Blessed milk thistle

There was something fascinating to me about this plant, growing alongside my hiking trail on Mississippi Bar. Among all the varieties of weeds now flourishing wildly over the landscape, this particular thistle, brazenly rising up tall and straight beside the narrow track, caused me to pause — cautiously — for a closer look. Silybum marianum has other common names include cardus marianus, milk […]

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Wooden faces

The theme this week for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is Things That Look Like Faces. I am looking or anything that looks like a face.  It can look like a human face or any animal.  Create a face in your salad with the different veggies and snap a photo.  Use different things around your house to create a face.  Have fun […]

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It’s called Rock Balancing

After my post one week ago, On the Art of Stacking Rocks, I quickly learned (again thanks to MickETalbot) that there is a very definite and important difference between merely stacking a bunch of rocks one on top of the other and the feat of coaxing one or more rocks to balance harmoniously in gravity defying positions.  If I may quote from his […]

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