Wonderful World of Victoria

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I love the picture on the left. It's one of my favorites recently. The colors are just so bright and cheerful.

You'll see Victoria on the right with a bucket of stones next to her. She has so much fun with them. Who knew? She takes the stones out of the bucket and makes rings around the flowers. Then she takes the stones away and puts them back in the bucket. We repeat this operation for various flowers on different nights. So far none of the flowers have suffered from being ringed by Victoria.

I have to grin when I see this picture. That's Victoria's flower. We were at Lowe's. She insisted that she had to have that flower. She wouldn't give it up, even at the checkout counter. Hard to get her to loosen her grip long enough for the clerk to scan it in.

I did manage to convince here to leave the flower in the car while we went into the restaurant to have lunch. I can't remember exactly how, but it worked. The flower remained in the car.

We did get it planted too... before it died. I think that was the calibrachoa(sp?). It's planted to the left of the garage next to the hibiscus (which I am happy to report has survived the winter and is growing to my surprise).