Well, I was out in Mansfield again today, with a very few minutes, so I decided to stop by the cemetary to check out the cemetary cactus... they're putting out their fruits this time of year, and in about a month or so they'll be blooming their fool heads off. (The blooms are the ones in the header pic)

I've done some checking around, and this is evidently one of the few remaining areas where these plants are growing in a wild or semi-wild state in this area... would have gotten a few more pics, but I got an order and had to run...

I was intent on blogging today. I'm trying to make a point of blogging, as I've been very lazy about it lately. Actually, not so much lazy, as working on another writing project. It would appear that, when it comes to typing, I have only so many words a day before my brain says 'no more'

But here's a few pics from the yard... some pansies...

The Rosemary is blooming too... usually it blooms in December, if it's gonna, but this year it decided to surprise me... I'm one of the few people I know who like rosemary blooms... I've always thought they looked like tiny little orchids...

And the Southern Snowflakes are going haywire...

And that's really about it. I know, not very exciting huh?

around the garden...

just a few shots of some of the ruellias in the yard... these are really great plants, producing flowers by the hundreds. Sometimes called Mexican Petunias, these are native to Mexico... this is a cultivar named "Chi-Chi" which gets about 2 1/2 feet tall and has fine, thin leaves...

This is the old standard... with wider leaves, to 3+ feet tall and invasive. People sometimes plant these in alleys, as they spread quickly and thickly, can survive without watering, and grow thick enough to suffocate the weeds.


And this is my Pachypodium lameri, which I'm only posting because I'm feeling cantankerous and I want to make Julie jealous...
later!