Surprise nighttime visitor in the Halloween garden!

Oh, gosh...I went out to take some nighttime pics of the Halloween garden, with the addition of some cheap black fake roses and spiders from the dollar store (since my dark purple lantana blooms all fell off)...but ya know...I kinda like the look of the black in there for Halloween ( think I will go get about 10 more), and then eventually we will have some new lantana blossoms!!! Ceramic bunny's gotta go....and be replaced with a witch!

I can't wait to see it all filled in! As I was sitting there, my cat, Baby, ambled into the picture! He looks all innocent in this picture, but then....

He became possessed.....(Hey, this is the REAL flower color...they are orange marigolds...the other pics don't do them justice)...

And started to scare me with alien glowing eyes! Hehehe.

You never know what we happen when you plant a spooky Halloween garden!!! Baby cat...are you seriously possessed???????

It's time for Doozey Tuesday!!!

I love my human sisters new pink sherpa blanket...so jump back jack...it's mine. Do not touch!!! Well, I will share if you are very nice!!

Crassula clavata!!!

I did a post already featuring my new succulent (found at Walmart)...Crassula clavata! It has red edges, and much more delicate leaves than Jade Plant. I love it!
HAPpY cACTUS MONDAY everyone!!
Xoxo-Julie
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Saturday Yard Oct. 2011

Some random yard plant photos from yesterday...finally go tthem uploaded to Flickr and what a difference! Thanks Flickr...
Pretty orange daisies that just suddenly took off this summer in one tire.

saturdayyardoct2011 035, a photo by xmasgirl43 on Flickr.

My one and only semi-decent looking pepper on two bushes!!! Darn.

saturdayyardoct2011 033, a photo by xmasgirl43 on Flickr.

The yellow marigolds also started taking off all of a sudden mid-summer.

saturdayyardoct2011 031, a photo by xmasgirl43 on Flickr.

I have only two eggplants hanging on the remaining three plants. They are looking very sad, and I think I will pull them after these two are off...time for some new cool weather crops!

saturdayyardoct2011 038, a photo by xmasgirl43 on Flickr.

My newly planted orange marigolds HALLOWEEN garden near the front door. All along the back are these very pretty plants that have a ton of dark purple blossoms, but we had hard rains a few days right after I planted them, and they all fell off.:(

saturdayyardoct2011 043, a photo by xmasgirl43 on Flickr.

And last...my windowsill African Violet. It had a few month period of no blooms, and then it really started up! I love this dark purple (they look pinker in the photo, I suppose due to the flash, but they are really much darker)...I think I am in a love of dark purple phase right now...!

saturdayyardoct2011 046, a photo by xmasgirl43 on Flickr.

Tonight, I will have a few pics for CACTUS MONDAY posted for tomorrow!!!! Yippee!!!

A bud on my Golden Rat Tail cactus!!!

I have spent a whole day trying to upload pics from my camera. Again I got them too large, and my daughter was able to resize them, bu they are now being uploaded onto Flickr. I have tried to upload to Photobucket and also set up a Picasa account, and tried there, and it has just turned into a nightmare. To the point of my thinking I would give up blogging. Gone are the days when I would snap pictures, and easily upload to Blogger. Gone, I tell you. I am at my wit's end. It is midnight now, and I started all this crap around 9am. Well, I did take a long break to go shopping in another city...AND that is the good part about my day!

Mom, daughter and I drove to Jensen Beach to visit a Hobby Lobby! There are, I believe, 14 stores in Florida, but none south of this store in Jensen Beach. That is a cryin shame! We have to drive about 35 minutes to get there. We have been to the one in Ocala, Fl...and the one in Stone Mountain area, Georgia. That was a fun time...that store was right across the parking lot from our hotel...oh...what fun!!!

I am trying to get three pics of the Golden Rat Tail Cactus my blogger pal, Claude, from Random Rants and Prickly Plants sent me back in 2009!!! It is finally branching and flowering! It seems happy out in the tire in full sun! Yippee! The flower is a gorgeous salmon pink too! I am watching the bud closely to catch it when it opens.



Today was my husband and my 22nd year wedding anniversary. We did not realize it until we were driving to dinner, and I started checking e-mail on my phone, and suddenly I see an e-mail from my brother and SIL titled Happy Anniversary! I had to really stop and think "anniversary of what"??? Then I turned to my husband and said Happy Anniversary to him...and we burst out laughing because we needed someone else to remind us!!! Hehehehe...I guess we are getting old.