Sobralia 'Angelica' is making up for skunking me last year, by producing 8 flowering stems of these 5-6" flowers this year.

A story about an iron weed plant. DD and I had been watching one in bloom in a road right of way. One day she phoned me that the city mowers were approaching it. Jumped in my car and drove about 5 miles just in time to plant myself in front of the approaching tractor. The driver stopped and allowed me to dig it up with a tiny shovel that I had in my car. It lived and grew quite tall for about 3 years and then disappeared. To my surprise I have 2 volunteers this spring a couple of years since the original one went to plant heaven.

Oh my that looks like one mean storm cloud. Seen a few like that in Oklahoma. Elizabeth those ice formations are very interesting and cool. It looks like a frozen Chopped up wave. Moni you should do a photo picture journey book. I bet you could get a publisher that would be interested.

The 4th of July festivities have been so much fun in Philadelphia. Here's the Philadelphia Orchestra playing live to cheering thousands at Penn's Landing. It was fantastic! Spectacular fireworks after the show Happy early birthday America!