18/52 Cactus Rose

Other photos from the last few days on the way... 

A slice of TX

Texas has some of the best wildflowers I have seen.  They will cover entire fields and are all along the highway between Dallas and Waco.  There are lots of the classic Bluebonnet, but there are lots of other yellow flowers, red ones that look like Indian's Paintbrush, and all these little white and pink ones called the Showy Primrose.  

The top picture is at B's place (which she has sold now!), and the bottom one is one of her neighbor's place. That second one seems very Texas.  

Pepper Bells

We had pretty much given up on this poor pepper plant. It got huge, but never produced. Right when the heat slowed it has started to kick out tons of pretty big peppers. Persistant little thing... goes to show even non-sentient things do not like this much heat.

more pot(s)

We have a new pot-garden here at the new place and our hopes are higher for it than for our recent attempt at it on the apartment's balcony. There is more room and hopefully it won't be quite as unbearably hot for them this time around. So far so good though! We have basil, cilantro, chives, parsley, strawberries, green peppers, zucchini, tomatoes, lavender, mint, and something that looks like Gerbera daisies (maybe they actually are - not sure).

Here are the zucchini sprouts!

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That strawberry in the background there was super good - gives us high hopes for more of them...

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