xerophilous

adapted to a very dry climate or habitat, or to conditions where moisture is scarce

anyone know what these flowers are?

Photos are from my trips to Arizona in Decembers of 2012 and 2013.

Alphabe-Thursday, hosted by Ms Jenny, is so much fun!  This week our letter is "X." Come visit others' submissions HERE and join in the fun!  



photos by me  © 2012 and 2013  all rights reserved

Green

3rd baby barred owl that was re-nested in our backyard

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Re-nesting 

Baby Owl #2

flowering Bishop's Weed (Aegopodium podagraria) growing among the hostas in my garden

my daughter photographing bees (Asheville, NC)

sea grapes (Sint Maarten, NA)

green eyes of a praying mantis

detail of a hand dyed and painted dress by me here

mystery plant growing in my yard-- Here's what it turned out to be!

spiny cactus at Krohn Conservatory

Kauai, Hawaii

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Kauai 

Lush and Lava (Kauai, part 2)

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Pink: Today's Flowers

bottlebrush (Phoenix, Arizona, April 2009)

cactus (Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden, Arizona, April 2009)

bougainvillea (Sint Maarten, NA, July 2009)

This post is for TODAY'S FLOWERS. Click here to see other entries. I was introduced to this site by Squirrel Queen at Through Squirrel Eyes. Come join in the fun!
photo by me © 2009

cactus

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To "Why am I here?" to uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus."
~Enid Bagnold 1889-1981

Enid Bagnold was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor. She began her writing career with poetry, then novels, and then at age 53, published her first play.

She was born in Rochester, Kent and brought up mostly in Jamaica. She went to art school in London. During World War I she was a nurse, then a driver. In Diary Without Dates, she wrote of her hospital experiences and in The Happy Foreigner, her driving experiences.

In 1920 she married Sir Roderick Jones, but continued to use her maiden name for writing. They lived at North End House in Sussex, the garden of which inspired her play The Chalk Garden.

photo by me ©2009 (taken in Arizona at the Desert Botanical Garden)

Happy May Day!

"....All things seem possible in May." ~Edwin Way Teale

Tis like the birthday of the world,

When earth was born in bloom... ~Thomas Hood

Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth? ~Edward Giobbi

When April steps aside for May,

Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;

Fresh violets open every day:

To some new bird each hour we listen.

~Lucy Larcom

For winter's rains and ruins are over,

And all the season of snows and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,

The light that loses, the night that wins;

And time remembered is grief forgotten,

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover

Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1890)

NOTES: white crysanthemums from my garden, azaela in North Carolina in the spring, yellow blooming palo verde tree (Arizona), robin and baby in holly tree, cactus bloom (Arizona)

photos by me© 2006-2009