After Two Days of Rain
Under the Pines January 16
Under the Pines January 18
Next to the Bunny
More Undersides
After the Rain
2019 January 1 Shell Beach
Low Tide
And Collected Holey Rocks
Trapped Cactus
Apparently a decision was made to landscape the area where the Trapped Cactus was growing. At first glance I thought the cactus had been totally removed.
Closer look, the Trapped Cactus is stilling growing sandwiched between the chain linked fence and the reed privacy fence.
What a resilient plant! What a relief that it still lives.
Impulse Buy and What to do With Them
I was in Michaels looking for a bead needle and ran across ceramic bunny beads. They made me smile. After finding a bead needle, I went back to look at the bunny beads.
What do you do with an impulse buy?
First I made a pair of earrings.
Then another pair of earrings.
Made a necklace with the beads strung on linen.
The thing is, I really don’t wear jewelry, especially cute jewelry.
When I am not working in the studio or garden, I wear a necklace that I made with a pair of pewter magnolia earrings.
The necklace is waxed linen cord with a bound holey rock from a NY Day visit to Shell Beach. My wedding band. Part of a pair of bunny earrings. One earring lost at a garden supply shop. The earrings were a gift from my husband. And a small locket my niece gave me. It is funny that I actually gave her the locket years earlier for Christmas. The locket has a photo of my husband and Nora, a bunny who lived with us. Everything is sentimental.
December 21st will be the 4th anniversary of the death of Nora, the sweet little bunny who lived with us.
Back to the impulse buy, finally I made this bobble.
It is closer to my work and my necklace. I like the combination of a spring and black safety pin.
When would I ever wear it? I tried fastening it to a jacket, that didn’t work. I tried fastening it to the laces of shoes. That didn’t work.
Last night I hung the bobble in the kitchen. It is too small to be on its own.
This morning had an idea for the bunny beads. Leaning toward stringing the beads together with Birch twigs, safety pins, and linen fiber. Could hang them from the kitchen spice rack filled with bunnies. Seems like it could be a fitting solution.
More Agave Photos
Solanum pyracanthum at the local Farm Supply
The plant looks dangerous, but is it toxic? According to Wikipedia it is.
Solanum pyracanthum on Wikipedia.
The plant contains toxic tropane alkaloids in its leaves, stem and fruit and therefore should be considered dangerous to humans.
Did I purchase it? Nope. I like the idea of plants with thorns, but I do not like to work around them.
First Glance–Looked Like A Caterpillar
Images of Hibiscus trionum Life Cycle
Agave with Unusual Color
Wait… What is inside my tomato?
This afternoon I went food shopping because I had a hankering for a simple lettuce and tomato salad.
I washed and prepared the lettuce. Washed the tomato. Cut the tomato. Placed some of the tomato on the lettuce. Then noticed something odd.
2018 November 15 Afternoon
On closer look, it became clear that several tomato seeds were sprouting inside the tomato.
2018 November 15 Afternoon
Apparently, I was under the mistaken notion that tomato seeds cannot sprout inside the fruit.
2018 November 16 Morning
2018 November 16 Morning
College Of Agriculture, Health And Natural Resources Extension
Vivipary happens when the hormone controlling the seed dormancy is exhausted or runs out, letting the seed grow in the moist environment inside the fruit.
B. Rosie Lerner, Purdue Extension Consumer Horticulturist
In tomatoes, cool temperatures coupled with low light conditions (such as in refrigeration) is thought to inhibit that particular PGR (plant-growth regulators), thus allowing the seeds to germinate inside the moist, warm environment of the fruit, when brought back to room temperature.
The sprouts of tomato seeds are toxic, so you should not eat the fruit.
Since I had tossed some of the cut tomato into my salad I removed it and rewashed the lettuce.
What should I do with the rest of the tomatoes that I purchased?
Outrageously Fresh? Sure they could be. Perhaps what could have happened–the tomatoes
were chilled between harvest and the shelf in the grocery store.
If I don’t slice the tomatoes could the seeds sprout and emerge through the skin? That would be very cool.
What should I do with the sprouting seeds? Plant them?
No guarantee what I might get if any of the seedlings survive.