Japan has this amazing talent for getting away with being cute. I wish you could all just watch a 10 minute sample of randomly selected Japanese commercials, and you'd probably get a sense of how many...School Festival) today and tomorrow, and will hopefully have a post with pictures about that all in a couple days. Monday I've got another trip planned and hopefully will have a seperate entry for it

Just a small set. Also, notice the reference to the set number in the title. ;)

..." Well, here it is only three and a half months later and I have an answer. But before I go into it, I need to express how strange it is to me that after several years paying attention to the wild plants of my city, that one with such a distinct field marking (the smell) should have eluded me until now. At my workplace (an animal facility in a large city park), this weed is exceedingly common...

Впадаю в эйфорию всякий раз, когда удаётся точно определить редкую орхидею. Орхидей так много, что в них легко запутаться. Вот, представляю вам сегодня высокогорную орхидею, произрастающую исключительно... f. В совсем уж древние времена ее объединяли со всем зигопеталидами (Zygopetalum pictum).   Снято в Коста-Рике. Национальный парк Монтеверде. Август 2007.  кликайте для увеличени

A couple of days ago I cut the seed heads off the salvia superba, echinaceas, liatris and some rudbeckias. Stirred the seeds together in a container and went out to the roadside ditch and scattered them around. Hopefully we’ll get some plants from them next year! Since that salvia grows so profusely and spreads seed like crazy, maybe it can hold it’s own against the *#&$*! tansy and knapweed.

As most of you know, Don and I don't have kids or pets, but we do have plants. To us they are  pets, like your cat or dog is. We have a sick one at the moment. A beautiful little variegated ficus that is a legacy of sweet lady who lived next door. She had brain cancer, and near the end when she couldn't take care of her plants any longer, she asked me to take them. We found homes for many of them...

So, I've started work.  I'm a little tired, so this post won't be too long, because they changed the schedule and I'm working at 9 for the rest of the week, not 1.  More like usual hours, and hey, pay... but I took off the little front piece, cleaned it up, did some minor repairs, and voila!  I'm very happy with it.  Look, new orchid on top!  Anyway, sorry for the pic spam and general rambling. 

...with the coupons). Their pumpkin ice cream is divine. Home for another nap and more knitting in the comfy chair. Lots of project progress made but again, all for Christmas. Today I brought all of my plants inside. I re-potted a spider plant and two pots of peace lilies. I put the peace lilies in 6" pots and I'm hoping that will limit their size, as I do not need any more peace lily shrubberies. The...

...will grow towards the music. WHY?!?! i can't begin to wrap my brain around this one! is it an emotional response? a response of opinion? i have to rule these two out immediately, as i don't believe plants have emotions or opinions. is it instinct? no, i believe only animals have instinct. (is it an instinct that causes leaves to lose their chlorophyll in the fall so that the trees change color? certainly...

grar. *gnash* My grown up cat will be fixed. I will have a list of what is needed to fix my car. I will have a car again. I will have a CD player and the ability to go wherever I want at any time. I finally went into the plant shop across the street. They don't sell plants. They sell fertilizers. And they have two big playful dogs. I'm glad I went there.