The figs are ripening!

 

Birdbath, garden

 

Magnolia branch, garden

 

Condiment corner in my kitchen.

 I have never seen a condiment or spice that I didn't immediately think I needed in my kitchen just in case a recipe called for it. There is a lazy susan on top of our fridge covered with them, two shelves in a cabinet and a small magnetic rack on the side of the fridge full of them. This is the spillover on my kitchen counter.

Future tangerines, garden

 Two more months!

Fire bush, garden

Covered with butterflies all autumn and visited by many hummingbirds

 

Live oak and Spanish moss by the river

 

Palm fronds, Garden

 

Palm frond, garden

 

Palm trunk, garden

 

Kitchen window

 

Janie

 

A hated weed, garden.

 This is an invasive weed, air potato. It is an incredibly fast growing vine that will cover and smother a tree of bush. The leaves are lovely hearts. It develops large tubers or bulbils that resemble potatoes. These will quickly form a new vine if they all to the ground. Any leaf node that touches will grow roots and flourish. Hateful plants from Asia. The university of Florida is trying to bring an asian wasp that eats these vines and nothing else, to our area. this is the first sign that they're at work.

Live oak bole

 

Future screen.

Some new neighbors are building a huge pair of houses on the land next door. The first thing they did was put up a 6 foot/2 meter fence along the property line. They broke with common etiquette and put the ugly side outward. The fence blocks our view out of both windows on that side of the house. I planted a giant clumping bamboo outside of both windows that will, in a year or so block all view of the fence and replacing with lovely graceful bamboo stalks and leaves, which I love. The color picture is from two weeks ago, the black and white from two days ago. One stalk almost to the top of the fence. Stay tuned.