a custom-made ruby and diamond earring, of a pair......with diamonds, on one side, facing a white beard.......and none, facing the hair.....

THE BLOOMS THAT FAILED TO SHOW THEMSELVES THIS SUMMER........AND THE CONSTANCY OF THE TRUMPET VINES

The Summer of 2014's bunch of osteospermum was growing in an abandoned clay "big green egg" cooker on the deck outside the glass sliding doors.......the flowers

were so exotic and otherworldly.........blooming, nearby, some Oxalis, whose

leaves are the same, but more saturated, color.........bordered by a darker purple........little pink trumpet-shaped flowers... tipped from their delicate stems.......This year, as in the past, hummingbirds drink from the huge clusters of waxy orange trumpet vine flowers that they share with bees and wasps that also love the sweet, delicious nectar.....