Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
2 Thessalonians 3:16
all in a pottery jug.
Sedum a plant I had in a bucket while little so the snails wouldn’t eat it is big and beautiful now much better than I thought it would be. Here is a name, Crassulacean , that I ignored the last time I used this plant in a vase.
Crassulacean means that this plant belongs to a group of plants that can close its stomata during the day and still carry out photosynthesis when it is hot. It uses the stored four- carbon malic acid it made from opening its stomata and capturing carbon dioxide during the night. Here is a diagram I drew.
The taller herbaceous species have been moved to this genus. (Crassulacean)
de Saussure first noticed this in 1804, then Benjamin Heyne in 1812 noted that Bryophyllum leaves in India were acidic in the morning and tasteless by afternoon.
CAM makes this group of plants drought resistant.
Here is something about cooking that I didn’t completely know:
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At high temperatures, the acids are changed to sugar.
Paul Prudhomme (American Celibrity Chef 1940 – 2015)
Then something quite different:
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
Here is a quote:
It is very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.
Sir Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer Apple.
Press on From mentor to legacy: Jonathan Ive Design.
It is lovely and sunny today. Thank you for looking at this post.
Sandy 🙂
Lovely arrangement, lovely botanical lesson, and lovely painting, Sandy. Have a wonderful day.
Ah, you are so good at keeping up with posts. Thank you for being so gracious.