We just can’t have this! The neighborhood is going to … let’s just say “H”!!!! I guess we are just going to have leave pretty soon…nothing we can do about it. Arny and Sandy say that her name is Belladonna, ‘Bell’ for short.
Even the dogs are mesmerized by it. If you look close, you can see the reflection of “Bell” in the window….if you dare to look.
There she is….Belladonna Lily, aka, Naked Lady. She “pops out” [pun attended] every year around now…along with a few of her friends.
The Amaryllis belladonna is a native of South Africa. When we arrived a few months ago, they looked like any other lily plant, but without flowers. The green plant died off a few weeks ago, and about a week ago the flower stem popped up out of the ground, and today the first flower bloomed. They are known as a “Naked Lady” because there is just the stem with the flower on the top.
Here it is a few days ago, and you can see another stem coming out of the ground next to it. It sure is an interesting flower/plant.
As for Bubba and Skruffy….they don’t care about the “Naked Lady Plant”, they were just waiting for the drapes to open showing the sign that Arny and Sandy were up. It was Friday morning, and Sandy only works Monday through Thursday during the summer. Although they are up well before 5 am when she works, on the weekend she gets to sleep in some….this day was one of those days.
One thing these pups do care about is beef bones. Last night Marcia and I went to Claim Jumper, and I ordered a combo plate which included two big beef ribs. To say they were happy when we got home is a understatement.
Today this dog shows up. Hard to tell it is the same dog chewing on that bone above..but it is Bubba, fresh off a new hairdo.
