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Cactus Flower Power
August 26, 2009
Funny how much a cactus (and a kid) can grow in 20-some-years. Here's a photo taken of Deena, Dusty The Dog and me on our back porch:
The year is 1988 so Deena would be eight. Now, here's the amazing part. See that small cactus cutting we had just planted to the right of us? Well, here it is in a photo taken this morning:
Oh, and by the way, the photo was taken by Olive Mondello (a very attractive woman out of my past). And here's another angle:
This cactus has flowers that bloom at night. I got up early to go feed the chickens and kind of did a Whoa! Went and got the camera and snapped off a couple images.
Finished another dozen sketches last night and I'm now at 9,947 sketches with 53 to go. Speaking of which, I have carted my sketchbook to many a foreign place, including Nicaragua, Guatamala, Peru and Utah. Here's one of my pages from Leon, Nicaragua:
The humidity was really oppressive in Leon and just looking at the drawings of the street makes me sweat. Here's a page of sketches of Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador:
And, these (below) were done in the highlands of Peru last summer:
And finally, as promised, here is a sketch of Utah:
Gus Walker wonders: "What will the 10,001 sketch look like?" Well, we're about to find out. I must admit that I have improved over the course of the experiment, but it's not as dramatic as I hoped it would be. Gee, I wonder what Carol Burnett has to say about this?
"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."
—Carol Burnett
Funny how much a cactus (and a kid) can grow in 20-some-years. Here's a photo taken of Deena, Dusty The Dog and me on our back porch:
The year is 1988 so Deena would be eight. Now, here's the amazing part. See that small cactus cutting we had just planted to the right of us? Well, here it is in a photo taken this morning:
Oh, and by the way, the photo was taken by Olive Mondello (a very attractive woman out of my past). And here's another angle:
This cactus has flowers that bloom at night. I got up early to go feed the chickens and kind of did a Whoa! Went and got the camera and snapped off a couple images.
Finished another dozen sketches last night and I'm now at 9,947 sketches with 53 to go. Speaking of which, I have carted my sketchbook to many a foreign place, including Nicaragua, Guatamala, Peru and Utah. Here's one of my pages from Leon, Nicaragua:
The humidity was really oppressive in Leon and just looking at the drawings of the street makes me sweat. Here's a page of sketches of Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador:
And, these (below) were done in the highlands of Peru last summer:
And finally, as promised, here is a sketch of Utah:
Gus Walker wonders: "What will the 10,001 sketch look like?" Well, we're about to find out. I must admit that I have improved over the course of the experiment, but it's not as dramatic as I hoped it would be. Gee, I wonder what Carol Burnett has to say about this?
"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."
—Carol Burnett
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Comment by Odessa Red on August 26, 2009 at 3:19pm -
That's kinda cute how she's holding the magnifying glass up to her face! Amazing how fast 20 years go by...lol...I look at my 24 year old daughter and now my 19 month old baby and think...wow...more than 20 years between the baby and her (with 2 other girls in between!). The cactus is beautiful as I'm sure Deena is, too!
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Comment by gus Walker aka the mapinator on August 27, 2009 at 6:24am -
Hey BBB!
great cactus. is it a Night-Blooming Sirrus or Queen-of-the-Night? they attract bats you know.
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Comment by Bob Boze Bell on August 27, 2009 at 7:19am -
You are asking the wrong guy. It was a cutting from an old woman's yard in Glendale. Debbie Radina called me and said I could come over and take any cactus cuttings out of her yard that I wanted. So I drove over there and got about a dozen cuttings of different varieties of cactus. I assume because this one is next to the pool it has grown the largest (the others are quite puny). I'd love to know what kind of cactus it is. Someone on this site must know. Gang?
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Comment by Sam Ferguson aka Jack Swilling on August 27, 2009 at 10:08am -
Night Blooming Cereus.
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Comment by Jeff Prechtel on August 27, 2009 at 10:12am -
That last one of Utah is darned nice Bob....nicely done.
Frame that puppy up!!!
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Comment by Bob Boze Bell on August 27, 2009 at 10:28am
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Sam, are you Cereus? I mean, serious.
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Comment by R.M.Cole on August 27, 2009 at 1:05pm -
I don't suppose you've ever thought about trimming the cactus back. It looks like it is taking over the pool, the porch, and whatever else you have in the area there!
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Comment by Sam Ferguson aka Jack Swilling on August 27, 2009 at 4:24pm
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Si' senor i'm Cereus!
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