Showing posts with label Mexican Sunflowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexican Sunflowers. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2018

Fire!

Oh yeah - we have achieved fire - not all that hard really when you have a ponderous pile of flammable material drying in the hot sun., to wit:


Bradford pear root and branch, twigs, leaves, sticks, chunks, random shop scrap - how brightly it will burn!


All it took was a bit of scrap paper and voom! 

It didn't take long to burn down to this:


At night it looked like this:


Who brought the marshmallows?

It is still smoking this morning, and I hope, burning out the silver maple stump that the fire pit is built on.

We had a nice sunset, probably due to all the extra smoke I put into the atmosphere:


Nice sunrise this morning, too:


No, wait, that was a couple of days ago, but it is still a good one.

My Mexican sunflowers are blooming - they are a treat this time of year. They are growing next to a white oak tree I transplanted from my old place - they hitched a ride in the root ball and are currently taller than the oak tree. Cool!