Colorado Springs: Pikes Peak

Today we ventured up Pikes Peak, one of the main reasons we came to Colorado Springs in the first place. We also learned that it wouldn’t have killed us to put at least one of our watches-or the clock in the car- on Mountain Time because we showed up for the train...

Two Surprise Blooms

I discovered some blooms I wasn’t expecting while checking on everything. Thought I might as well share them with you. My lithops have bloomed before, but I like them and I don’t know that I have share this white one with you before. And even if I have, it never hurts...

Channeling Roger Ebert Again: Hell or High Water

Sorry, Clovis, I just can’t agree: New Mexico doesn’t make a great Texas, and this is not an Oscar-worthy movie. I checked out a few other movie reviews, however, and I seem to be the only person on the planet who thinks this movie is pretty much a pile of stereotypes...

Pruning the Pachypodiums, aka Madagascar Palms

In a blog post on July 18, 2012, I introduced you to the fat plants pachypodium geayi and p. lamerii, also known as Madagascar palms. That was in 2012; by 2016 the two pachys I kept had grown a foot or more taller than me. They were outside this Spring when we had...