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Post by Granny Smith on Jan 7, 2014 21:47:50 GMT -5
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Post by Valerie on Jan 7, 2014 22:19:39 GMT -5
Those are really pretty! What's that little guy doing there in the bottom picture?
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Post by BigM on Jan 8, 2014 7:23:39 GMT -5
That is cool! DS would LOVE them!!
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Post by michelle on Jan 8, 2014 8:08:08 GMT -5
Very cool
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Post by Granny Smith on Jan 8, 2014 9:54:13 GMT -5
Valerie, the statue is a wizard made of pewter. He's been stuck in the drawer for 30 years until I found a use for him. You can't see it in the pictures, but there's also a ceramic bird in that one.
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Post by Valerie on Jan 10, 2014 8:16:13 GMT -5
Nifty! A cool terrarium with it's own antique wizard. The one on the bottom is the coolest, but I really like the jar the top one is in, too.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jan 11, 2014 21:34:22 GMT -5
I like that vase, too. It's an iron frame and the glass was hand-blown inside it, so it bulges out between the wires. I had a test tube in an iron stand that matched the vase, so I filled it with moss and water, topped it with more moss, and set a plant on top of it. It keeps the humidity up in the vase so I shouldn't need to water as often.
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Post by Valerie on Jan 11, 2014 23:41:40 GMT -5
My mom used to grow air ferns when I was a kid.
There was this one kind that grew wild in the woods in Central FL, but they were hard to get to. There was a state park with a boardwalk where we used to go a lot. Mama always wanted Daddy to climb up on the rail and snag her some air plants off the trees, but he never would. You get in big trouble if they catch you taking plants from those places.
We have these resurrection ferns that grow on stuff here. When the weather is dry, they look all brown and shriveled and dead. Soon as it rains, they pop out all green and lush. They grown on the top edges of tree branches, and even on awnings and stuff.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jan 12, 2014 15:29:09 GMT -5
I had a little one of those resurrection ferns once - around 40 years ago! I put it in a tiny terra cotta pot, surrounded by moss, and everybody thought I grew it. It was the only plant in my house that actually looked alive. I wonder whatever happened to it?
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