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The Great Wall of Tita is a success!  She has gone up her usual way several times but she can’t get beyond the spot where the bamboo fencing starts.
She’s trapped in the yard and we are very happy about it. We can now leave the doors open with only the screen and she can [...]

I have a bit of an addiction to ponds, fish and water plants.  I know I’ve posted pictures of the hall pond, the garden pond and maybe even the little Betta pond, but have I mentioned that I also have a big, ugly, plastic, kiddy pond on the roof? Yea, I do.  It has plants [...]

Finally! The first bloom from a night blooming lily.  I’ve had 2 other night blooming lilies but they both died, not sure why  they just never grew much and then disappeared.  This one was given to me by a local ponder Francisco and I am thrilled with the huge 6″ bloom.
First the anticipation, I spotted [...]

The outside pond is starting to come together as well. The water is clear as gin – I love that phrase – and the lilies are blooming. I’ve identified one positively, which is the one I most wanted so that’s cool. It’s called Foxfire and was developed by an online friend Craig [...]

Sometimes life just gets in the way of a good internet addiction.  Or, the blogging juices dry up.  Or, anything you might want to write about you figure you probably shouldn’t.   I’ve had all of those things going this past two weeks.
I’ve also been really busy.  I’m doing a lot of things I enjoy, working [...]

Look what I found growing in a pot of palms after the rains.   It was so delicate and beautiful, it lasted only part of  a day and then almost dissolved.
I’m so enthralled by my outside pond because we can now see the bottom clearly.  What a change.  I spend hours out there staring at the [...]