This Little Trooper

 

Always good for a spot of color that was once a stow a way in pot of a larger

specimen. That specimen only survived about four years and yet this survivor

lives on.

From Props To Pot

 

 

This trailing African Violet cutting was given to me by my next door neighbor and today

it gets it's roots in a new environment of something more solid than water.

More Than One Way..

 to start a plant. Let me introduce to you, the Bulblet.

The ripe red berry is from a Clivia plant and when pealed it's bulblet is revealed.

It is my understanding that I will have to peal off the thin skin off the shown

here, after an over night in some water and then plant the bulblet in some potting 

medium and off we go and with time, we shall see.

Final Reveal

 Now it stands alone and should show it's colors in the months to come.

One Or Two

-Alert -first of all this picture is just a simulation. By the time I grabbed my phone

to catch this picture of two house geckos doing a stare down or perhaps a no, after you,

no, after you I insist. While this long legged, long winged, long bodied insect

doesn't seem to be phased at the least if it has a future.

By the time I get a picture the gecko on the right crawls off to it's regular hiding spot. So

now there is just the one gecko on the left on a stare down with the long legged, long winged, 

long bodied insect that still doesn't seem to be phased at the least or perhaps just paralyzed with 

fear of being a snack for this night creature, perhaps feeling lucky it wasn't going to be torn apart by 

two night creatures.

I wasn't about to stick around to see what direction their fates take flight.

A New Interloper

 

This rather average looking cat has some above average vocal abilities. This cat likes

to call and respond with me and either of us can equally be the initiator.

Before and After

 This Bougainvillea needs an intervention.

This variegated Bougainvillea has nearly equal parts of at least five varieties

plant volunteers growing amongst it's self and it is I that will intervene.

 

 

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Look ma, Camphor tree free.

Stay tuned! for minus the Virginia Creeper and Stink vines. 

So now the Bougainvillea can breath a little easier. As Winter's shorter hours commence, 

there will be blooms.

New Orchid Is Showing Off In More Ways Than One

 

Big spray of flowers and a mild scent of Smarties candies which I ate when I was just 

a wee lad and lived to reminisce about and didn't know any better.

   Oncidium 'Gold Dust' is the variety of orchid shown above.

What Creature Is This

 

that cares not to be hidden ? I guess I'm lucky there is just the one and is making it's 

self known with it's exotic coat and usually come in hoards and it is said that if you give a listen you can hear them munching away on whatever you may have for them to munch on.

Big Tomato

Today and the day before Tropical Storm Eta I gave of Aspirin (salicylic acid) to see

if  the therapeutic dose does it's magic. Twice because the first dose probably got

diluted from the soon to come tropical rain that delivered it's copious amounts of 

rain, enough to top and fill up any barrels of needed rain water. Cannot miss an

opportunity like that. 

Tomatoes are beginning to set , thanks to the drop in temperatures that it needs

in order to do so. I've been pushing this monster for the last too months with some

newly found chicken manure fertilizer and couple doses of some orchid fertilizer

just because, why not.

Time will tell once again.

Some mid sized beauties already set and just have to keep the bugs and such away

long enough for me to take a bite out of them.

Sorghum Who Knew

 

Nice substitute for rice and even pasta. discovered this while in Tampa last week.

Now a days there still are somethings one discover at a health food store, even if 

now a days your grocery store may be stocking the same thing and making most

health food stores obsolete but then again there's a whole lot of healthy choices 

missing from our grocery food stores. 

Over the years our grocery food stores have been dropping healthy items because

they are not selling like those proverbial 'shitty, no fiber no nutritional' hot cakes'.

 

It's still unfortunate that I still have to drive forty miles to get something that is

not available in my home town. Amazon can go you not what it's self/ Our conutry's

lax laws and letting the Amazon's of this country grow to what they are today is 

a sham and it's only going to get worse before it gets better, if it does get better.