by admin | Feb 26, 2013 | Bright Lights
I’ll admit it; watching the Academy Awards has long been my guilty pleasure. I think I must have been in junior high when the tradition began. Mother and I would get the dishes done, homework would be finished, Cokes would be poured, and we would settle in for the...
by Alice Liles | Feb 25, 2013 | Blooming Now
Echeveria v. Sleepy. The blooms are small but dainty and pretty.
by Alice Liles | Feb 23, 2013 | Blooming Now
Neoporteria. I bought this cactus several years ago because I liked the white spines, but was very pleasantly surprised and pleased when it bloomed-and bloomed and bloomed! The flowers last four or five days, and it will bloom off and on all year. So I highly...
by Alice Liles | Feb 21, 2013 | Blooming Now
Mammillaria echinocactus echinopsis before blooming. The buds are becoming visible around the last ring of wooly aeroles. This picture was taken on January 20, 2013. This is the same plant on February 13, 2013. The buds are beginning to open. On February...
by admin | Feb 20, 2013 | Bright Lights
One more cooking disaster: the cake I passed off as brownies, sort of. This one happened after we had graduated from Texas A&M and had moved to Edna, Texas, which was right down the road from Victoria, Texas, which made it an easy commute to University of Houston...
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