More plants! Also snake. :D

[spark]

I got another new plant today. Plants are my addiction.

http://www.sparkcostumes.com/gallery/albums/userpics/P1030153.jpg

This is a lithops! Well, two lithops actually, soon to be three because one of them is dividing. :D It makes me happy.

http://www.sparkcostumes.com/gallery/albums/userpics/P1030148.jpg

And this is my ball python Anthony, exploring my plants. (There's an aloe vera and a tropical pitcher plant visible in front there, with some split rock plants behind and sundews on the window sill.)

[Food Lady]

Is it wierd I find the snake less disturbing than the plant? Sorry-dividing plants creep me out for some odd reason. Anthony is beautiful; I want to hold him.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I had to look up Lithops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithops) because all I saw was rocks. They make pretty flowers. :)

Anthony is cute :D

Out of curiosity, how did you come up with "Anthony" for a snake?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Ooooh...Lithops....I LOVE those things. Georgeous boy, Anthony. Those markings! Wow!

[SengaKitty]

Your Anthony is gorgeous! I miss my ball python :( I'm gonna have to wait til my son is older before I consider getting another snake though.

[spark]

Obviously I should post more snake photos. :D

Anthony is named because the other name for the ball python is the royal python, and that name comes from a story about Cleopatra wearing a young one as a living bracelet. And so Anthony goes with Cleopatra.

I'm kind of a geek.

My cornsnake is even more geeky, his name is Badger. You might be able to guess what that's referencing.

(And I adore lithops. The whole "plant that looks like a rock" thing is so neat. That and the cats appear to be fooled by it, so it's the one plant they don't try to eat.)

[BookstoreEscapee]

My roomie got flowers today. She got one that likes sun, one that likes shade, and one that's kind of in the middle. She put the shady one on the door-end of the balcony, which has a tree right in front of it, the sunny one on the other end where there's no tree right in front of it, and the middle one in...well, the middle...where it should get about half-and-half. Hopefully they'll survive better than they did last year.

She also brought home a tiny palm tree from Florida, which is currently in the little pot that it came in, inside a little pail on top of the TV; at some point she will put it in a proper pot.

[spark]

That's cool.

I'm still learning, I'm sure I'll kill a few more along the way. But I really like plants.