Monday, November 10, 2008
Inspirational
Something I had saved in my 'favorites' for the longest time, thought I'd share. Enjoy!
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Northern Cardinal
Black Sparrow
Blue Jay
Red Shouldered Hawk
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Carolina Wren
Tufted Titmouse
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Towhee
Mourning Dove
Carolina Chickadee
Red-Winged Black Bird
Painted Bounty
Brown Thrasher
Ruby-throated hummer
Grey Catbird
Sandhill Crane
Motled Ducks
White Ibis
ASSORTED CRITTERS
Anole lizards
Tree frogs
Assorted frogs and toads
Black racer snakes
Dragon flies
Lady bugs
Bad bugs whose presence I won't dignify by naming them here ☺
Jackson Collins
The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt
The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas S. Szasz
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
Wine & War, Don & Petie Kladstrup
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
Questioning the Millennium, Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
Siddharta, Hermann Hesse
The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker
Toxic Psychiatry, Breggin
Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, C.G. Jung
The Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse
How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton
On Love, Alain de Botton
Kiss & Tell, Alain de Botton
The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton
The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer
On Being Certain-Believing You Are Right Even When You Are Not, Robert A. Burton
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
Liars, Lovers & Heroes, Steven Quartz
The Problem of the Soul, Owen Flanagan
The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon
Doubt-A History, Jennifer Hecht
The Mind & The Brain, Jeffrey Schwartz
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
The Question of God, Armand Nicholi
Looking for Spinoza-Joy, Sorrow, & the Feeling Brain, Antonio Damasio
The Spirituality of Imperfection, Ernest Kurtz
Descartes' Error-Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Antonio Damasio
A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren
The Gun Seller, Hugh Lauri
Anything by Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Neruda, Machado, & Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
aka Moco ScissorHands (long story...)
The man who makes all wonderful, beautiful, & meaningful things in my life possible.
Enjoying Nature's Perfection....................... & Human Imperfection
HOLA!
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"I am a pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet & viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically & dictatorially."
E. B. White
E. B. White
WHERE?
Central Florida. Orlando area. Zone 9B-ish.
WHO?
Two people crazy about all things outdoorsy.
One doing most of the planting, writing and pic taking.
The other lovingly supporting this typer's addiction in every conceivable way.
WHAT?
Sustainable gardening.
Some saving ideas.
Some artsy fartsy stuff.
Some food politics rantings.
Birds.
Garden creatures.
Cats...perhaps too many?
Dogs...in the future.
HOW?
Lots of experimenting & a little following instructions set by others before us.
WHY blog about it?
To track the garden's evolution.
To share stuff we've learned.
To use as a to-do list.
To hang our photos.
Central Florida. Orlando area. Zone 9B-ish.
WHO?
Two people crazy about all things outdoorsy.
One doing most of the planting, writing and pic taking.
The other lovingly supporting this typer's addiction in every conceivable way.
WHAT?
Sustainable gardening.
Some saving ideas.
Some artsy fartsy stuff.
Some food politics rantings.
Birds.
Garden creatures.
Cats...perhaps too many?
Dogs...in the future.
HOW?
Lots of experimenting & a little following instructions set by others before us.
WHY blog about it?
To track the garden's evolution.
To share stuff we've learned.
To use as a to-do list.
To hang our photos.
Comments are welcome! But please don't tag me, tweet me or poke me. That would be the end of us.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." —
E.B. White (Letters of E. B. White)
E.B. White (Letters of E. B. White)
HOORAY!
Looking for a particular plant?
Just type the name of the plant you are looking for in the "search blog" box on the top left of the page.
Generally speaking, you'll be able to find one or more pictures, the positives and negatives I have experienced with each specimen in my zone 9B, and where I was able to purchase the plant/seeds.
Generally speaking, you'll be able to find one or more pictures, the positives and negatives I have experienced with each specimen in my zone 9B, and where I was able to purchase the plant/seeds.
LOCAL EFFORTS
Please visit the Edible Plant Project! Tons of neat, easy, unusual & underappreciated edibles for Florida. Plus, friendly & knowleadgeable people!
Also, visit the Florida School for Holistic Living located just minutes for downtown Orlando. Lots of neat classes and warm welcoming people.
Also, visit the Florida School for Holistic Living located just minutes for downtown Orlando. Lots of neat classes and warm welcoming people.
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Fruits in the garden
Passion Fruit
Sapodilla
Eureka Lemon x3
Meyer Lemon
Persian Lime
Key Lime
Thornless Key Lime
Calamondin Orange
Orange (unknown cultivar)
Orange Valencia
Orange Hamlin
Ponkan Mandarin
Kumquat (Meiwa, I think)
Loquats x 2
Elderberry
Barbados Cherry
Grumichamas
Cherry of the Rio Grande
Feijoa x 2
Ugni Molinae--Chilean Guava x2
Blueberry x2
Miracle fruit
Pitomba
White Sapote
Mexican Papaya
Bunch Grape (unknown cultivar)
Muscadine Grape
Issai Self Fertile Kiwi
Kiwi of unknown cultivar
Fig Brown Turkey x 2
Peach x 2 (unknown cultivar)
Star Fruit
Moringa (not technically a fruit but edible)
Pomegranate
Longan
Blackberries (Navajo, Apache & Dickson)
Fuyu Persimon
Giraldi Dwarf Mulberry
Shangri-La Mulberry
Jujube Li
Jujube Lang
Seedlings
Goji Berry
Sugar Apple Anonna Squamosa
Eureka Lemon
Indian Jujube
Pear x 2 (unknown cultivar)
Limequat x 2
Loquat x4 (unknown cultivar)
Sapodilla
Eureka Lemon x3
Meyer Lemon
Persian Lime
Key Lime
Thornless Key Lime
Calamondin Orange
Orange (unknown cultivar)
Orange Valencia
Orange Hamlin
Ponkan Mandarin
Kumquat (Meiwa, I think)
Loquats x 2
Elderberry
Barbados Cherry
Grumichamas
Cherry of the Rio Grande
Feijoa x 2
Ugni Molinae--Chilean Guava x2
Blueberry x2
Miracle fruit
Pitomba
White Sapote
Mexican Papaya
Bunch Grape (unknown cultivar)
Muscadine Grape
Issai Self Fertile Kiwi
Kiwi of unknown cultivar
Fig Brown Turkey x 2
Peach x 2 (unknown cultivar)
Star Fruit
Moringa (not technically a fruit but edible)
Pomegranate
Longan
Blackberries (Navajo, Apache & Dickson)
Fuyu Persimon
Giraldi Dwarf Mulberry
Shangri-La Mulberry
Jujube Li
Jujube Lang
Seedlings
Goji Berry
Sugar Apple Anonna Squamosa
Eureka Lemon
Indian Jujube
Pear x 2 (unknown cultivar)
Limequat x 2
Loquat x4 (unknown cultivar)
Plants I will not love again
**To see pics and additional info go to the top left of the blog and type the plant's name in the "search blog" box**
♠ Bolivian Sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia). Lovely IF you have the space for a gigantic shrub.
♠ Mexican Petunia (Ruellia brittoniana)...weedy!
♠ White Buttercup- Pic posted on June 6. Lovely but becomes very weedy in the end.
♠ Spider plant...in pots it is okay, but when planted on the ground...oh boy, talk about weedy!
♠ Potato vine, the regular fast spreading ground cover sold in stores. Impossible to ever get rid of!
♠ Bolivian Sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia). Lovely IF you have the space for a gigantic shrub.
♠ Mexican Petunia (Ruellia brittoniana)...weedy!
♠ White Buttercup- Pic posted on June 6. Lovely but becomes very weedy in the end.
♠ Spider plant...in pots it is okay, but when planted on the ground...oh boy, talk about weedy!
♠ Potato vine, the regular fast spreading ground cover sold in stores. Impossible to ever get rid of!
BIRDS ON STAFF
Northern Cardinal
Black Sparrow
Blue Jay
Red Shouldered Hawk
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Carolina Wren
Tufted Titmouse
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Towhee
Mourning Dove
Carolina Chickadee
Red-Winged Black Bird
Painted Bounty
Brown Thrasher
Ruby-throated hummer
Grey Catbird
Sandhill Crane
Motled Ducks
White Ibis
ASSORTED CRITTERS
Anole lizards
Tree frogs
Assorted frogs and toads
Black racer snakes
Dragon flies
Lady bugs
Bad bugs whose presence I won't dignify by naming them here ☺
BUTTERFLIES ON STAFF
Monarch
Zebra Longwing
Palamedes Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cassius Blue
Buckeye
Gulf Fritillary
White Peacock
Tiger Swallowtail
Giant Swallowtail
American Painted Lady
Pearl Crescent
Pipevine Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Red-Banded Hairstreak
Viceroy
Cloudless Sulphur
Cassius Blue
Red Admiral
Long-Tailed Skipper
Julia
Zebra Longwing
Palamedes Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cassius Blue
Buckeye
Gulf Fritillary
White Peacock
Tiger Swallowtail
Giant Swallowtail
American Painted Lady
Pearl Crescent
Pipevine Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Red-Banded Hairstreak
Viceroy
Cloudless Sulphur
Cassius Blue
Red Admiral
Long-Tailed Skipper
Julia
Jackson Collins
Food for Thought
Larger version of this video can be found on 6/18/08original post.
WANTS
Wish I could say these are needs...
Pepper vine
Tropical quince
Camelia siniensis
Persimon-Tankam
Fig-LSU purple dwarf
Aronia berry
Peach tropic snow
Zabala vine
Condo Mango to grow in pot
Capparis spinosa
Shiitake Log
Vanilla orchids
Mitsuba seeds (cryptotaenia japonica)
Cardoon
Ethiopian Kale
Culinary dandelions
Fish pepper seeds
Burr Gherkins
Martynia 'Devil's Claw'
Deinanthe
Wheat grass seeds
Blackberry Lily
Oak leaf hydrangea
Leaf shredder!
Pepper vine
Tropical quince
Camelia siniensis
Persimon-Tankam
Fig-LSU purple dwarf
Aronia berry
Peach tropic snow
Zabala vine
Condo Mango to grow in pot
Capparis spinosa
Shiitake Log
Vanilla orchids
Mitsuba seeds (cryptotaenia japonica)
Cardoon
Ethiopian Kale
Culinary dandelions
Fish pepper seeds
Burr Gherkins
Martynia 'Devil's Claw'
Deinanthe
Wheat grass seeds
Blackberry Lily
Oak leaf hydrangea
Leaf shredder!
SEEDS FOR TRADE
The list is always changing...if you'd like seeds for any of the plants you see here just ask, chances are I either have some now or will gather some soon.
Just post a comment and that will trigger an email to me. Blogger does not automatically trigger an email to you with my response so you'd have to come back and check it...a little work, I know, but so worth it, no? ☺
Just post a comment and that will trigger an email to me. Blogger does not automatically trigger an email to you with my response so you'd have to come back and check it...a little work, I know, but so worth it, no? ☺
COOL BOOKS
The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt
The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas S. Szasz
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
Wine & War, Don & Petie Kladstrup
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
Questioning the Millennium, Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
Siddharta, Hermann Hesse
The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker
Toxic Psychiatry, Breggin
Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, C.G. Jung
The Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse
How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton
On Love, Alain de Botton
Kiss & Tell, Alain de Botton
The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton
The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer
On Being Certain-Believing You Are Right Even When You Are Not, Robert A. Burton
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
Liars, Lovers & Heroes, Steven Quartz
The Problem of the Soul, Owen Flanagan
The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon
Doubt-A History, Jennifer Hecht
The Mind & The Brain, Jeffrey Schwartz
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
The Question of God, Armand Nicholi
Looking for Spinoza-Joy, Sorrow, & the Feeling Brain, Antonio Damasio
The Spirituality of Imperfection, Ernest Kurtz
Descartes' Error-Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Antonio Damasio
A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren
The Gun Seller, Hugh Lauri
Anything by Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Neruda, Machado, & Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Garden & Food Politics Books
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
The End of Food, Paul Roberts
Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
The United States of Arugula, David Kamp
The Ethics of What We Eat, Peter Singer & Jim Mason
Second Nature, Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Seed to Sed, Suzanne Ashworth
Teaming with Microbes--A Gardener's Ghide to the Soil Food Web, Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
Plant Propagation, The American Horticultural Society
Garden Insects, Whitney Cranshaw
Florida Butterfly Caterpillars & Their Host Plants, Marc Minno
Native Florida Plants, Robert G. Haehle & Joan Brookwell
Seed Sowing & Saving, Carole B. Turner
Plant Propagatin A to Z, Geoff Bryant
Florida's Best Fruiting Plants, Charles Boning
Herbs & Spices for Florida Gardens, Monica M. Brandies
The Ultimate Book of Herbs, Jessica Houdret
Roots Demystified, Robert Kourik
Your Edible Landscape-Naturally, Robert Kourik
The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control
The End of Food, Paul Roberts
Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
The United States of Arugula, David Kamp
The Ethics of What We Eat, Peter Singer & Jim Mason
Second Nature, Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Seed to Sed, Suzanne Ashworth
Teaming with Microbes--A Gardener's Ghide to the Soil Food Web, Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
Plant Propagation, The American Horticultural Society
Garden Insects, Whitney Cranshaw
Florida Butterfly Caterpillars & Their Host Plants, Marc Minno
Native Florida Plants, Robert G. Haehle & Joan Brookwell
Seed Sowing & Saving, Carole B. Turner
Plant Propagatin A to Z, Geoff Bryant
Florida's Best Fruiting Plants, Charles Boning
Herbs & Spices for Florida Gardens, Monica M. Brandies
The Ultimate Book of Herbs, Jessica Houdret
Roots Demystified, Robert Kourik
Your Edible Landscape-Naturally, Robert Kourik
The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control
PICASSO
MOCO
aka Moco ScissorHands (long story...)
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Tagging & Poking. Awards. People who are not punctual. Getting my hair and my gigantic head into my swim cap. People who ruin an apology with an excuse..."Sorry, I did not mean the things I said"? Shouldn't we be saying "Sorry because I meant the things I said"? ...Okra. Oprah. Blogs with music. Socks. Websites with music. Lip plumping procedures. Ungrateful people. Losing at anything, chess, golf, racquet ball, watermelon seed spitting. Overcooked veggies. Cold butter. Living beyond my means. Unkept promises. The color mauve. Brussel sprouts. Non-viable seed. Additives. IRONING. Credit cards. Bad toilet paper. Celine Dion. Make up. Lightning that hits too close to home. DROOL. Gardening gloves. Store bought greeting cards. Putting pillows back inside their pillow covers after washing. Vermin. Fake plants. Tickles. Blotanical. Tornado warnings. Tornadoes without warnings. Genetically altered anything. All things Disney. Stupid questions...As in the ones asked through the voice of laziness--without giving any thought or consideration to its possible answer prior to asking? Cleaning the fridge. Lipstick.
My hubby's smile ♥ The way light can make the ordinary extraordinary ♫ Miles Davis. Beans ♪. Classical music ♫. Chess. People who say weird stuff like please & thank you☼. Keb'Mo♫. Sea food and home-made dulce de leche, but not together. Austin Powers. Mosaic art. Jaime Oliver & Alton Brown. Swimming. A car that is paid for. Modigliani. Home-grown food. Sinatra♫. Wine, bread & cheese. Emil Nolde watercolors. Chickens. Our cats, Moco, Lulu & Frida Kahlo. Not setting the alarm clock for the next morning. Nina Simone ♫. Calamata olives. Rain. Stained glass. Running. J.Prevert. Good toilet paper. Barbara Kingsolver. Opera (Pavaroti!)♫. Jalapeños. Bicycles. Bach♫. Green beans but not overcooked. Martial arts. People with good manners. Good leaf tea (as in the real thing). John Coltrane♫. Baking. Swiming laps at night in an empty pool ☼. Dogs. Dark chocolate. Bill Bryson & Alain de Botton's writing. Home-grown. Home-made. Home-bound. My husband's everything. IKEA. Jamie Oliver. Hand-written & hand-made cards. Christiane Amanpour (can you say cojones?!?!). Steven Pinker & Stephen Jay Gould...although I humbly disagree with some of their view points. Coffee! Bear Grylls. The sounds of fallen leaves being shuffled by the wind. Running under a full moon.
Dislikes
Tagging & Poking. Awards. People who are not punctual. Getting my hair and my gigantic head into my swim cap. People who ruin an apology with an excuse..."Sorry, I did not mean the things I said"? Shouldn't we be saying "Sorry because I meant the things I said"? ...Okra. Oprah. Blogs with music. Socks. Websites with music. Lip plumping procedures. Ungrateful people. Losing at anything, chess, golf, racquet ball, watermelon seed spitting. Overcooked veggies. Cold butter. Living beyond my means. Unkept promises. The color mauve. Brussel sprouts. Non-viable seed. Additives. IRONING. Credit cards. Bad toilet paper. Celine Dion. Make up. Lightning that hits too close to home. DROOL. Gardening gloves. Store bought greeting cards. Putting pillows back inside their pillow covers after washing. Vermin. Fake plants. Tickles. Blotanical. Tornado warnings. Tornadoes without warnings. Genetically altered anything. All things Disney. Stupid questions...As in the ones asked through the voice of laziness--without giving any thought or consideration to its possible answer prior to asking? Cleaning the fridge. Lipstick.
6 comments:
I've had this clip in my favorites too. You are right, it is very inspirational. I've been sending the link to all my friends who show interest in gardening. I am especially impressed with her watering system. City water is expensive, but she has managed to grow all this food and avoid a huge water bill. We have a nice well on our property, but we're still thinking of putting in a couple of rain barrels. We are depending on electricity to pump our water, and that can fail during hurricanes.
Hi Mary! This video was just one of the things in my "post later" list...why don't you post yours? That way more people will see it and get inspired to at least have a few herbs or a fruiting tree...
I considered rain barrels...but that is kinda one of the last things for us due to the following:
At least where I am, when it rains it pours...and then it gets HOT. The temps don't usually go down long enough at night to cool the water needed for irrigation (I've tested large containers).
During the rainy season we would not really need them.
During the dry season it does not really rain as much as to keep them full...and besides, our fruiting trees don't need the rain during that time...and the ornamentals take care of themselves.
During hurricanes they can be a bit of a danger zone for us, as the only spot I have to put them on is right beside our home.
So, for us, it is sort of a last on the list item. But if I lived in an area where the water did not get scolding hot just sitting out there I would most definitely put it first on my list.
I think you live in a part of FL where it is slightly cooler than me, right?
Anyway, sorry for the rambling! :-)
Yes, I think we don't get as hot as you do, but hot enough - 91 is average in summer. You are right about the rainy vs. dry season - when it rains, it pours; then it's dry as a bone for months. We haven't seed a drop of rain here in almost a month now. Burying a barrel does keep water cooler, but you'd have to have a pump to get it out.
We water our hydroponics with a barrel that is buried in the ground. The water stays warm in winter and cool in summer that way. This would also avoid the problem of the barrel becoming a projectile during a hurricane.
Oh, I was trying to figure out how to put the video on the right side column. I never did, then forgot about it...
Easy!
Follow these steps from each of the blog's menu:
1. Customize
2. Layout
3. Add a gadget
4. HTML/Java Script
Then:
5. Go to your YouTube video
6. Look on the top right (well almost the top) where it reads "embed" or "embeded"
7. Copy the gibberish onto your HTML/Java Script
You may have to look carefully at the code, and where it reads "width" you may have to make the number smaller if it does not fit your blog's sidebar.
Good luck!
Whoa, you got a nice system going on with your water barrels!
I am jealous! Yeah, if I told hubby to help me dig a hole to China in order to store the barrels--with all the projects we already have--he'd have a heart attack! :--)
Thanks for the info though, it is possible we can do that in a few years...
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