Wonderful gift

Wonderful gift, originally uploaded by angryparsnip.

Lovely friends at DuckworthMehner my financial advisors, sent me this
gift when Grand-baby Mia was born, see below post.
They also sent some very yummy treats for "The Two Square Dogs" who
love them !
They are sending back Square Thanks....

Why I am posting this picture of the un-opened gift ? besides the fact
it is wrapped beautifully is. . .
I have always loved this color combination.
I just like it and never gave it to much thought . . .
Nice colors and the green is the color of the moment but I have always
loved this color combination.

Well I just found out why. . .
The ribbon is the Blue of the Arizona Sky and the Green is the color
of the Palo Verde Tree that grows everywhere in Tucson.
Of course the white is the brilliant white of our Summer clouds.
I have always been drawn to these colors and over the years have worn
or used this combination in my art and home.

I grew up around these colors so I guess that is why I feel so
comfortable around them.
When I moved back to Tucson, Arizona after living many different places,
I remember driving down the Interstate heading South to Tucson and a
wave of feelings engulfed me,
I knew at that moment this was my home and I had missed it very much.

colorful. . . parsnip
music, Part Of Your History, Blue Merle

Fabulous Friends

Fabulous Friends, originally uploaded by angryparsnip.

Fabulous friends sent me this wonderful book and CD. The artwork is
beautiful and I cry every time I read the story.

There was a mix up with the mail, my fault, but all is straightened
out now.

The book is coming with me on my trip to Japan to see my little Grand-
baby. What fun we will have !

reading. . . parsnip
music. . . Either Way It Goes, Blue Merle

Century Plant Blooms

Century Plant Blooms, originally uploaded by angryparsnip.

Close-up of the blooms of the Century Plant

Century Plant

Century Plant, originally uploaded by angryparsnip.

More Century Plant Information...

The plant I cut down was
about 11 feet wide and 6 feet tall
the blooming shoot was 20 inches around at the base and 35 feet tall.

This photo shows two small sprouts in the front and one large plant in
back.
next week the gardner will clean up the old growth and transplant the
three babies.

happy. . . parsnip
music. . . Back In The High Life Again, Steve Winwood

little bear feet

07.11feet-1, originally uploaded by sleepytako.

This is what you do... if your a Kuma-chan ( bear) Daddy having fun with your camera while under the guise of taking care of your Koguma-chan (small bear) Daughter.

I love baby feet they are even better, if possible, than the tiny little hands !

ahhhhh . . . parsnip
music. . . 1 2 3 4, Feist

The End

The End, originally uploaded by angryparsnip.

On my post of 25 April 2010 I started an off and on post of The Good
The Bad The Really Really Sad....

This is now the Sad post.
This is the end of one of my most loved Century Plant. Two where
planted together at the outside fence in my back yard.
I loved them as plants and as living sculpture

Century Plants bloom only once in their life. Why it is called this
is because of "the once in a century bloom"
The stalk that blooms is so large and grows so fast it saps the plant
of all its resources and the plant dies after blooming.
The blooming stalk on this plant was thirty-five feet tall.

When I was a little girl living in Tucson, I really thought the plant
had to be a century old to bloom.
I now found out the plant lives about twenty-five years bloom and then
dies. I roughly figured this plant was at lest twenty-eight years old.
I also had a Century Plant in the front yard that bloomed at the same
time and had stalk was forty feet tall.

sad. . . parsnip
music. . . Breathe, Alexi Murdoch

The beginning of the end

The beginning of the end, originally uploaded by angryparsnip.

When I woke up early one morning and I saw the starting of the stalk I
knew that I would see over the next few months a glorious show of
Mother Nature.
But at the end after the Century plant bloomed it would die and I
would really miss this plant.