After the rain...

On any given 'regular' day of the year, the Texas Sage Bush is only the silvery, velvet textured dusty green [year 'round!]...but after a rain, the bush blooms, bell-shaped, lavender blossoms profusely!!! And the honey bees love it. I don't know what it is that attracts bees to this particular blossom - all I can say is it really isn't a delightful odor. In fact, to me, it comes real close, up close and personal, to a strong urine scent. No, you can't smell the odor in the yard so to speak, it's just when you're dumb enough curious about the beauty of the flower and walk up to take a whiff!!! I learned my lesson quickly! I sit back and enjoy the colors. That's all. Some think it's a sweet smell....but that's THEIR opinion. LOL It's called Texas Sage, but it's really not anything close to 'sage'. It's a native plant to the deserts of Texas, New Mexico and Northern Old Mexico. If left alone, and kept fairly dry, it will grow healthy and strong. Too much water and there will be root rot!!! I planted and trained a Don Juan Climbing Rose to 'intermingle' with the large sage bush so it will 'climb' in and around the sage branches for support [in the 'fuller view' of the bush, you can see the rose bush---the sage surrounds the entire rose jutting up farther - out of the photo view]. It's really quite pretty when both rose and sage are blooming at the same time from Spring to Autumn.

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MONDAY MORSELS

I took Mother's Day off from being online. It was rather pleasant to be honest. A nice quiet day. Early, just as the sun was rising, you would have found us in the car heading to the beach. I love going there very early. And being that it WAS Mother's Day, Bud and I figured the beaches would be filled with heavy vehicle/foot traffic. We parked on the new Packery Channel parking lot and walked along the channel [there were a lot of fishermen out and about at that early hour!!]. When we pulled off the highway, and into the parking lot, there was something going on at the boat ramp...police vans and a tow truck and a muddied SUV being pulled out of the water. We wondered if it was stolen, and ditched in the channel...or perhaps someone committed 'sideways' suicide. You never know these days. I couldn't find anything online about it this morning. It's just kinda eerie to see something like that happening in such a beautiful area on the island tho. We walked about two hours along the channel and then out over the shoreline of the Gulf....by the time we turned around to begin heading back to the car for a jaunt down the highway to go out for breakfast, the beach was getting filled with party goers and the BBQs and canvas gazebos were coming off the pickup trucks, loaded with young families that were to spend the day with their mom. Then, in the afternoon, while keeping tabs on the NYY game and the Astros game, I played around with something that Erik sent me for Mother's Day...all for fun. He texted me a Family Guy video from Youtube [found above at the beginning or my morsels] with Stewie [the boy in the family] that had Mom...mom....mommy, mommy a dozen times or more...finally mom yells "What"? And Stewie says "Hi" and giggles as he runs out of the room. I converted the video to MP3 and then went into my ringtone software and edited it for a 'shorter version'...then, uploaded it to my phone and set it as Erik's ringtone. Can't wait to have him call me. LOL Getting it up on my ringtones successfully was a highlight of my day ---I thought it was perfect for his incoming calls. Just a lazy Sunday morning and afternoon.