My Salsa Pot

Living in AZ doesn’t give us a long growing season but here in Colorado it is all summer long. I planted a salsa pot when we got here in May. I have ancho chili peppers, jalapeños, Roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and cilantro. So here are some pics of the difference 30 days makes! 

I even have tomatoe and chili pepper blossoms

More Laughing With Flowers

The camp sites and fields around are just blooming with color!

Rocky Mountain Iris (part of the Asparagus family)

Arrowleaf Balsamroot (AKA Oregon Sunflowers)



Common Chokecherry ( part of prunus family, peaches plums and cherries) very bitter fruit but edible. 

It’s Warming Up

“The Earth laughs in Flowers” Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think Emerson is my favorite for quotes. 

String of Pearls

On my Birthday Trip in May I snagged some  String of Pearls  cuttings from the tall parents, Ann & Wes Rook. I remember having this plant in a ubiquitous macrame plant hanger in the early days of our marriage, the 70's. I was thrilled to see this plant and to score some free cuttings. I'm nursing them along, unlike my daughter, my thumb is brown, not green!

But they appear to be surviving and possibly thriving. All I know is they like it wet and well drained.