A garden with a variety of large succulents under high shade from a pine tree with a bench on a patio in the foreground.
My garden in sunlight after many cloudy days.
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A garden with a variety of large succulents under high shade from a pine tree with a bench on a patio in the foreground.
My garden in sunlight after many cloudy days.
Solar Energy Rant as text. (Sorry)
I graduated from there
This same tree had a bumper crop this year. Not sure what’s happening with it.
Cimorene the cat is helping me fold laundry.
Portrait with Operculicarya decaryi and cat.
Today I have been practicing with new equipment to get ready to photograph the winning plants in our succulent show and sale in July.
This composition was not originally planned to include a cat.
White plumeria “Ken’s white”
My white Plumeria blooming away in the greenhouse.
Cat reveling in catnip
I pruned the catnip back away from the lettuce I was harvesting for lunch and Molly the Cat materialized so rapidly I nearly tripped over her.
Harvested a pineapple from the greenhouse.
My late wife was a yarn dyer during the 80s and 90s. On the side she tie dyed clothing for our whole family. Easy to spot the kids in crowd.
Go to Dharma Trading company. All the colors, lots of ready-for-dyeing clothing items. Also, how to information.
Tie dye has history.
www.dharmatrading.com
Three of the smaller red epiphyllum buds getting ready to burst into bright red five inch diameter flowers.
A large seven inch deep fuchsia and red fully open epiphyllum flower.
A large seven inch lighter fuchsia, fully open epiphyllum flower
A large seven inch lighter fuchsia, fully open epiphyllum flower next to a large not yet open bud.
So many Epiphyllum flowers. These are the ones I’ve had in my collection the longest, and run to red and fuchsia. (I have more pictures but Bluesky apparently only allows four photos in a post.)
Monetizing fear and hatred.
Most insurance is a bet against an unlikely, costly event occurring, such as a home fire.
Medical “insurance” is a bet counting on the ability to deny coverage for an inevitable costly event, such as serious, acute or chronic illness to a significant number of customers.
My Agave vilmoriniana (Octopus Agave) expands its tower of flowers.
This is straight out of the authoritarian handbook.
The flag of our country with the due process drained out.
An explanation of a difficult concept.
Pink moon Epiphyllum blooming.
Everyone will be wearing lizard hats now.
Blooming in the front garden
Photos from a walk earlier this week.
This inflorescence on the outdoor banana plant looks like a little banana flower choir.
A Tillandsia blooming in the greenhouse.
Happy little Ginkgo sprout says it’s Spring.
Some apricot flowers close up
An apricot flower close up.
Fungal fruiting body on the trunk of a dying apricot tree.
Another view of Fungal fruiting body on the trunk of a dying apricot tree.
Probably the last year for this tree but still blooming where it is alive.
This pretty definitively signals the end of my backyard apricot tree.
