A trip to the tropics…

This winter the days have been grey and dreary here in Central Massachusetts (USA).  We don’t even have the sparkle of snow to brighten things up.  It sure is nice to have a friend like Donna S., my gardener friend, who has a greenhouse.  Yesterday she invited me over to take a look at her Birds of Paradise plant who has decided to bloom.   So I loaded Olive, the pug, in the car and we took off for a little visit to the tropics.

Donna also has a banana plant or two in her greenhouse that she and her husband Don pulled out of the ground to winter over.

And some kind of citrus fruit that tastes a bit like a lemon.

Olive was rather partial to the cyclamen and had to spend quite a lot of time sniffing it.

It was a lovely afternoon.


I almost forgot.  In today's comic Rhymes with Orange, Hillary Price pays homage to the clever and fiendish squirrel.  Click HERE to check it out.  It's very funny.