Ruby Tuesday

Hello, Rose:

Spread the red - click on the Ruby Tuesday button to the right.  Peace.  B : )

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Fertilizer Friday

Here are some of the miracles happening at our house:

Nectarine.  Unfortunately, Joy, the new Greyhound, has taken to biting them either off the tree, or in half while still on the tree.  Guess we won't have to worry about birds and rats - Joy will take care of relieving us of all our nectarines!

One of the roses from the front yard - they seem to have benefitted from the unusual cold.

Pomegranate bud, from which an indescribably colored flower will come, after which the fruit will show up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

One of Florida's many, many wildflowers.  If you enlarge this and look closely you can see the beautiful little yellow stamens (right word?).  This little beauty is very tiny....and it's growing up out of the layer of dead leaves shed by the giant ficus tree during the cold spell.

This one is a lemon - a scraggly little tree that was here when we got here that still produces lots of large, beautiful fruit - more than the tree can handle really.

White Bird of Paradise - not as attention getting gorgeous as it's colorful variety, but pretty magnificent in its own right.

Peach - this is the second year for us with this tree.  It appears she liked the cold too.  Joy likes this one too - lots of toys to play with just hanging on the tree.

Lime.  I love lime.  Did you know that lime in a cola product will cut some of the sugar and some of the bubbles and give it an amazing flavor?  I use the leaves as much as I use the fruit, and I especially use them when there is no fruit.  The curious thing about citrus is that you can tell what kind of tree it is by bending and breaking a leaf and smelling or tasting it.  Therefore, the leaves impart the same flavor as the fruit.  A lime leaf or two can sure dress up some instant rice!

There are many more but this has been long enough!  Thanks for looking.  If you'd like to share your leafy miracles, just click on the Fertilizer Friday button to the right.  Peace.  B : )



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Ruby Tuesday

I went out front this morning and another rose had appeared.  So I brought it in and photographed it.  I like the leaf better than the rose because this is another scraggly rose.  But it's all good!  If you'd like to join in on Ruby Tuesday, just click on the little red shoes over to the right.  Have a beautiful day.  Peace.  B : )

It's Ruby Tuesday Time (please sing to the tune of Howdy Doody's theme song)

What do you mean you don't know Howdy Doody's theme song?  You must be waaaaay too young.  Oh wait, I think HD may have been a regional thing - and I'm from New Jersey.This was a hard choice, since I love red, almost as much as yellow and orange, but I decided to give my scraggly, sad looking, very long stemmed rose a chance to be in the spotlight.  Roses don't do all that well at my house, but I usually have a few to look at. This was the only one available today:

Please join the Ruby Tuesday gang at http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/2009/10/ruby-tuesday_26.html .  Come on, it's more fun that watching Howdy Doody.  Smile.  Peace.  B : )