{"id":35154,"date":"2012-11-18T23:10:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=35154"},"modified":"2012-11-18T23:11:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T03:11:54","slug":"porpoising-sunday-clippings-111812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=35154","title":{"rendered":"porpoising (sunday clippings 11\/18\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surfacing briefly, like the porpoises I watched slicing the surface of the ocean on the ferry boat crossing to Catalina Island<\/a> Friday.
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A visit mostly all business*, the pleasure coming mainly from the 30-minute walk to the conference room at a resort not far out of town where I would be working in the afternoon. The pleasure of walking in a small town decorated in Catalina Tile.<\/p>\n

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An island with water scarcity issues far worse than the mainland, slightly alleviated recently by desalinization plants.
\nTranslation: Succulents are everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Bougainvillea lines the roads on which tourists zip around in rented golf carts, which gives the island a Jurassic Park<\/em> feel.
\nWe hitched a lift on one of the golf carts the last steep 500 feet or so to the resort.<\/p>\n

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Back on the mainland in my own garden, Aloe capitata var. quartzicola promises to reveal its first bloom this week.
\nThat is, if the snails don’t get it first.<\/p>\n

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Not to be outdone by a winter-blooming aloe, Verbascum ‘Clementine’ made the ridiculous decision to send up a bloom in November.
\nI’m hoping this doesn’t mean she’ll be too exhausted to bloom in spring. <\/p>\n

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I mentioned recently the salvaged tank where the Hibiscus acetosella is growing.
\nThe leaning inflorescence crashing in on the tank belongs to the tetrapanax. Beautiful, no?<\/p>\n

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Such beauty bears a price. Come closer:<\/p>\n

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Closer still:<\/p>\n

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There were a couple bees, the odd hoverfly, and the occasional wasp, but mostly just hundreds and hundreds of flies.
\nSorry, but I just had to share.
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(If Linda is reading, tonight’s viewing will be Ken Burn’s The Dust Bowl<\/a>.)
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*One day I swear to pay a visit to the Wrigley Botanical Garden.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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