Obnoxious Liberals Make My Day
Broad Museum with Shirley, David and Barry. Garden with squirrels, bees, flowers; Thanksgiving Cactus blooming on cue. Death of Camille.
Any Functioning Adult
WordCamp Long Beach 2019. Visit with Marie. Garden with sansevieria, squirrels, bees on night-blooming cereus.
Introspection Can Be Painful
Garden with Leo and Olga and cactus blooms: Parodia leninghausii, Lophophora… Windowsill miniplanters, including lithops. Year to date. Meetups. El Tepeyac. Patrick Angus, Bob Mizer at Long Beach Museum of Art, with Chris, David and Ara.
The Most Dangerous Animal
Fourth of July fireworks. Chapulines!!! About town (Long Beach) with Chris: Historic architecture, whale mural at the Pacific Ballroom, Long Beach Museum of Art, Steelcraft. Cochineal dye. Visits from Elissa and Xochi, Sara, Cornelius, Amani and Donovan. Garden with blooms: Rebutia, Epiphylum, Night-blooming Cereus, Copiapoa tenuissima Violet, Lobivia, Echinopsis, Mexican Firecracker, Parodia magnifica, Parodia horstii, Prickly Pear; Mother of Thousands with its brood. El Dorado Nature Center.
La Luz del Dio
Garden with flowers and a grasshopper, beautiful Copiapoa tenuissima Violet bloom. Linda Vallejo, Brown Belongings, at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes.