Datura flowers, Roscoe

These flowers are very robust on the plant but decay very quickly on the ground.

Water tower, Jax Beach

This one always brings to mind War of the Worlds. Any day it could start walking around.

Neighborhood watch, Jax Beach

Off level seat, Jax Beach

Walk around Nocatee today, with the Holga lens. Flags everywhere.

Clyde's cucumber vine. Garden

Trader Joe's bags

We have a huge stash of these paper bags from Trader Joe's due to not being able to use our reusable bags during the pandemic.

Gingko leaf, Garden.

Gingko are meant to be the oldest tree continually living on earth. There lived when the dinosaurs wandered about. Mine is only 22 years old.

One of our gardenia bushes, garden.

when we first moved here, 27 years ago, my mother-in-law used to get gardenia plants at the florist to have that lovely scent, her favorite, in her apartment. When the flowers faded, she would give me the plant and tell me to plant them where they got afternoon shade. I put them under our two trees by the Intracoastal Waterway and watered them when it got dry. They have thrived and are now 8 feet tall and covered with blooms for three weeks at the end of April and beginning of May.

Confederate Jasmine, garden

Gardenias, garden

Monstera leaf, garden

Spanish moss, garden

Mulch day

 Today we spent the morning laying mulch over some recently liberated beds that had been overtaken by weeds. We both did a lot of hands and knees weeding and the My Little Hercules (above) put down the landscape cloth, a job I don't like and don't do well. Then I go get mulch from our recent delivery of 5 yards of it, and spread it around. All of these beds were a mess two weeks ago.

 This is my oldest herb, a gnarled old rosemary that I got 25 years ago and put into this container, which is metal. When I went to move it, the rusted out bottom gave away. So I had to dig out a hole and plant the whole thing. It is wonderful rosemary.

And this is how the ground under the mulch looked before we went after it.

Stuart, 1979

My best and oldest friend from 41 years ago.