Guess what???
Nothing.
So...this weekend I went to see Disney's "Earth," which is, if I understand correctly, constructed from footage from the BBC "Planet Earth" series. So you get to see that horrifying bird of paradise again. But the way this movie was cut and narrated made it a lot more cohesive than the original series, I think. Planet Earth seemed to jump around without enough of a pattern. The cut version Disney made seemed to have...transitions. It was good to see it on a large screen. But it's kind of exhausting to watch--lots of predator prey chasing, sometimes in agonizing slow motion. And it's exhausting to watch the male polar bear not be able to find solid ice to hunt on. So, it's quite lovely, but taxing. I think that's how it should be, or else people would not get one of the intended points.
That day I went to this "artist colony" by (or in?) downtown Sarasota, where a bunch of houses display local artists' art, and a few of the artists actually live there. The art was good...but I actually payed more attention to the gardening. Sarasota is so full of freaky plants. A place had an annual bromeliad celebration thing this week. Honestly, all bromeliads (you might know them as air ferns...pineapples are bromeliads too) look kind of the same to me. But when they have an orchid event, well then I might go. That's the other big one. I'm pretty sure orchids are the most diverse flowering plant family.
And I went somewhere else, where you can go underground and see the inside of an Indian shell mound. It pretty much looks like a bunch of shells and dirt. Yep.
First, unrelated to all the above, super inspirational cloud:
Pink-ness, and random wandering Kusan
The word "colony" makes me think of insects
Super large bromeliads...which look like all the other bromeliads, but large
Inside the Indian shell midden, at a place called Historic Spanish Point. Look! It's BROWN.
Also featured at Historic Spanish Point:
Sunken garden and unflattering, wholesome smiley Kusan picture
Mullberries almost ready to be plucked, and DEVOURED
Most terrifying (and kind of obscene) flower of all time:
This should have been in Spirited Away
Find the raccoon
And...can you find the BEE?
So...this weekend I went to see Disney's "Earth," which is, if I understand correctly, constructed from footage from the BBC "Planet Earth" series. So you get to see that horrifying bird of paradise again. But the way this movie was cut and narrated made it a lot more cohesive than the original series, I think. Planet Earth seemed to jump around without enough of a pattern. The cut version Disney made seemed to have...transitions. It was good to see it on a large screen. But it's kind of exhausting to watch--lots of predator prey chasing, sometimes in agonizing slow motion. And it's exhausting to watch the male polar bear not be able to find solid ice to hunt on. So, it's quite lovely, but taxing. I think that's how it should be, or else people would not get one of the intended points.
That day I went to this "artist colony" by (or in?) downtown Sarasota, where a bunch of houses display local artists' art, and a few of the artists actually live there. The art was good...but I actually payed more attention to the gardening. Sarasota is so full of freaky plants. A place had an annual bromeliad celebration thing this week. Honestly, all bromeliads (you might know them as air ferns...pineapples are bromeliads too) look kind of the same to me. But when they have an orchid event, well then I might go. That's the other big one. I'm pretty sure orchids are the most diverse flowering plant family.
And I went somewhere else, where you can go underground and see the inside of an Indian shell mound. It pretty much looks like a bunch of shells and dirt. Yep.
First, unrelated to all the above, super inspirational cloud:
Pink-ness, and random wandering Kusan
The word "colony" makes me think of insects
Super large bromeliads...which look like all the other bromeliads, but large
Inside the Indian shell midden, at a place called Historic Spanish Point. Look! It's BROWN.
Also featured at Historic Spanish Point:
Sunken garden and unflattering, wholesome smiley Kusan picture
Mullberries almost ready to be plucked, and DEVOURED
Most terrifying (and kind of obscene) flower of all time:
This should have been in Spirited Away
Find the raccoon
And...can you find the BEE?
