by Alice Liles | Aug 10, 2021 | Cactus Are Cool
The genus Alluaudia is one of the many plants native only to Madagascar. Six varieties exist. I happen to have two of them. One I am pretty sure I have identified correctly, this Alluaudia montagnacii.This particular alluaudia has spines longer than its leaves,...
by Alice Liles | Aug 9, 2021 | Bright Lights
As I added my contribution to the CTA goody bags and carried filled bags into the board meeting room, April Smith delighted in reminding me that back in the day-way last century!- I was the one responsible for starting this practice of presenting the new MISD...
by Alice Liles | Jul 27, 2021 | Cactus Are Cool
I had seen a picture of this plant’s flower and knew I wanted one. So when I learned that friend and fellow cactus-lover Woody Minnich in Edgewood, New Mexico, had them for sale in his Cactus Data Plants greenhouse, I jumped at the chance to get one. I ordered it in...
by Alice Liles | Jul 25, 2021 | Bright Lights
In 2012 and 2015 Muleshoe was graced with being one of the five towns on the KCBD Community Coverage Tour. The pandemic put a temporary stop to the tour, but this year the folks at the television station were at it again, and Muleshoe was one of their stops. We were...
by Alice Liles | Jul 19, 2021 | Bright Lights
Twelve miles east of Lazbuddie at the intersection of Highway 145 and FM 503/504 just past where Parmer County gives way to Castro County, a community called Big Square thrived, for a time, on land that used to be part of the XIT Ranch. Big Square is now gone,...
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