by Alice Liles | Jul 23, 2017 | Bright Lights
Well, not exactly, but that’s what I thought of when I saw the driving range at the country club golf course getting all spiffied up and ready for the outdoor concert to be held on Saturday, July 22. And I watched the whole thing transpire since it was pretty much...
by Alice Liles | Jul 6, 2017 | Bright Lights
For us, the Fourth of July is usually a parade, fireworks, and hot weather, which it was this year, but with a twist. We also had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with the Bauers from Spicewood, Texas. They weren’t due in till noon, which left us plenty of time...
by Alice Liles | Jul 1, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
My coryphantha rungonii always surprises me when it blooms, and it did again just the other day. I googled coryphantha to find out more about this particular cactus and looked at some of the images of coryphanthas and really couldn’t find one that looked much like...
by Alice Liles | Jun 19, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
This little cactus bloomed yesterday and reopened today, so I thought it deserved some recognition. Chamaelobivia is a hybrid of chamaecereus (peanut cactus) and lobivia, which happen to both now be classified in the echinopsis family. Chamaelobivia rose quartz...
by Alice Liles | Jun 10, 2017 | Bright Lights
Today is one of those days when Jay Leno would have said, “It was so hot today,” and someone in the band would, on cue, ask, “How hot was it?” followed by “It was so hot you could…and I will let you fill in the punch line. I tried and all I could come up with was...
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