Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

People are weird.

We still have time to mess this up!

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Cole is on a roll !

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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  1. 1.

    WendyBinFL

    Wonderful photos, SkyBluePink! And how perfect with your nym! Saw a similar Chihuly show in Fairchild Tropical Gardens when we lived in Miami years ago, and it was truly magical. He had all the elements you’ve captured, and fantasy “fruit” in the trees, but I especially loved the exotic fronds like your blue ones up top. Thanks for refreshing such sweet memories!

  2. 2.

    satby

    Very nice SkyBluePink! Love Chihuly’s work.

    I just woke up after sleeping almost 10 hours after the market yesterday. Yep, it was busy.

    And the Baker Creek seed catalog arrived this week. I said I wasn’t buying anything this year; but damn, purple tomatoes?? I’m in!

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Very nice SkyBluePink.

    I love blown glass. I have a few solstice ornaments from Astral Glass hanging in the Zen garden redbud. Speaking of which, I am making my annual pilgrimage to Astral Glass this week to buy a few solstice gifts for the family.

  4. 4.

    Mousebumples

    Wonderful photos! Similar to Wendy above, I’ve also see Chilhuly’s work – when I was visiting family in Phoenix.

    Such gorgeous pieces, and I enjoyed exploring the botanical gardens to see what pieces I’d find.

  5. 5.

    terben

    How timely this post is. Only late last month it was announced that my state capital will host an exhibition of Dale Chihuly’s ‘Garden Cycle’. Only the third outside the USA, after London and Singapore, the exhibition will run from late September next year until late April, 2025. The last time we got to see his work ‘live’ was back in 2000.

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    This being a garden thread, Lost in space no more: missing tomato found in space station after eight months

    It might have remained one of the greatest mysteries of the universe, destined never to be solved until a freak recent discovery by the crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The subject? A tomato grown from seed in microgravity by US astronaut Francisco “Frank” Rubio as part of an agricultural experiment.

    Rubio was accused of having eaten the fruit when it inexplicably disappeared more than eight months ago. However, the tiny specimen, or at least its remnants, have now been found, according to members of the seven-strong crew during a live stream this week to celebrate the orbiting outpost’s 25th anniversary.

    “Our good friend Frank Rubio has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato. But we can exonerate him. We found the tomato,” Nasa astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli said, reported by space.com.
    …………………………..
    The specific project of which the tomato was part is known officially as Veg-05, a Nasa tag to avoid the mouthful of its official name, the “pick-and-eat salad-crop productivity, nutritional value, and acceptability to supplement the ISS food system” investigation. As well as evaluating the viability and effects of spaceflight on fruit crop growth under different light conditions, the experiment also offers astronauts taste tests and a survey to determine if interacting with plants in the spaceflight environment offered any psychological lift or otherwise affected their mood.

    The ISS has its own vegetable production system, known as Veggie, and the opportunity to work on it is, to many astronauts, one of the perks of space travel. Rubio spoke fondly of his time growing and harvesting, despite the tomato mishap, and Nasa officials say the work provides priceless knowledge that will benefit future generations of astronauts.

    See? Gardening provides food for the soul as well as the stomach.

    The Rubio tomato turned out to be one of only 12 red dwarves successfully germinated and grown to ripeness in space during the Veg-05 project, compared with more than 100 in a parallel experiment conducted on Earth, according to Nasa.

    Just not so much food for the stomach in space.

  9. 9.

    Gvg

    It’s warmed up again so yesterday I was potting up some cuttings that had rooted so they had more room to grow bigger over the winter, planting out some winter seedlings I started a few weeks ago, and watering them in, putting things away for the cold weather to come. When real cold arrives in a few weeks, I hate it and won’t do anything, so I need to have things tucked away. Fixed the watering timer for my nursery area. Planted out the beets and lettuce seedlings.

    winter is a veggie season in Florida. It’s also when a lot of wildflowers start growing. They stay small, but set up their roots, and after the “cold” is over they grow out fast. If you wait till spring to sow, they never seem to get started. A lot of the tame flowers work the same way. Our spring is pretty dry too so you have to water a lot more if you start in the spring. Spring is also really short before it gets hot most years. I start most of my flower seeds beginning in October and plant them out as soon as they are big enough to leave the packs. Yesterday was rudbeckias saved from last years plants. They usually get about 4 feet tall.

    Today I plan to up size some cuttings i rooted from my uncles garden when his wife dies last year. My cousin is selling their house and my mother and aunt wanted camellia and azaleas from his garden and asked me to attempt it. He did not keep his plants labeled after decades in the same house. Later on I will have to try to find names of his favorites.

  10. 10.

    Gvg

    Oh yes, you may not thank me but I found a new catalog. Reimerseeds.com

    they claim 1500 veggie seeds. I found them looking for a rare Florida  conch pea which even southern exposure seed exchange and Baker seeds didn’t have.

  12. 12.

    SkyBluePink

    It was a nice trip to see one of my oldest friends I hadn’t seen in many years.

    Don’t know if its just my devices, but  the images are shortened  – clicking on them  gives the full images.

  13. 13.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ten Bears:

    “Hopefully somebody will find it someday, a little shriveled thing,” he told reporters, having claimed he spent up to 20 hours searching for it after it disappeared during a harvesting operation.

    “I was pretty confident that I Velcroed it where I was supposed to Velcro it. And then I came back, and it was gone.”

    They haven’t said where they found it.

  15. 15.

    Jeffg166

    I love Chilhuly‘s work but however does one clean it?

    if I make it out before the rain starts I want to divide and transplant some annual poppies I started in one big pot into the ground for next May/June.

  17. 17.

    VeniceRiley

    Reggie has worked out that if he stands on the lavender to pee, the stream won’t reach his front paws. It’s a broken disaster. It’s been raining so much that the ground is like walking on thick wet sponges. Just going to leave it until spring.

    But I have an epic poop collection on the lawn to gaze upon in wonderment!

  19. 19.

    Kay

    Lovely photos. Thanks, SkyBluePink.

    I’m rooting geranium cuttings from a plant I bought last spring and used in a container all summer. I brought it in at first frost and held it for the last couple of months in a 50-60 degree mudroom. I take 3 or 4 inch top cuttings and plant them in potting soil. I have two ordinary heating pads I use for bottom heat and a shop light I prop up on bricks for light. I don’t use any rooting hormone but I might try Vitamin C in water on the next batch to see if it makes a difference – I saw the Vitamin C tip on a UK You tube gardener’s video.

    I started cuttings of a holly and a rhododendron at the Michigan garden in late summer. I did six pots of each. Four of the hollies took and are growing but only one of the rhodo. For stem cuttings like that I use rooting hormone and just keep them outside in a sheltered area.

    I ordered seed – just sweet peas and three kinds of poppies.

  20. 20.

    MagdaInBlack

    Good Morning and thank you for the Chihuly flowers, AL

    Im going to put this here because everyone loves the flowers, and hopefully will see my thank you:

    I want to thank all of you for your kindness yesterday morning after my vent and your most unexpected responses, Watergirl and I spent several phone calls discussing options and ideas. The result is her guidance gave me some clues and settled the serious issue of my job: I will have it. One suggestion even has me updating my resume.

    Most of all what happened was the response here, which I keep babbling was unexpected, and had not even crossed my mind, to be honest. Your response gave me such a surprise that it set off a sense of hope that was missing, and also too, ( could it be?) made my grinch-heart grow a little bit larger with the true spirit of the season.

    Thank You all

  21. 21.

    randy khan

    His work really is a perfect fit for a garden.  It’s kind of amazing how good it looks in that context.  We’ve seen it in a bunch of different gardens over the years (including Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle), and it’s always great.

  23. 23.

    StringOnAStick

    When I see a traveling Chihully installation, I waver between being amazed at the delicate and gorgeous glass, and being amazed that it was transported from, well, anywhere given how delicate it looks and the complicated nature of the pieces.

  24. 24.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @MagdaInBlack: ​ made my grinch-heart grow a little bit larger with the true spirit of the season.

    My apologies Madam, I can assure you that was not my intention.

  26. 26.

    BC in Illinois

    Thanks for the pictures.

    I have seen the Chihuly flowers and bulbs and floating things and huge chandeliers at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, in St. Louis. They have had several displays over the years. Always worth going to.

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    @SkyBluePink:  I just saw your comment.  Thanks for letting us know!

    I checked the images, since I think Anne Laurie is likely asleep.  They were in the post in “featured image” size, which is 800 x 600, and that’s why they were shortened.

    I just went in and added the photos in their natural dimensions.  They are even more gorgeous when you can see the whole thing!

    The orange one is absolutely stunning!

  31. 31.

    CAM-WA

    Chilhuly‘s work is all over the Pacific Northwest (I love it!).  If you’re ever in Seattle or Tacoma and like his kind of art, you can look up where you can find it.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @SkyBluePink:  The photos you sent are just fine!

    It’s just that when we add photos to posts, we choose between thumbnail, medium, large, featured image, full size, etc.

    And WordPress remembers what the last previous person chose, which is the wildcard!

    So I’m guessing the either someone else had chosen “featured image 800 x 600” and Anne Laurie didn’t notice, or she chose featured image so all the photos would present as the same size.

    Your pictures were perfect, and it took me less than a minute to replace the images with the “large” version.

  34. 34.

    TF79

    Thanks for sharing – Chihuly’s stuff is great, really enjoyed seeing his work up close when an exhibit came through our little town’s art center.

  35. 35.

    John S.

    @CAM-WA:

    His museum next to the Space Needle is terrific. Truly amazing stuff.

    One of the many nice things I enjoy about living in the PNW.

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