June!

[tabaqui]

WOW, how is it June already? Insanity.
Well, at the gentle encouragement of ravurian (and the surprise!leaping-in of emeraldsedai, I am going to try to post once a day. Or at least several times a week.

Just so you know.

So in my last post, I mentioned the Monstrous Bebe's trip to Florida!

She got back Thursday evening, and unpacked, and didn't stop talking for about the next four hours. :) She had a wonderful time, and didn't even get sunburned! Now, she's had a boyfriend for about two years, and for about...eighteen months of that time he's lived in Alabama. His cousin was graduating, and the family took a trip to see him.

He *thought* he would miss the Bebe, but he didn't - he conspired with her friends (and messaged Cat) about 'accidentally' meeting up with her at Epcot. And he did. And she was over the moon. The pictures of the two of them...she has the *biggest* smile. :)

So that was neat. Also, she got me a stuffed Cheshire Cat, and her dad a Kennedy Space Center coffee mug. :) And she returned home with money! She didn't spend it all. Very spiffy, i thought.

She also said that nobody knew who Shere Kahn was. WTH, Disney employees?

Question for the flist! Does anyone know what this flower/plant is? It's growing Snow's little garden-pond thing. Iris has been suggested, but that's the wrong shape for an iris. I thought a flag, but...again, wrong shape. Ideas?







ETA: OH AND!! Sheesh, totally forgot to say - 'Reveille' was nominated at the Sunny D Awards! Thank you so much, my nominator. Go look - i have no doubt there are dozens of excellent fics over there. :)

Comments

[darkemeralds]

I was going to say spiderwort, but a glance at Google tells me I'm wrong. It's a pretty thing and certainly looks like it's in the lily family.

And Yay! Posting!

[tabaqui]

Yes! It's so frustrating - several people at LJ have put up links but they all look to much like an *iris*. This has a more cup shape to it.

Yes! Posting! Hehe. We'll see if i can sustain it.

[ruric]

Another iris but could it be this? Difficult to tell because the image is looking down into the flower rather than side on: http://www.etsy.com/listing/125111838/louisiana-black-gamecock-iris-bare-root?ref=market

And a couple more purple iris where the flowers are a bit cup like: http://www.fishpondinfo.com/photos/ponds/bigpond/iris7.jpg and http://www.fishpondinfo.com/photos/ponds/brickpond/puriris3.jpg and https://www.pondplants.co.uk/p/Iris+Louisiana+Merebrook+Jemma+J/886/

This one is a bit better and looks cup shaped: https://www.pondplants.co.uk/p/Iris+louisiana+Black+Gamecock/812/

Do let us know if you find out what it is!

[tabaqui]

Whee! I'll have Snow look at them all. Amazing how hard it is to discern a single flower!

[altyronsmaker.livejournal.com]

The flower looks like some kind of lily, judging by the long grassy stalk and it's proximity to water.

And WTH is up with Disney peeps not knowing who Shere Khan is?? *boggles*

[tabaqui]

I do not know!! I mean - Jungle Books was awesome! Sheesh.

Well, the plant is *in* the water, roots and everything. I looked at lilies, too, but the water ones all seem to have that 'classic' water lily construction of many pointy petals, you know?

I could not find one that had this cup shape.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yay for beloved child back safe and sound and happy--not to mention with money, what!

As for the plant, I'm pretty sure it's a water iris.

[tabaqui]

Yes! Yay!! Omg, i was so happy to see her. :) And she didn't spend all her money! I was amazed.

Well - see, maybe? But none of those flowers look like this* one. I mean - they all seem to have that narrow, ruffled petal of an iris, where some curl out and down, and some go up.

This one is all up and out, like a star-shaped cup. I just DO NOT KNOW.
*flails*

And see, if i don't know, it drives me nuts.

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

I believe its a purple flag iris...

http://www.fishpondinfo.com/photos/ponds/brickpond/blueflag3.jpg

[tabaqui]

Hrmmmmmmmm!
It's possible, but....

Googling 'purple flag iris' gets me lots of pictures of *iris* looking plants.

And googling 'blue flag', which is what this .jpg is named, also gets lots of iris-looking flowers.

So i don't know! Snow says maybe, but...not quite. Sheesh! Who'da thunk this would be so hard?

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

Found this: http://www.fishpondinfo.com/photos/ponds/bigpond/iris7.jpg She calls it an iris. It was the closest thing I could find to the pic you posted.
Different angle: http://www.fishpondinfo.com/photos/ponds/bigpond/iris2012.jpg

I am glad the Bebe had so much fun! Cool move by the boyfriend too! He sounds like good people.
She also said that nobody knew who Shere Kahn was.
O.O Seriously?! The Hell???

[tabaqui]

Dude, i know!! SHERE KAHN!! Sheesh.

Yeah, he's a good kid. It's awfully restful, having a sixteen year old whose boyfriend lives in another state. :)

Yeah, that's close - i'll have to see what Snow says. You'd think it would be easy!

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

hee!

doggie enjoying spring!!

and thank you! maybe we'll figure this pond plant mystery out!

:)

*twirls you*

[tabaqui]

She luffs it! :)

Yes, maybe we will!
Wheeee!

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so excited that you'll be appearing on my flist more often!! *glomps*

[tabaqui]

Heeee!
*smooch*

It's been weird and sort of disquieting, how 'not in the mood' or whatever i've been for posting.

A lot of it was the fact that i couldn't finish the charity fic, and i felt guilty posting when i didn't have *it* to post.

I still need to finish another, but i feel a lot more confident about it now.

[stir-of-echoes.livejournal.com]

I am so happy to see you posting again :)

Unfortunately I have no idea what the plant it but it is pretty.

And they did not know who Shere Kahn was, seriously? But glad she's home and you can relax again.

Aww, cute doggie being all happy and playful and cute.

[tabaqui]

Thank you, bb! Me, too. :)
Yes, it is! I do love flowers of all kinds.....

Inorite?!! I mean, come on! Shere Kahn!!

She luffs to rollrollroll.

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

Happy dog!

There should be -- maybe there is -- a site where you can post pictures of plants or animal tracks or mysterious things you find rusting away in the toolbox and get people to tell you what the heck they are.

Which is to say I don't know what those flowers are, but they're pretty.

[tabaqui]

Heee! I'm sure there is somewhere - there's a site like that for pretty much everything.

Very happy dog! :)

[mythologian.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there's a Reddit thread for that :)

[tabaqui]

Hee, probably. I'm unfamiliar with Reddit, though.

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Happy to read from you more {}

The trip sound like so much fun! And yay for the surprise meeting.

Disney people should get paid to watch the movies. And some Buffy and SPN, while they're at it - everyone should watch that!

[tabaqui]

Yay! That's a good thing, heh.

That was one of those trips that you get lucky to do - i'm glad she got to go! However nerve-wracking it was for me, heh.

I shudder to think of what Disney would do to Buffy.... :)

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

LOL!
Me too! Hadn't considered that.

She'll have huge blue eyes, say things like "I'm not a prize for you to win!", and get saved by guys anyway. Oh, and when Angel goes vamp for the first time, she'll do that hesitant hand laying on the ridges of his vampface, like every Disney princess ever. Xander, Giles and Willow will translate very easily, though.

[tabaqui]

Skeeeeeeeery!

[ravurian]

Now there's a dog after my own heart. I was out in the garden again this morning before wandering into town to do some shopping, and it was glorious. The sun is out, the greens are bright, it's a good day!

I'm really glad that you're going to join us in this post-a-day thing. It's lifted my spirits already, just by seeing the counter on my inbox click up a little. People are hungry for conversation and contact, I think. Don't you?

(PS Honestly, people these days. Who the hell doesn't know who Shere Khan is?!)

[tabaqui]

Her doggy glee is infections. She sniffs all around, carefully zeroing in on *just the right spot*. I suspect it has to do with 'something died here' or 'something pooped here', who knows. But the rolling is ecstatic.

We are mid-week of a week of storms and rain and overcast, so right now the yard is a soggy mess. Rolling will have to be curtailed.

I think you're right. People - especially people whose only social outlet is online - do need some kind of contact outside of purely fannish stuff.
And yes - it's fun to see my inbox having more than political stuff in it.

(People are sadly lacking. I can't remember the last time i met someone who had *read* The Jungle Books....)

[ravurian]

Here's something else for your inbox - an unidentified blue flower from my garden in return for the unidentified blue one from yours:

[tabaqui]

Wow, damn. That's *gorgeous*! So lush.

[marciaelena.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear your daughter's back home and had a good trip. :-)

I don't know what flower that is, but it's beautiful. And yeah, I was just thinking this morning, how is it June already???

[tabaqui]

Me too. :)

I know! Half the year gone. Just...wow.