We still don’t know the name of these lovely little orchid clusters. We will be looking for these at the Orchid Show and Sale in October to try and identify them.
This one is growing on the patio from a clipping that I got from Mom. Click image to enlarge.
Verna’s Mom, Jane, presented me with this beautiful Caribbean print as a belated birthday gift. It’s a Tommy Bahamas silk shirt with a Club Paradiso pattern. We both love this colorful Art Deco theme.
Photo credit: Verna. Click image for big.
When we go to the local home improvement warehouse store, we always enjoy visiting the garden shop. We both like looking at the landscaping plants, trees, flowers and succulents.
The hothouse is where you can find some of the more exotic tropical plants and flowers. There are orchids, ferns and a variety of other tropical items.
This hothouse is also where you can find garden pottery, specialty plant fertilizer, seeds and garden accessories. The other day, we were in the hothouse and I took a pair of images to merge into this anaglyph. Click on the image to see full-size. You will need a pair of 3D glasses to see the stereo image, so if you don’t have your free pair yet, you can see the 2D version here.
I got to sit on the front porch today and watch the Mama and Daddy Hoomins work on the trees out front. The Daddy went up a big stair thing like I use to get in the truck. When he got up there, he took out a buzzer thing and made pieces of the tree fall down. I wasn’t scared though. The Mama took the things that fell and put them in the black thing that always smells funny.
Yesterday, the Daddy Hoomin let me out in the back to chase a squirrel away from where the birds eat. It was fun. That’s a picture of me that you can make big if you click on it.
I’m tired now and think I will take a nap.
Walking through the garden shop at Lowe’s today, I noticed this lantana cluster with a single, lonely yellow blossom among the many red blossoms.
I went into the back yard yesterday morning and saw a hawk perched on my garden utility cart. I quietly rushed back into the house to get my camera and quietly returned to get some photos. The young bird stayed long enough for me to get several images. The composite image above is made from the best of the perched and in flight images.
According to my copy of “Birds of the Los Angeles Region,” this is probably a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk. This species is a year-round resident in the area and is known to ambush smaller birds as they feed. Cooper’s Hawks are often seen hunting around bird feeders – our feeders are to the left of the perched image, just out of the frame.
