly big-leaf maples. There are a few Constable-sized rustics in this one for scale.”

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