2 Things Challenge: Crown/Forehead

The challenge this week is Crown/Forehead.

You all know what season it is, and you know what was made from these, and where they put it.

Lookin' Out My Front Door

The Fringe Flowers are in full bloom, even though it was below freezing this morning.

Red, My Favorite Color

The local predator stalks a meal he'll never get.  The local "meal" taunts the predator.

2 Things Challenge: Coil/Black

The 2 Things Challenge this week is Coil/Black.

Here is my interpretation of these two things:

Peaches Anyone?

2 Things Challenge: Beat/Walk

The challenge this week is: Beat/Walk.

With the beat from the drummer boy silenced by a Yankee bullet, there was nothing left to do but walk away.
(From a re-enactment of the Battle of Selma in April, 2008.)

2 Things Challenge: Sign/Nine

The challenge this week at 2 Things is: Sign/Nine.

Here are nine signs from our yard that winter is almost over and spring is on the way, at least in central Alabama.

Red What?

What are these things?

They are huge water drops that were standing on a red table cloth.  They were bigger than quarters and just sat there, refusing to have anything to do with the cloth.  That intrigues me a little, but since I didn't have a camera other than the iPhone with me, I used it.  When I looked at the photos, I saw the incredible vertical streams of color within the drops.  You had to be at just the right angle to see them, which was the angle of an iPhone resting on the table top.  I'm not sure I would have been able to get the Sony down close enough to the table.

2 Things Challenge: Stare/Star

The challenge over at 2 Things this week is Stare/Star.

If you stare at a star for long enough, and don't blink, and don't move, the star will draw a circle for you, or at least part of one.  If you click the photo for a larger view, you might see some of the dimmer arcs too.

Resurrection

This is called a Resurrection Fern.  It's an air plant that grows in the trees around here and gets its nourishment from the air and what accumulates in the bark.  It doesn't hurt the host tree, so I don't think it qualifies as a parasite.  This clump is growing on a piece of firewood from the big oak branch that came down almost two years age (see here).

It gets its name from its response to drought.  It will dry up and shrivel away to almost nothing, a brown clump of dead looking leaves, but then with even a small sprinkle of rain, it will revive instantly (resurrect) and turn into a lush green cloak for the tree branches.