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...
Pueblo and On to Colorado Springs
When you drive through Pueblo on the Interstate, it just looks like an old mining town, which it is. But if you get off the I-25 and go downtown, it’s another story. We found beautiful old buildings and a lovely Riverwalk on the Arkansas river that runs through town....
Cactus, Succulents, and Heavy Rain
Muleshoe has had rain for the last seven days- August tends to be our monsoon season-and during those times when the water wasn’t falling from the sky, that sky was gray and overcast; no sunshine, which means that all my cactus and succulents, potted and in the...
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