Plant Appreciation Post: Wall Mounted Ferns

Last summer, the lovely Mini helped me wall mount two of my ferns. Well first she accompanied me to Terrain where we picked up the beauties, then she helped me get them situated.

from July 16, 2018, time flies!!!

So after she blessed them with her beautiful smile, they went on to live on the wall of my pilot house powder room.

The leggy guy unfortunate was no happy with gravity? lack of humidity before I learned of my ignorant ways? And started to drop his straggly leaves one by one.

Luckily I saved a pup from him to grow in a pot because I was worried wall mounting would prove too much for his constitution.

in November 2018, the pup was all “cool, Imma grow you a little shield frond so you can get a taste of what I can do”

This leads us to iteration number two, in which I attempted to rescue Big Guy by putting him back in a pot and saving him from his fight with gravity/less than optimal growing environs.

Here we are in late November, 2 weeks after I noticed the The Pup’s shield frond, I says to him, I says, you’re ready for The Wall

Big Guy is still hanging on in that pot, albeit by a thread. But The Pup is doing AMAZING!

Here he is a month after mounting, in late December, growing a second shield frond

 

Another month goes by, in late January, even through the winter he’s doing his thing putting out FAT leaves

 

And here he is a week ago, look at him go! Stretching out!

Let us not forget his wall buddy: literally the coolest fern I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. After a long time of looking like he’s on the cusp of something great, a new leaf started to inch out, very slowly.

In fact it was growing so slowly that our first picture is from early January

For the longest time I couldn’t justify taking “progress pics” because I wasn’t sure if any progress was being made. But it looks like he’s come into the spring very ready to pick up the pace!

 

Here he is last week, putting out a another leaf!

 

Now that we’re all caught up here, nothing left to do but share a slightly NSFW picture:

the buddies during their twice weekly group shower 😉

 

Happy Thursday!

Starting Today: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

I’ve shared snippets of this beautifully written, heartrending, monumental work before. But I’m reading it for the first time in its entirety, and I’m already in stupid love.

“Well, you’re not here.

Such is the ease with which one can silence the dead.”

Poetry Ptuesday – Sculptor of Tyana by Cavafy (Translated by Rae Dalven)

“They must be made so light that / their bodies, their feet, must clearly show / they do not tread the earth, but run on the sea.

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Shoes on Sale in My Size I Don’t Need – Farfetch

It’s Sunday and I’ve found a bunch of shoes I like but that I have no business buying.

First up are mules. They never work for me and always cause friction burn on the top of my feet or hurt the bottoms, especially on the sides.

I love a good black shoe with a little twist, but no can do

 

i’ve been really into an embroidered look, but no

 

these have the double sin of also being espadrille, a pokey, scratchy texture that so conveys “it’s summer!” but c’mon! at what cost?!

 

these are truly adorable and dainty but I haven’t found Jimmy Choos to be that comfortable and I’m not going to pay a dime to be uncomfortable if I can help it!

 

as much as I love velvet and a work boot and the juxtaposition here, I just can’t be this person

 

…also cannot be deadass cool cowgirl-mod. It’s just not in me
I fell over just looking at these for a second

 

these are so dang cool and so not me that if we starred in the same 90s teen sitcom, this inanimate object would take my lunch money and shove me in a locker

 

Whew, that felt good to unload. I’m glad I talked some sense into myself here instead of wasting money, but time to move on to more productive things than looking at shoes we shouldn’t buy.

Happy Sunday!