Good Morning, Morning Glory!
This morning glory is the most exquisite shade of purply-blue, winding around a eucalyptus tree near our little pond and waterfall. I actually dug the holes and poured the concrete myself, one of my...
View ArticleSilent Sunday: Turning Toward The Light
On the dining room table, anthurium with sun and shadow turning toward the light.Filed under: All Posts, Garden: Verb and Noun, Photography Tagged: Anthurium, flowers, Good plants for indoors,...
View ArticleAngel’s Landing @ Zion National Park: Photos
A few of my favorite pics from our road trip last week: Pretty pink flowers growing out of the mountain wall at Angel’s Landing Beautiful bright red bird! Looking down from the top of Angel’s Landing....
View ArticlePassionately Purple
We didn’t have much of a winter here in SoCal — just a couple cold days around the end of 2014 — and now buds are bursting and flowers are blooming. Happy Sunday! Filed under: Garden: Verb and Noun,...
View ArticleNasturtiums in Orange #WordlessWednesday
So much is upsetting at WordPress…the change in the Reader and the format of the write/edit/publish page–whoever thought one could HATE to see “beepbeepboop” as much as I do — so in order to recapture...
View ArticleMy Fave FOUR-letter Word
What do you think it is? Nope, not that. Not even close… It’s SCAT. S-C-A-T. HAHAHA… I bet you NEVER would’ve guessed that, would you? WOULD YOU? I took myself on a little hike today to a local spot,...
View ArticleRandom Pics and Pearls
…of wisdom, that is. Although he passed away in 1938, Clarence Darrow, U.S. lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union and prominent advocate for Georgist economics, said this–as...
View Article“…that which we call a rose…
…would smell as sweet. First Robert Burns, and now Shakespeare? During this Covid-19 pandemic, I seem to be living in an alternate universe of poetry and literature. Pretty soon, my brain will start to...
View ArticleBlossoms of July
These (not mine) bluey-blue hydrangeas are amazingly beautiful. So is this dogwood (also not mine). But my own very rosy red hydrangea gift is special and belongs to me! That’s it. Nothing more to say,...
View ArticleWild Flowery Photos
From time to time, I purge old photos from my phone and these wildflowers were too pretty to dispose of, plus they reminded me of a really fun camping trip to the Pacific Northwest with my Angel Boys....
View ArticleHello, Yellow!
Not a shamrock in sight! I know it’s St. Patrick’s Day and I should probably write about that or the color GREEN, but my entire garden is bursting in bright, joyous YELLOW, so that’s how it’s gonna go...
View ArticleSpring Garden Tour
I took a look around and thought it’d be fun to share my other gardens at Casa de Enchanted Seashells. The little side yard next to the driveway…See the gigantic ceanothus to the left of the flowers?...
View ArticleMidnight Lily
This Odessa Calla Lily (Zantedeschia rehmannii violacea) is dark as a moonless night. In shade, the deep purple bloom is nearly black. Today, sunshine illuminates the royal purple curve of the petals....
View ArticleToday #WordlessWednesday #Photo
Nothing special, just some almost past their prime petals. These hydrangea flowers are supposed to be blue but I didn’t feed it with the right fertilizer. I don’t really care because I like this...
View ArticlePassionately Purple
We didn’t have much of a winter here in SoCal — just a couple cold days around the end of 2014 — and now buds are bursting and flowers are blooming. Happy Sunday!
View ArticleGardenia #WordlessWednesday
This was my mom’s favorite and sometimes I’ll get a plant so I can remember her by their fragrance, even though I’m sooo allergic. I used to think gardenia and camellia were the same flower, but I...
View ArticleNothing Rhymes with Orange
Is it true? Is there no word that rhymes with orange? Here’s what I found… “Orange has almost no perfect rhymes. The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with...
View ArticleButterfly Breakfast
Look at this orange butterfly feasting on an orange zinnia! I’ve never seen it before and I was so excited to learn this is a Gulf Fritillary or passion butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) They’re “longwing...
View ArticleSunday Blues
It was hot again but not quite as hot as the previous day. I took a break from yard work and gardening projects to lie on the deck and gaze up in wonder at the pure blue sky. I turned my head a bit to...
View ArticleHoliday Flower Photo Shoot
Happy early Hanukkah! It starts tonight at sundown which is closer to 4pm now after that ridiculous time change. Things are super dry here in SoCal and there isn’t much color in the garden but I have...
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