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Friday, April 23, 2010

DON'T FORGET

Forget-me-nots.
Every year in Spring Cynoglossum amabile presents 
its blue blossoms to the universe.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

I like Phlox


I LIKE PHLOX.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

SLEEPY TIME FOOD STORY

I thought of writing something about
my experiences at a certain bread place,
where there is plenty of table space to
do homework, write stories, etc.
As I was placing my order, the girl asked me whether I wanted chips, bread, or apple with my sandwich. I told her to repeat my choices, because I wasn’t sure what they were. Then I asked "why more bread, doesn't the sandwich already come with bread?" And I chose apple.
After I paid, I got a familiar plastic device.
When my device started glowing, I went to the pick-up
counter to get my food. I was told by a young guy
that my sandwich was still on the grill,
so I left and sat down at my booth.
A few minutes later the guy came to inform me that my sandwich was ready -- this seemed comical.
He realized it and asked me: "Do you want me to bring your sandwich?" -- I said: "Yes."
The whole time I felt fine, but after I ate, I suddenly became sleepy and I ended up falling slightly asleep
at the table, with my head resting on my hands. And that's how this story ends.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

APRIL WILDFLOWER IN BRIGHT PINK AND WHITE


Wild Flower -- white and bright pink.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

GRAY DAY

The Calices Are Losing Color :  April 16, 2010.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

SANDPAPER VINE: The Story Continues

The flowers are complex: the calice (chalice) bears a bud
that opens as a very impressive, intensly colored 
( blue, purple or blue-purple) violet/pansy-like flower
that drops within two days, leaving the star-like
calice to slowly fade from lilac-blue to hazy- gray.


The leaves of the Sandpaper Vine are very rough on both
sides, like a sandpaper, even when they are young and green.
The flowers of the Sandpaper Vine come in racemes ( like
grapes). This raceme/bunch is the first "historic" one.
 - Our vine is in bloom for the first time, since it was
 planted five years ago. It grows in a clay pot outsde
of the family room window.

THE UTILITARIAN ASPECT OF PETREA VOLUBILIS

Petrea Volubilis aka Sndpaper Vine is a very 
 beautiful plant to watch when in bloom.
The leaves of Petrea V. are very rough on
both sides, like a sandpaper! So, naturally,
 I thought they can be used like a sandpaper,
especially when dry ( no trace marks of green).
And that is the utilitarian aspect of Petrea Volubilis!

I tried to sand an old piece of  wood with a dry leaf, and it worked.

Sandpaper Vine: the leaves are very rough, like a sandpaper!

DOUBLE BLUE

Blue and blue-purple double flowers. Pretty and interesting.
Yes, this is the mysterious Sandpaper Vine.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Verbena & Grapefruit

Verbena & Grapefruit, April 1, 2010.