Tradescantia, asparagus ferns, philodendron and a small pepper tree furnish company for this pineapple grown from a pineapple top I laid on top of the soil in a planter months before this photo was shot. Not quite a flower, but as pretty as one.
For Cee’s Flower Prompt.
This pineapple is growing on my terrace. We have been guarding it and watching it grow for what seems like a year. Yes, we will eventually eat it as we did the two other pineapples I have grown in the past 5 years, which were the sweetest I’ve ever tasted. Same with my papayas, although the first fruit off the newest generation of trees was a disappointment. I think Pasiano picked it too green. This time I will chance losing them to the possums and squirrels and let them ripen on the tree. Same with this pineapple. It’s so beautiful that it is no problem to wait as long as possible to harvest it. All of this horticulture is taking place at my house in San Juan Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico–a mile high on a lake about an hour distant from Guadalajara. Paradise.
I was invited by Cee from ceenphotography.com to participate in a challenge called Seven Day Nature Photo Challenge. (Check out Cee’s wonderful nature photos by clicking on the link above.
As part of this challenge, I am to post one nature photograph a day for one week and to ask one other person to join the seven-day challenge each day I post. Today I ask you to check out the photography of the Jagged Man at https://daffodilhillphotography.com/ as I’m nominating him to take part in the Seven Day Nature Challenge as well. I hope you will check out his link for a real treat.
Today Was A Good Day! Among other things, Pasiano and Yolanda and I unpotted plants from burst pots and replanted them in new spots in the garden or in new pots.
Here is our pile of broken pots–big ones! We will put the shards over the ground in places we don’t want Morrie to dig!
Here is my newly potted pineapple plant, now in the sun where it will actually grow fruit. Before it was practically obscured by other plants.
And here is the rascal who has been eating my Virginia Creeper!!! We’ve been looking for him for weeks! As you can see, he had just taken a chunk out of a leaf when Pasiano nabbed him. If anyone knows what kind of moth he turns into, please let me know. I once researched it but can’t remember. We relocated him onto my spare lot. Hope he likes Castor bean plants as much as Virginia Creeper! The mystery was solved within a minute of my posting when MLou wrote that this fella (or lady) is a Tomato Hornworm. I looked it up and sure enough, she is right. It grows into a Hummingbird Moth, which is so called because it looks and acts amazingly like a hummingbird. I’ve never seen one, so I think we are doing too good a job of getting rid of the caterpillar stage. One year I had one as a pet. It is a remarkable story that I will try to post later.
Look how he holds on to the branch with his five sets of legs. So proper looking like a butler.
I love his little tail that looks like one of those brushes you buy to clean between your teeth! His coffee bean tattoos.
His mouth like a rattlesnake rattle or if you take his entire head into account, like a parrot’s beak. Fascinating little outer-space-looking creatures that I wouldn’t mind having around if they wouldn’t absolutely decimate my Creeper vines!!! This fella was about 4 inches long.
Here is my Virginia Creeper minus ET.
Yes, it has been a good day. Tonight I’m going dining and dancing with a friend and although today is sunny and bright, everything is verdant green because of the daily rains we have been having.
On Monday, my covered patio looked like this! The water couldn’t drain fast enough and was inches deep.
This odd little object sticking up from my terrace floor that looks like a chandelier globe is actually formed by water that can’t get down the drain fast enough. I think there was a leaf obstructing the flow.
When my plants are happy, I’m happy, and doesn’t this look like a cheerful bunch?
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