FRAGANCE AND AROMAS WHEN ISRAEL WAS AN EMPIRE

I have never been fond of bibles or their equivalent in other religions, faiths. They limit reason, leaving it in a straight jacket. I know...

TWO FOR THE ROAD

O nce upon a time probably five years ago, some made the failed attempt to start an endemic patriotic horticultural movement among the popul...

WHAT IT IS

Thirty six months ago when we moved amidst what time has confirmed over and over as half wits my only interest was to improve the surroundin...

CAPILLARITY AND TRIMMING IN THE SOUTH POST

ONE of the most difficult subjects for the certificate in the New York Botanical Garden, was Soil Science and Management . All you need to k...

THE WILD HORSES OF MONGOLIA

Excerpt from THE DEVIL'S HORSEMEN page 57-56 The wild horses of Mongolia, now known as the Przevalsky horses, are the ones that most clo...

TREATMENT AND ABUSE TO ANIMALS PAST AND PRESENT PART ONE

Thirty days ago, the next door riff raff started the cleaning of the concrete space where Tuki i Tiki would be abandoned, jailed right by o...

TWISTED MINDS IN ACTION

One of the positive things about a blog, a few blogs, is the exposition of different, weird, out of the wall ideas, worries and thoughts. No...

PUERTO RICO, USA A GREECE IN THE CARIBBEAN

W hen I listen to the local pundits describing as only they can, the island economical and political issues, me anger reaches the boiling po...

NEW MEMBER 100 CLUB Stigmaphyllon flroribundum

T his woody vine, collected in Guanica City, south of Puerto Rico,  our 'desert' like zone,  has been in the collection since 2008. ...

ON BARIATRICS

B eside noise, crowds, loud people, chit chat, pendejismo paisajista and endemismo trasnochado I have no use for the morbid obese. I do not...

GRACIOUS NEIGHBOURLY ACTS

Perhaps for you, it would not be significant or that important, however, for the imperfect misanthropist,  acts creating situations in which...

SOIL LAND DIRT II

THE SORTING ACTON OF WATER A very important action of water is the sorting of the materials it handles.  The boulders are left near their pl...

SOIL LAND DIRT POST

P erhaps you have an inquisitive mind that never rests. As soon as I wake up these ramblings begin to spin. I can not help it. The Industri...

PUERTO RICO PARADIGM PARADISE OF 'BETTER FUTURES' PART ONE

W hen I think of it, I am not sad, but angry at this situation.  The people, most of them, seem to have lost the ability or virtue to discer...

PENDEJISMO PAISJIISTA COOKIE MOLD KIND

NUTIRITION DIET AND HEALTH POST

Yesterday,  was Borders night at Plaza. As I have reiterated there are no libraries worthy a grain of salt over here. The most important th...

ME WET GARDEN MUCH MORE FUN THAN ANY WET TEE SHIRT

SOME may post even when nothing is there to say/write. Since it has been raining for the last twelve hours, enjoy the wet garden. The darkn...