A few commenters from last Floral Friday were interested in seeing all five the aloe flower clusters opening, so I was able to capture the photo above this week. I’ve never had an aloe plant put up this many flower stalks and this many flowers. I wish I knew the…
Category: Photography
Nature
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Photography Moment – Golden Beet
Now that the weather is slightly cooling off, it’s time to warm up the oven and start making roasted root vegetables again. It’s one of my partner’s favorites and perfect food for the cool evenings. I was slicing up a golden beet on my cutting board when I noticed the…
Gardening
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Floral Friday – October 2, 2026
No, this is not a repeat. This aloe plant, which bloomed earlier this year, is now blooming again. And this time it’s throwing up multiple flower clusters. The main one is just starting to open its little flowers, and I hope in the next week or so they all begin…
Nature
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Photography Moment – Busy Sky
Walking out of the grocery store on Sunday, I looked up and was amazed at the streaks of white crisscrossing the sky. To me, it looked like someone had taken a brush and made random streaks of white paint on a textured canvas. I’ve always been fascinated with contrails, the…
Gardening
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Floral Friday – September 25, 2026
I found these inky cap mushrooms growing at the base of one of my raised garden beds. From what I read on Google, they tend to appear around rotting wood. Which makes sense. When I set up a raised bed, I fill it halfway with branches, small tree limbs, leaves,…
Art
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Photography Moment – Filtered Sunlight
While the image above may look like an abstract painting, it’s actually a photo I took recently. This is sunlight filtered through window blinds and reflecting on a wall in my home. It caught my eye one hot afternoon. I tend to keep the blinds closed in the heat of…
Gardening
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Floral Friday – September 18, 2026
Nothing extravagant for this week’s Floral Friday. Instead, I thought I’d share this little mushroom. It may be the tiniest one I’ve ever seen. I was rolling up the garden hose the other day and happened to look down. There, amongst the brown and gray fallen leaves was a little…
Dogs
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Photography Moment – Morning Mist
We took the dogs out for a drive early Sunday morning, before the traffic picked up, and headed down to Miller’s Landing on Lake Jackson. The lake has been a subject of previous photos, but this time I was able to capture some early morning mist on the water. Lake…
Gardening
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Floral Friday – September 11, 2026
I think Morning Glories have some of the prettiest flowers. The one growing in my yard has soft, pastel blue blooms. They are currently growing in a spot near my back patio, amid a collection of Jewel of Thailand and several potted fruit trees. What I like about the photo…
Gardening
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Floral Friday – September 4, 2026
This zinnia caught my eye last weekend while I was weeding a garden bed. Not just the color of the flower and how it contrasted with the dark leaves and railroad tie, but also the tiny yellow florets in the center. Like little flowers within a flower. Fall isn’t too…