It’s good that a picture says a thousand words, because this post is mainly pictures. You can fill in the rest.
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My postponed birthday last Friday, post-cupcakes from Sugar Baby’s. You can see the evidence on David’s chin.
Saturday, May 4th, the Faerie Festival at Lucia’s Garden. We didn’t want to go home.
At home, we finally figured out how to sit on Daddy’s car.
The bit of 59 between our house and our old neighborhood has the best taco trucks driving along it. Now, really, how could you not want a taco gordo? Ice cream trucks bore in comparison.
Carmen can tie loop-knots on my old running shoes. Over, and over, and over.
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George Ranch
Now, for your daily RDA of George Ranch pictures.
Somebody (the chickens?) dug up an aloe vera. We were happy to replant it in exchange for a chance to use the shovels.
After fixing the aloe, we weeded a bit of the garden. We figure the George Ranch has just as good adopted us, we might as well adopt them back. We’ll be looking for more chores to do when we visit.
After the planting, C&D played in the dirt at the front porch. They got a little bit dirty.
These bloomed this week, all over. I need to figure out what they are. The color was almost ultraviolet to my eye. I wonder what the bees think about these.
On the way toward the 1930’s complex we investigated an old tractor. The loader scoop was just the right height.

3 responses so far ↓
1 Erica // May 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Great pix Joyce. I think that flower looks like it might be a columbine of some kind? Good place to start looking anyway.
Happy belated postponed birthday :)
2 Sarah Hazel // May 9, 2008 at 8:45 am
The bottom flower is a spiderwort. It’s very common in a Texas landscape.
3 S. // May 9, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hi! the top blue flower is a Texas native -Herbertia lahue, called prairie nymph and Purple Pleat-leaf.
Great info on the spiderwort at http://www.mwrop.org/W_Needham/Spiderwort_050626.htm. Some are amazingly fragrant, lovely, sweet, violet-like. What wonderful pix. Did any of the emails get through better? I sent a couple. I want to visit next week or week after. I have 50 more buds on my big rose! Come see us! Happy belated birthday, SS
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