Summer Sunset Bloom

While waiting for a friend to arrive at her parent's house, I noticed I had parked next to a huge, blooming stand of pinkish-white peonies. With the sun low along the horizon, the flowers were awash in a golden glow of sun. Those who hate to wait need only look around to capture their impatience with something that makes the passage of time an enthralling journey.

Floating Tulip

When the tulips bloomed, they threw such the vibrant show of colors against the drab garden. The braggarts. ;) Nevertheless, I couldn't help but be mesmerized by their simple beauty. Amid the green leaves, this appley-red tulip head appeared to be magically floating. Within, a little bug has nestled to "sleep" in this floating castle. Most certainly it was attracted by this flower's magical display. If its male counterpart were to arrive and kiss her, would she wake up? Would they then live happily ever after?

Cactus Gone Wild!!

That Christmas cactus has really let loose and I've caught all the action on camera! Woo hoo! So the cactus has decided to flower *yet* again in such short time! Unbelievable! It must be the fish waste water with its high nitrates doing the trick! Wow! Potent fertlizer! I should stockpile it better and sell some of it too! ;)

Flowering Cactus

I've had this Christmas cactus for many years now and finally...FINALLY it has actually flowered! Prior, it'd been quite the tease by producing many buds that would always drop off before anything came of it. I'm not exactly sure what changed, but if I would guess that it had to do with what I started to feed it. I usually watered it with plain water or a cactus fertilizer. This year, I got some fish for a 20 gallon tank. I heard that the nitrates in the fish water is great for watering plants and so I did....ONCE and suddenly, I had buds. Not only that, they actually opened! All of the buds!!! I'm definitely saving all that fish water to water anything and everything!!