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My last remaining tropical water lily is still blooming.
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Saw this guy on a walk today. The Gold Star Esperanza's are blooming like crazy and he was going to each flower. He's fast too.
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The moon last night during our walk.
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The Brugmansia is blooming. It smells really good at night. Hopefully we will have a long warm fall and we'll get a lot more blooms. The plant usually gets much bigger than this but it didn't get a lot of attention this summer.
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The yellow hibiscus is blooming. They are slow this year to flower. They haven't been getting very much attention.
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So last night we had heavy rain and high wind. The Lotus plant blew over. I didn't even think it could. Someone's window screen was in our driveway and I saw one of the neighbors giant garbage bins blowing down the street. At least we didn't have hail tho
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The big water lily from last summer takes months to show signs of life. I don't know why. It has two different water lilies in it too. Haven't figured that one out either.
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Lotus blooms and red dragonflies
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When we had frogs, we never had spiders like this, this close to the pond. Hopefully he's helping reduce the mosquito population.
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The Lotus is blooming again. It makes really tall flower stalks and it's hard to get a good photo of the flower.
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The Lotus is blooming. It's very tall and in the middle of the pond. It's been very hot and we had unsafe to breathe air so I took this from inside the house.
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Last year's Halloween pumpkin is showing some signs of mold on the bottom so I took it outside. It's been happy sitting at the bottom of the stairs until today. It's 100 degrees today so it probably won't last long.
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Bob isn't feeling good. He had more dental surgery Tuesday. The only teeth he has left are his 4 canines. He's been sneezing blood for a while so they did a biopsy to see what's going on. He has Stomatitis and he's FIV+ but he's pretty tough. He spent the
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The gigantic spineless cactus is blooming
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This was the one plant that we didn't have to move when we built the greenhouse. It lives right outside of the front edge. It doesn't grow very big but it comes back every year.
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Columbine flower blooms in the back flowerbed.
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The Blaze rose bush has been blooming out back. I finally got a photo. The flowers are fading.
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The ball moss is bad this year.
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This was a little bit before totality. It was hard to tell because we have so many clouds but it got really dark for a few minutes.
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We did Misty's summer shave a couple of weeks ago and I may need to trim a hair more off the front.
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The greenhouse plants are enjoying the weather. We moved a few out. Don't tell anyone but I carried one. I'm not supposed to lift anything heavy.
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I was working outside today and I think I stepped on the edge of this. I don't know what it is but I assume it's either some kind of mushroom or an alien life form. I left it alone.
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A neighbor got me these flowers before my surgery in December. They flowered all winter. I haven't been very active on social media but I'm trying.
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The Brugmansia is still flowering. It was in the 70's last week but after the rain it cooled down. Still no frost yet.
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Really pretty sunset tonight.
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Yams with marshmallows cooked in an air fryer. The one thing we did cook this Thanksgiving. Turned out really well. The crispy marshmallows were great.
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The fox showed up for dinner at the front door. There are two or three in the neighborhood maybe more. I'm not sure what they all eat but we try and keep food out for them. They usually eat on the side of the house but this one decided to come to the fron
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I think I'll just leave this guy as part of our Xmas decorations too.
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You can see the eclipse on the water lily leaves. #eclipse2023
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The hardy water lily that was nearly destroyed early on in the summer by bugs has returned full force. It's pretty much on its own down there in the deep end. We haven't repotted or fertilized it in many years.
