I stood watching the dogs when the wind kicked up. The trees above me rattled like a hundred diamondbacks.
My neighbors clearly have a green thumb. Unlike myself.
Windy
Tag: Flora
Firebush addendum
I had no idea that those little flowery things on Firebush plants actually open!
And what is this?? They’re hanging off a rapidly growing tree.
And this weird looking thing?
Paradise, Bird of
Look what I found while cleaning out one of the beds! Crafty little devil, tucked away out of eyesight. Well, not anymore…
Shadows
I count shadows from at least six different sources..
I love morning.
Canna Bloom
It’s going to be a good day.
Oh, I took this looking out my bathroom window. I wanted something pretty to look at…
Here Comes the Sun
During Alberto
Tradescantia pallida, more commonly known as Purple Heart… and since I always post the first Crinum lily of the season… lily with Bree in the background. In people years the old girl is 83.
You can’t kill crinums. I pulled the entire bed up after Irma… about 60 of them… and threw the ones I wanted to keep in another bed. Not planted. They lay there dormant, looking door-nail dead, until I planted them again this Spring. Miraculous.
Alberto has been dumping massive amounts of water on us, but guess what? It’s monsoon season anyway. For two weeks before Al got here we were inundated every day. Fortunately we live on a sandbar.
