We Are Passionate About Our Passion Vine (Cheesy? Yeah.)
We bought some tiny Passion Vine plugs at the beginning of the season for 99 cents a piece. If they lived fine, if not we were going to be out 2 whole dollars. Well they have lived and are thriving. The vines that we bought at maybe 6 inches are now running over the top of our 6 foot fence. Blooms began to show up the past couple of weeks but they had yet to open.
Until today!
James went home for lunch and took a picture for me, just in case something happens to the flower before I get home from work. He knew I would be PISSED if I missed it.
In the side view you can really see all the layers of this flower and this is what I am drawn to. They are so different and so beautiful. Alien-like at times.
In this view you can also see that the leaves have been chewed on quite a bit. Our passion vine houses two very fast growing caterpillars. We decided to leave them and let them have a constant food source. I’ve enjoyed watching them grow and hope to catch them in their cocoon.
So the City of Odessa (our sister city) opened up a new Wienerschnitzel on Tanglewood & Esmond this past week and since it has been years since I have eaten there (can’t speak for Mashala) – we decided we would run over there and grab some chili & cheese slathered something or other and head back home. No big deal, just eat a little sumtin’ sumtin’.
