by Alice Liles | Apr 19, 2016 | Bright Lights
So to continue my story about the wildflowers and railroad track, I was told about a half mile down the track there was an old railroad trestle and yet more bluebonnets that would make for a nice picture. Well, I needed my daily walk anyway, and a half mile isn’t that...
by Alice Liles | Apr 17, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
Along with some large specimens for the garden (which I will share another time), I also added some smaller non-cold hardy cactus a couple of weeks ago after a visit to Cactus Town (“Cactus Town Texas,” January 29, 2016), thelocactus Glory of Texas. And it bloomed...
by Alice Liles | Apr 11, 2016 | Bright Lights
Every year about this time the wildflowers come out in the Hill Country, and every year I tell myself I have enough bluebonnet and paint brush pictures. Every year the little devils seduce me once again, and I take yet more pictures. But this year I think I took as...
by Alice Liles | Apr 9, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
Dyckias are actually bromeliads, but because they have a tendency to collect water in complex ways and many thrive in arid regions like cactus and succulents do, people who like those plants tend to like bromeliads, too, and both kinds of plants are many times grouped...
by Alice Liles | Apr 7, 2016 | Bright Lights
We decided to sell our rent house, the one we bought and fixed up for Caroline and Colten when they moved back to Muleshoe. They didn’t live in it very long; Neil came along, swept her off her feet and whisked her off to Clovis. And that’s a good thing, but it left us...
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