It May Be Chilly Today...

These are from my yard yesterday. Spring will soon be spronging out everywhere!

                                  Sweet smelling Edgeworthia  chrysantha (Oriental Paper Bush)

                                                                The first open Daffodil

                                                                 Pink Hellebore

White Hellebore

                          James Applewhite in his poem Jonquils called them sunlight broken in pieces

Artist with cerebral Palsey

This link takes you to a video of a truly remarkable artist, who has overcome physical handicaps and age to produce something meaningful and beautiful.

Front Flower Bed in August

This was my yard last August, just in case we all need a reminder that slowly, surely, the seasons are changing and the plants and people along with them.
An old red oak is the backdrop to my largest flower bed. Some long ago hurricane probably took the top out, and it has some kind of scar or growth on one of the limbs that has gotten bigger and changed shape over the years, but it solders on, providing shelter and food for local wildlife as well as shade shade and lowering of temperature in my yard

Bromeliad in December

This bromeliad has bloomed twice with 2 bloom stalks each time in the month of December. If you frequent plant stores (or big box plant shops) in winter you will see lots of different bromeliads blooming. This is one of the species of Bilbergia, and was given to me several years ago by a friend.

Bad News About My Vocation

I snagged this from the Writer's Almanac. It made me laugh.



Bad News About My Vocation 
by Ron Koertge

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I remember how the upper crust in my hometown
pronounced it-care-a-mel. Which is correct, I guess,
but to everybody else it was carmel.

Which led to the misconception about the order
of Carmelites.

I imagined they served God by heating sugar
to about 170 C, then adding milk and butter
and vanilla essence while they listened
to the radio.

I thought I could do that. I could wear the white
shirt and pants. I knew I couldn’t be good
but I might be a good candy maker.

So imagine my chagrin when I learned about
the vows of poverty and toil enjoined
by these particular friars.

I also crossed off my list the Marshmellowites
and the Applepieites, two other orders I
was thinking of joining.

Pot Lady Has New Christmas Attire

                                                She sends you all Merry Christmas Greetings!

Red Maples look like Christmas decorations

These were so beautiful, and lasted a long time,too. They are the ones surrounding the lake behind EAMC Health Plus gym in Auburn.