Wow, I love the looks of that plant! I bet the Butterflies and Hummers go crazy for that one, great growing!
Flowers OT
That's a keeper Gran!
Hoya obovata - my plant is just covered with buds this year, it's a beauty!
It sure is!!
We finally got about 20 minutes of rain. Maybe we'll get more. ^_^
We have had no measurable rain for months on end, Nichole. You all have some........it has lightly sprinkled a few minutes ago........not even enough to get the concrete wet.
Sprinkled here too, Gail. Sure need a LOT more!
This is the first shower we've had in months. It's tapered off alot now. I don't think I caught enough runoff from the roof to fill up my 2 gallon bucket.
Nah, Nichole (LOL)
My daughter drives her kids to SA everyday and she says there has been several really good showers in SA.......
Not in my part of it . . . there was a bubble or something over the house, and it followed us to the apartment. If there is rain every time your daughter drives down, then have her drive in this direction! ^_^
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How funny!!!
How very funny!! My son lives in SA also and he says there is NO rain.My friend that lives in Bastrop has been in a very bad drought for a long time.
I have been to Tx many times, hottest place I remember mid summer was Austin. Brown crunchy grass. Hurt my feet to walk on it. Being outdoors was very unpleasant unless you were underwater. Indoors, all the Texans keep their houses frigid, so you go from deathly heat to ice ice cold. I just could not get used to it.
Come on down to south Texas if you think Austin is anything but wonderful (LOL).......Austin is one of our paradise cities.............
It is true that our homes are frigid cold and coming in from the heat is a nice reprieve from the outside. We have been in a drought in south Texas and no rain this year virtually..........and daily winds up to 50 and 50+ this spring. Temps hit 100 two months ago.
Where are you, Gail? We have relatives in the eastern part of the state, but I don't know if it is considered south tx..The town is very rural, Magnolia Springs, think it is south of Jasper. Very humid. When visiting there I made a few trips south to Beaumont, and then to Galveston - not like our northeastern ocean, with it's rough crashing waves, but I loved the city itself, all the victorian homes, the history. We went to Moody Gardens (?) with that big glass pyramid with the rainforest inside, now THAT was cool!!
When I was in my late teens I "left home" (without telling anyone) and went with a friend to the Dallas Fort Worth area, actually just Fort Worth, where I stayed for about a year and a half. Much more dry up there, we lived in the city.
I will be visiting TX again probably after a year from now, when I am finished school. My son lives there. He loves it. I really loved San Antonio, though we did not stay long, maybe half a day, went to that river walk. Everyone was rushing me, but I did manage to buy myself some earrings with jasper, opals, and onyx. Weird combo, but they are really pretty...
Alot I like about Texas, but the older I get, the less I like the heat. I will most likely go further north when it comes time to settle in somewhere!
Hello everyone! I sure wish I could send some rain to Texas! We were under almost severe drought conditions here for so long and under fire watches daily because it was so dry. Well, I prayed for rain along with so many other folks and our prayers were answered ten fold. It has rained nonstop for 7 or 8 days .... horrible flooding in some parts of the city of Daytona Beach. $52 milliion dollars in damages! I am so thankful we are not in a flood zone and our house is on high ground, our pool overflowed for two days but we didn't have any water breaching the house. The news has shown so many homes flooded and water rising continuously. This wasn't even considered a tropical storm! News reports said Daytona Beach got more rain from this system than we had in 2004 from Hurricanes Charley, Frances & Jeanne combined! A lot of folks are really worried because June 1st is the start of Tropical Storm & Hurricane season! I just hope we dry out before any storms hit but usually when we have the threat of hurricanes it's late in the season, August and September.
The sun is shining a little bit for the first time in over a week! ^_^ I hope the weather reports are wrong and I continue to see that bright stuff! We were supposed to get another 1 - 2" of rain again today.
Peace & Blessings to you all on this Memorial Day Weekend!
Here is another exciting first! Our first cucumber! (pretty sure it's a Straight 8)
Lin, you sure did get rain!
Neat cucumber, Syru!
South Texas is much further south than that, JMP.
It is great gardening here near the Gulf. Rare freezes and not as hot as inland. Humid yes, but there is humidity in MANY states. I have felt that a lot in other places.
I garden all year, green grass all year so a couple of hot months is fine. Fall, winter and spring are WONDERFUL! I am near the water. Gail is not that far away, but her weather is a bit different than mine. Just about 20 miles apart.
I don't like to stop gardening in winter so this is the perfect place for me. No crunchy grass at my house! Soft and green.
So south Texas means way down near that bottom point of the state? Never been there. And yes, you are right, humidity is in alot of places, like here in NJ for example, though we only really have it for the summer and even then, it isn't that bad till August. Most people love the warmer weather, but I like cooler weather, like how do they say it in Maine? Summer is the fourth of July. If you blink you miss it.
South is past Houston I guess, doesn't have to be the tip of Texas. That is really REALLY south. That is the valley. Texas is truely like a whole country. Gigantic. Desert, mountains, tons of coast line, Hill country, etc, etc. Some of TX gets snow, and cold weather.
oh yeah, Texas sure is big, with so many different geographical "styles" depending on where you are. New Jersey is sort of like that too, except no desert. Alot of people I met down there thought that where I lived was like one big city, and wasn't I afraid to live here? Here we have cities, suburbs, small historic towns, beaches, rolling hills, flat farmland, sandy pine forests filled with cedar streams, marshes and bays...but instead of being huge like Texas, everything here is within an hour, or two maybe, of another completely different scene. Alot of the state is rural, with huge concentrations of people in certain areas, like up outside of NYC and down around Philadelphia and Trenton. Little by little though, the rural areas are being eaten up by development. It is a great place to live if you like to make money, lots of jobs, so there are alot of ppl moving here, but then the cost of living is very very high.
That being said, I am only here because my family is here, would have left and never come back long ago if not for them. The only areas I like in this state are the mountains up north and the shore area, esp south like Cape May.
I never went any further west in TX than Austin, would have liked to have seen the desert.
^_^