Monthly Archives: September 2012

Prayers Drippin’ With Drama

Tell me what you see?  Is it on overhead view of a pink river making its way through the shallows and the deep of some green sea?  Or is it a pink tree trunk with glowing green auras?  Well, if

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Tantilizing Torches Burn With Desire

There are succulents and then there are sexy succulents.  By sexy I mean uniquely beautiful.  If I had to choose a sexy succulent, hands down, it would be Aloe speciosa also known as the Tilt-Head Aloe.  Come on, I mean

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All Hail The Queen

Ah yes, nature and her design.  So magnificent that you can’t just recreate it.  Look closer.  Feels like you’re falling into the rabbit hole.  This particular one is filled with brilliant pattern, mysterious texture, and bold shape. This is Podranea

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Spiraling Towers Tipped To Tantalize

Somewhere in the tropical forests of Costa Rica something screwy is going on. Cork-screwy that is. Where are my manners?  May I introduce Costus barbatus otherwise known as Red Tower Spiral Ginger.  I happened to see this Costa Rican transplant

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The Ever Elusive Moody Blues

Do not adjust your view screen.  Set the controls to dreamy, hazy, ‘draizy’.  Let everything become warm and fuzzy.  Yes its true, the ever elusive Trichostema lanatum has been caught on camera.  Trichostema lanatum otherwise known as the California native

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