Pomegranates

My photos are blurry for this (it kept focusing on the leaves instead of on the flowers and fruit), but here are the hopeful pomegranate flowers and fruit in my backyard. The bush/tree is a pygmy, but it's getting pretty tall. It flowered earlier this year and all the blossoms fell off when it rained. This time they are here to stay and I can't wait to taste the fruit - YUM!

MPD?

Okay. It didn't occur to me until a bit after posting the Zzzzzzzz message about my dream bedroom from Ikea that I was just like the dude in fight club. Yikes. I hope my personalities are splitting yet! ;)

Riff Ram Bah Zoo - Give 'Em Hell - TCU!

Well, since this is MY random site, here's my post for today. It's a link to a Sports Illustrated article about TCU. I was surprised at how much I agreed with it.

Road to Respect

Here's an excerpt:
Yet if the Horned Frogs knock off the Longhorns this weekend, the story will undoubtedly be that of a "non-BCS" team "stunning" a "BCS" team, and how the victory might help little 'ol TCU "crash" one of the major bowls.

Never mind that the two schools played in the same conference for 72 years. Or that TCU, which opened its season last week with a 27-0 rout of Baylor, currently carries a longer winning streak against Big 12 teams (five games) than its Big 12 adversary. Or that the Horned Frogs' defense held Texas Tech's notoriously high-octane offense to 28 fewer points last year (in a 12-3 win) than did the 'Horns (35-31). Or that TCU has had nearly as many 10-win seasons this decade (five) as Texas (six).

Riff Ram Bah Zoo!

New banana babies

Alright. After giving one banana child away, three more have popped up! So, I now have six banana trees. The one on the very left is the third oldest baby, then the little one with the pretty light green leaf, then the little baby one just barely popping out of the ground is the newest addition. They are loving that we have rain again. Of course, so am I. So much less watering.

I don't know how long these will last, but last year they were alive until November or December, I think. A good frost or ice forces them into hibernation until early spring!

Rain Lily and other Blooms

Here's my rain lily - finally! This thing does not bloom often, but it has bloomed three times, that I know of, in my yard! This is one of my favorite blooms, although I didn't think it bloomed in the summer time. Also, it doesn't usually bloom when we haven't had rain - I've been watering, but in the past that hasn't done the trick. Anyway, if you click on the picture to make it super big you can see the little insects staring at it in amazement! ;)

Also, this other one is my Autumn Joy Sedum which is starting to bloom already. I'll try to take pictures of it when it turns to this gorgeous dark magenta color.

Spider Babies!

Okay, you can't see them, but they are in there. This is the sack of babies that appeared after Taxi the Spider Guard Mom went back to her normal size. I don't know where she is now, but I'm pretty sure this is hers.

It's hanging between the overhang of the sunroom and the west side window of Mom's bedroom. When I told her that a spider lived between her windows, she was not happy. I told her that she should be since they eat so many insects!

Here's a link to the kind of spider this is: http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/spiders_scorpion/garden.cfm.

Argiope aurantia also known as the yellow spider or the writing spider.