Ruby Tuesday - My Apologies

As I was reviewing the shots I took the last few days, I couldn't find anything really red....I had pink, purple, and orange, all of which I consider to be sort of shades of red. When I arrange my papers or my fabric, I always keep those shades close to the reds. Does that make me a bad person : ) Anyway, here is what I have to offer - "shades of red":

The butterfly plant

The Indian Pipe Vine

The thing I can never remember the name of - one of the amorphophallic or whatever plants - some years it come up like this, some years it comes up with stalks and leaves.  When it's like this, it stinks and attracts flies.  Lovely, huh?

A cactus flower.

A teeny tiny wild flower

The Passion Flower

If you were dying to see ruby, I'm sorry : ( 

To participate in Ruby Tuesday, or just to look at some great shots, click on the button to the right.  Have a happy day.  Peace.  B : )

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 : )



New stuff at my shop - wanna see?
http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb

Mellow Yellow Monday - May all your weeds be wildflowers

That time again - hurtling toward Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then the New Year.  When we were very young we used to wish away all of our time.  What were we thinking?  If only we could do like that George Carlin skit and come into life fully grown, relatively intelligent adults, and go out as little babies.  Wouldn't THAT make life different?  I suppose we would miss a lot though, like all that teenage angst and stuff : )

Push the button on the right and go over to the Mellow Yellow Monday site and spread some cheer and pick some up too.

The purple is porter weed, grows very tall and bushy, the yellow is wedelia, it's a spreading ground cover, and the third one is truly a weed, whose name I do not know.  These are all cohabiting nicely down in the far corner of the yards that we left as cover for the wildlife.  I saw it in action the other day - two squirrels being pursued by a giant greyhound and two furry terriers were able to hide in there and go up a pole and sit on the wire and say nah nah na na nah.  Have a wonderful week.  Be a blessing to someone.  Peace.  B : )