Here it is Easter already and once again, Miss G is unprepared for all the things that are coming and going! The heat of summer is going to set in before she knows it, and the gardens are no where near the way she wants them! More on that later...
Easter Sunday is the date for one of the largest event of the Houston Fund Raising season. Bunnies on the Bayou has evolved over the last 29 years from a private party in someone's backyard (it used to be called the Bunnief***k Party) to a charity event with corporate sponsors hosted on the grounds of Houston's Wortham Center opera house. The Bunnies group is not really the circle Miss G generally hangs with, as they tend to be the hard core party boys who gym all day and dance all night. Where they come up with the energy for all, Miss G could only speculate, but she knows from experience it takes more than a few can of Red Bull to keep up with that crowd! In all fairness, their membership has matured a bit (gracefully of course) and their party boy reputation has been bequeathed to the Bayou City Boys Club that produces Jungle Lust, a night-before-Easter true circuit party that brings in the circuit crowd from all over the country. Definitely not Miss G's scene, so she stayed home with the kitties last night and caught up on her beauty sleep!
Anyho, Sonna and G are going to catch brunch at the Cadillac Bar with Miss Tony and Mr. Bill, and then catch Bunnies in the afternoon. ERICSS and TGRA and a few other groups have shows throughout the day, so if Bunnies is boring or if our girl has any energy left, she may catch a couple of those.
It's a shame we don't have yesterday's weather today! It was warm and sunny yesterday, the kind of weather that makes the hot boys at Bunnies take their shirts off and dance in the fountains! Today is a bit cooler and cloudier, with a breeze that makes it downright chilly. If the sun doesn't come out, Miss G will have to bring a wrap!
But the weather has been beautful lately and things are greening up nicely! The azaleas have almost come and gone, and Miss G's Louisiana Irises are already starting to bloom! That seems very early! Before you know it the daylillys will bloom, then the hibiscus, and finally the crepe myrtes. The crepes are about the only plant that can bloom in the summer heat of Texas, so we plant them everywhere in order to have some color other than green during August and September. Here are a couple of picks from the garden. The first is a plant Miss G's Momma always called "ground orchids". They came from Momma's yard, and are one of the earliest bloomers every year. The blooms go to seed, which drop and germinate, so the clump gets bigger every year. They are such a brilliant violet that they almost seem to glow, and the color is so vivid that they almost photograph as white. The second shot is a yellow Louisiana Iris, which grows wild in the swamps and bayous of Miss G's birthstate. They appear in yellow and blue, but the yellow is much more aggressive and chokes out the blue, so they are a bit more rare. The blue ones also bloom a bit later, so we'll add photos when we can. Can't rush mother nature!
Happy Easter to all!
