This nice color combination makes me want to smile.
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Freesia
My freesia are sprouting these beautiful white and red-yellow flowers in the patio. I just love spring!
From WikiPedia:
Freesia is a genus of 14-16 species of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, native to Africa. Of the 14 species, 12 are native to Cape Province, South Africa, the remaining two to tropical Africa, one species extending north of the equator to Sudan.
The genus was named in honor of Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese (1795-1876), German physician.
Tulips
Busy, busy days at work for the Cap’n, so I’m putting up a nice picture of these tulips, probably the last of the season.
Damsel’s Boo Boo — Update
We received an email from Coconut Commando who is currently enjoying an extended, (extended again) all inclusive vacation package to Iraq. CC responded to the article Damsel’s Boo Boo with this advice for gardening apparel when working around thorny vegetation:
I’ve had the same experience with the same palm type as well as Sagal Palms and Elephant Grass. If you’re dealing with these, a denim jacket plus a BDU top seems to work enough to stop the ripping of flesh but you still get the puncture. Do they know Damsel by her first name at the ER?
Actually, Damsel and another woman needed sutures that day. The nurses didn’t refer to them by their names but as “palm tree” and “dog bite,” respectively. That made us laugh.
The stitches come out tomorrow.
Update: Latest healing progress (don’t look if stitches creep you out).
Update: Stitches are out!
Pink Hydrangea
We had a busy weekend; yesterday was the gun show and today we went to the firing range. After shooting and before cleaning the guns, we went to the garden shop for some spring flowers for the garden. I took this closeup of a nice pink hydrangea in the store.
After cleaning the guns, we enjoyed a nice baked chicken dinner with all the trimmins’. The nice thing about a meal like that is you can prepare everything early in the day and let it cook in a medium-low oven.
California Poppy
The California poppy (Eschscholzia Californica) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude in the western United States throughout California, extending to Oregon, southern Washington, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and in Mexico in Sonora and northwest Baja California.
I took this yesterday in our back yard under cloudy skies.
Damsel’s Boo Boo
Damsel wanted to make sure that people are warned about the potential danger of the Mexican fan palm tree’s thorns. Last Saturday, she brushed past a pruned frond stem and ripped her forearm. There was obviously not going to be a home-remedy first-aid resolution to the injury, so we went to the emergency room to get some help. They stitched it up and sent us home several hours later.
A larger-sized view of the offending palm frond stub and photographs of all the gory details appear below when you click on “Continue reading . . .” — Please don’t look if blood and stitches are going to creep you out.