{"id":70558,"date":"2015-12-30T18:57:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T22:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=70558"},"modified":"2015-12-30T18:57:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T22:57:29","slug":"its-oh-so-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=70558","title":{"rendered":"it’s oh so quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The house has emptied out, and I can’t help thinking how oh so quiet<\/em> it’s become after the holidays.
\nYes, I do have a tendency to privately editorialize on circumstances using song titles.
\n(I thought Bjork wrote the song<\/a>, but I see now it’s a cover from 1951 by American singer Betty Hutton, written by an Austrian composer and a German lyricist. What an international effort!)
\nNow’s probably a good time, before 2015 ends, to thank another international effort, Wikipedia, a resource I use constantly.
\nIt feels so good to contribute (in my case, cash, not knowledge) and thereby become a small part of this endlessly enriching project.
\nIt’s as though the library at Alexandria<\/a> is being rebuilt again, stone by stone, entry by entry. Without papyrus this time.<\/p>\n

Taking my crazy musings out of a quiet house into the garden this morning…
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I am shocked at how lush Lotus jacobaeus becomes with cold weather. Cold weather makes me feel puckered and dry, not at all lush.
\n(I wrote about this lotus previously here<\/a>, quoting liberally again from, you know it, Wikipedia.)
\nBehind the lotus, the Mexican Grass Tree (Dasylirion longissimum) seems to have survived being uprooted from the front garden for life in a container, away from all that jacaranda debris.<\/p>\n

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On the other side of the dasylirion, buds of Aloe ‘Safari Sunrise’ are coloring up.<\/p>\n

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Coloring up faster than the buds on Aloe cameronii. Little Aloe conifera on the left has a bud too.<\/p>\n

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A nice, quiet lull\u2026until the New Year celebrations, which our neighborhood takes very<\/em> seriously. Ba-boom<\/em>! I hope you’re enjoying the holidays. <\/p>\n

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