As if I don't collect enough, I now have a new passion. Tillandsias!
I blame Sara's boyfriend Jeff. He gave me one for Christmas last year, in a lovely hanging glass globe. Then, I kept seeing them at the flea markets. Recently, I found one in Cambria at GROW.
Some of them bloom.
Some are whispery.
Some are....NOT.
And some are just plain weird.
These are plant parasites from the bromeliad family that normally attach themselves to trees in the forests of the Americas. They don't need to be in water; they can't be in water; they don't belong in soil. You just dunk them in a bowl of H2O every week and put them back out in the air. Crazy. Yes, they live on air.
But I guess I'm done now. There are, after all, only 8 empty Patron bottles on my windowsill and they are each topped with a tillandsia. Of course, there are other windows in my house. And I suppose more Patron bottles somewhere. Hmmm....
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