Lucky me! I get to have this delicious Jambalaya for lunch today. It’s a Cajun dish with chunks of chicken, hot Louisiana sausage (Andouille), medium shrimp, carrots, celery, onions and garlic in a beef and tomato sauce served over a mound of rice. Excellent stuff.
This helping is left over from our dinner last Sunday. Verna snapped this photo as we were sitting down on the patio to eat. Click for the big picture.
Looking like it should be much closer to the horizon, the almost full moon tonight is tinted distinctively yellow. Like the green cheese is really yellow Cheddar cheese. The reason, of course, is smoke particles from the catastrophic California Firestorms filtering out blue moonlight, thus making the moon look yellowish.
I took this a while ago using the little A710IS Canon on a mini tripod. Click for a closer view.
Last Sunday at the local indoor firing range I took this shot of Verna punching holes in a silhouette target with the S&W 908 9mm semi-automatic pistol. On the right side of the photo, an ejected 9x19mm brass case and it’s shadow hovers in mid-air just before it ricocheted off of the partition onto the floor. Click for the close-up to see the brass.
When we spend time outdoors on the weekends, I often enjoy a bottle or two of Sam Adams Lager. After I pour the bottle in the mug, Bear will come up to me, salivating, and looking like she is sooooo parched. So I let her get the last trickles out of the bottle.
Verna snapped this while we were barbecuing out back.
Spineless or giant yucca is true to both its names: Its leaves are pliable and lack the sharp spines on the tips that are so characteristic of most yuccas, and this is one big yucca, getting up to 30 ft (9.1 m) tall. With age the trunk becomes rough and thick, and when mature it develops a swollen base and often branches a few feet off the ground. The leaves, which grow in a spiral rosette are shiny green, to 4 ft (1.2 m) long and about 3 in (7.6 cm) wide with serrated margins. Like other yuccas, this one has white bell shaped flowers borne on tall stalks above the foliage in summer. This yucca, ‘Variegata,’ has leaves with creamy yellow margins.
Spineless yucca is the tallest of the yuccas, and is often used as a framing specimen at the side of a building or along a walkway. It makes a striking presence in large landscapes, but may be too much for a small yard. Since they lack the sharp spines of other yuccas, spineless yuccas are harmless and can be used where most others cannot. They are grown in containers and sometimes seen in indoor malls. Use this handsome tropical looking yucca as an accent in a gravelly succulent garden, but realize it will get large. The flower petals are edible.
This individual yucca is growing in the South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes, California. I took this vertical panorama picture during our stroll through the cactus garden on Saturday. Click on the picture for a giant view.
We went to the Botanic Garden today for a mum show and sale. We took a walk down to the cactus garden where I snapped the three images for this panoramic view. Click the image to view large size.
