Random Rants and Prickly Plants

Earlier this spring, when I was starting my garden in my haphazard lasidasical way... I found a packet of beans with about 8 seeds in it. I ...

Just some shots around the yard... this pic is a little overexposed, it doesn't really show the firecracker red of the bloom... but you ...

And this morning we have blooms from a wonderful Chamaelobvia "Rose Quartz", one of the hybrids of Peanut Cactus... I'm not ev...

well, I woke up at 5 am out of habit, and I don't have to be anywhere until 9:30 so I was goofing off with the plants... as much as you ...

So... I've had this darned plant for 2 years now, and I've never been able to pin down an ID... so it finally occured to me to send ...

Now, I've posted a couple of times about the beer can garden... the first time HERE Basically, here's the story in a nutshell... thi...

just some random pics around the yard... not sure that there's anything all that interesting going on... This is an actual Mansfield Cem...

As some of my older readers know, my Mother passed away last September ... so I have to say I wasn't looking forward to my first Mother...

No pics though... I ate it all up... For my final pot of chilli for the season, I made one of my Mom's favorite recipes... Detroit Chill...

I was driving to the grocery store on trash day about a month ago... when I happened to see these by the road. two badly treated cycas revo...