Beautiful Garden Flowers and Bug Porn!

A very lovely profusion of wild flowersYes, there are way too many flowers crammed into that tiny little space. You see on a whim a few years ago I decided to buy a large bag of mixed wild flowers seeds and being the lazy bum that I am decided it was far too difficult to actually plant them.

Into the refrigerator they went where they languished for several years...tsk tsk tsk.

I decided I was tired of moving them around in there and I did have this now empty space in the planter in the front of my house and with my Mothers warning that they would probably be no good and not grow I happily started sprinkling seeds in my planter.

Now I know that you aren't supposed to put that many in one spot but this was a bare patch and my Mom did say they probably wouldn't grow AND I was tired of looking at the bag in the fridge anyway. Sooo, I dumped the whole bag in there, hehe.

I walk out there everyday to see what new kind of flower is sprouting. I just can't get over how happy this crowded little patch makes me.

This one just showed up and so far is the only one like it. LOVE him!

Daisies or small sunflowers. Who knows, I had promptly thrown away my bag and have NO idea what I planted.

Such a lovely happy flower.

I was digging through some weeds and the process startled both me and this praying mantis. He is beautiful but he really kinda freaked me out a bit. He kept "glaring" at me and swiveling his head around to look at me.
This picture is blurry but says it all. He was not happy with me at all. *shudder*

This is a lovely wild lantana plant that just 'showed' up one day growing right next to the wild pomegranate tree that showed up right before it.

I love this flower!

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Just a warning, bug porn ahead!

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I've marked this particular pomegranate as I'm sooo not eating it! Hehe.

I wish my picture had come out just a hair less fuzzy. Aren't those markings beautiful!

No, I have no idea what they actually are. Hope they aren't stink bugs though...

Some New Ralphies on a Cold Winter Day

I have been working slowly but steadily lately on several things. Sometimes with only a couple of minutes to spare. Needless to say it took me forever to finally complete anything at this snails pace I was setting.

I decided to have a photo shoot yesterday. I picked a day that the wind was blowing at a brisk 40 mph. My back yard was a jumble of blowing leaves which is amazing as I only really have palm trees back there. These leaves were blowing in from all over the neighborhood.

I used some of them in my photo shoot. To not use them would have been akin to looking a gift horse in the mouth.

The Ralphies. These perpetually perturbed felines, (haha) just make me smile. This look is so Ralphie. I've decided that I want to make these into either a magnet backed Ralphie and a pin backed Ralphie. Now I just need to decide which one gets what.
Here's Ralphie looking utterly perturbed just because we are all looking at him.

And the sky was a gorgeous shade of blue in which Alex the bunny was totally reveling in.

Monsieur Grenade, being French for Mister Pomegranate. He has a removable hand crocheted scarf wrapped around his neck for warmth on this cloudless windy day.