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By JM PerezProtected: The Cowardly Monster (Part 1)
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By JM Perez By JM PerezSoulful Words: Désenchantée
By JM Perez“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”
― Deepak Chopra
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– DÉSENCHANTÉE –
Mylène Farmer
Nager dans les eaux troubles
Des lendemains
Attendre ici la fin
Flotter dans l’air trop lourd
Du presque rien
A qui tendre la main
Si je dois tomber de haut
Que ma chute soit lente
Je n’ai trouvé de repos
Que dans l’indifférence
Pourtant, je voudrais retrouver l’innocence
Mais rien n’a de sens, et rien ne va
Tout est chaos
A côté
Tous mes idéaux : des mots
Abimés…
Je cherche une âme, qui
Pourra m’aider
Je suis
D’une géneration désenchantée
Désenchantée
Qui pourrait m’empêcher
De tout entendre
Quand la raison s’effondre
A quel sein se vouer
Qui peut prétendre
Nous bercer dans son ventre
Si la mort est un mystère
La vie n’a rien de tendre
Si le ciel a un enfer
Le ciel peut bien m’attendre
Dis moi,
Dans ces vents contraires comment s’y prendre
Plus rien n’a de sens, plus rien ne va.
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By JM PerezFairy Stepping Stones
By JM PerezToday my kids and I took great pleasure in painting a set of twelves Lily and fairy stepping stones.
These stepping stones were purchased over twelve years ago and as time went by, their colors faded. Last Friday, we collected and cleaned them up, then we proceeded to give them a new life.
– Fairies dance … among the butterflies
– When fairies sing … flowers blossom
– Fairies dream in the morning dew.
The Lily stepping stones were the easiest to paint. We spray painted each stone a different color and concentrated on the filaments and anthers.
These stepping stones all have a metal tooth hanger attached to the back so they can easily be hung or displayed on any wall. For our project however, we used screws to hold the stepping stones in place since we wanted to angle them rather than hang them straight.
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By JM PerezJuly Favorite Plants
By JM PerezIt’s another good year for my Agapanthus, these plants are truly drought and frost tolerant as well as tolerant to extreme heat. Despite another week of temperatures over 100 degree Fahrenheit, these plants sent up multiple stalks, with beautiful flowers atop each floral scapes.
Asparagus Fern is one of my favorite plants. It’s an easy to grow plant, heat, drought and frost tolerant that will thrive nearly anywhere with proper care once established.
Grow them as houseplants or outdoors in raised planters, in garden beds or in hanging baskets; Asparagus Fern is an attractive plant that make a wonderful display.
As we celebrate the Fourth of July weekend, let us be mindful of others, of brush fires, of bodily injury and/or property damage while setting off those fireworks.
Happy 4th!
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By JM PerezHeat-Tolerant Plants
By JM PerezThese couple of weeks have been exhausting, with extreme heat and high temperatures reaching 107 Fahrenheit almost daily. All outdoor activities are being postponed or put on hold until early evening when the weather is cooler. In times like these, some rainfall is much needed and would be greatly appreciated.
There have been interesting finds in the garden such as the gorgeous Cherry Pink Calibrachoa below (also known as Million Bells). I’ve had them for over eight years. The first couple of years they were in hanging baskets and then I moved them in containers.
This season as usual the Pomegranate tree has produced hundreds of buds with most flowering, and a few dropping due to high winds.
I enjoyed watching the Amaryllis ‘Minerva’ and White Lilies blooms. I cut a few stems and they lasted for a couple of weeks in a vase. The combination was beautiful.
The Plains Coreopsis below also known as garden tickseed was part of a class experiment project for my daughter. She along with other classmates were given random seeds and were instructed to grow and care for them, reporting once a month. This seed germinated on time, but took a while to grow. I moved the seedling to a larger planter earlier in the month and it thrived. Last week one of the buds developed into a yellow flower with maroon/red center.
I have different varieties of Pine Cone Cactus in my backyard, Tephrocactus Articulatus var. Inermis, Tephrocactus articulatus var. Strobiliformis, and Tephrocactus var. Diadematus. I have had all three species for a year and they have flowered for the first time two weeks ago. The plants produce delicate showy white flowers with a yellow center at the tips of the joints, lasting up to 48 hours and closing at dusk to reopen at dawn.
It is recommended to use gloves while handling the strobiliformis species as they have little glochids at the areoles which irritate and are hard to get out of the skin.
Other heat tolerant plants in my garden are:
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Happy gardening. Stay hydrated and rehydrate often.
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