Lawn and Garden Show: The Flowers

The Orchid Society had a beautiful display... as usual.  Such amazing flowers!

This one is really unique...

Notice the LONG tube coming off the flower?  That is where the nectar is located.

Wow!

And finally were the floral arrangements.

Nashville Lawn and Garden Show: Part 1

Our annual trip to the Nashville Lawn and Garden Show was a bit of a disappointment this year.  There were fewer large "statement" gardens (like two instead of six) and much smaller replacements.  In fact, there seemed to be about a third less of everything.

The plant vendors were fewer too, although the ones there had some really nice plants.

Here is one of the two nice gardens.

The little "funky junk" garden never fails to be fun!

And this is one of the lesser displays.

This is a cute idea... as long as you don't have a wind storm.  Or it would be fun in a greenhouse.

The second major display.

Bonsai club had a booth again.  We had a lot of interest in the club.

I hope this year was just a slump and not signs of things to come.

Zurura at 15

It's been a long time since I've said anything about my sponsor elephant Zurura.  

My baby is growing up... look at those tusks!

Chasing wild dogs.  Apparently he doesn't favor them.

Easing on down the road.

Review: Vui's Kitchen in Nashville

On a recent trip to Nashville we decided to try a new restaurant~ Vui's Kitchen.  We picked this restaurant because we had worked a Whole Foods class taught by Vui.

It's a small establishment with a laid-back atmosphere.  You decided what you want by looking at the menu on the wall.

Then you order at the counter.

There is indoor and outdoor seating (we had that back right corner).  If it were busy, it would be a pretty tight fit.

Your meal is brought out to your table.  

PORK BELLY BAO BUN    $5.95

Two steamed bread rolls with lemongrass pork belly, fresh and pickled veggies, fresh herbs, drizzled with hoisin sauce.

Definitely my favorite!  I could make a meal off of these.

VUI'S ORIGINAL PHO    $10.95

Twelve-hour bone broth with tender beef slices, rice noodles, vegetables, fresh herbs, jalapeño, and lime. 

This was my choice. 

CHICKEN PHO                                       $10.95

Twelve-hour bone broth with sliced chicken, rice   noodles, vegetables, fresh herbs, fried shallots, jalapeño, and lime.  Himself's choice.

 OK, my my opinion the pho was average but it was good.  Himself liked it more than I did, so if we go back I'll being having a double order of bao buns. 

Photos For March

Not many photogenic days in February... it rained sooo much (as in a new record... here at The Sticks we had 12.02 inches)!  Seriously, we had maybe 5 actual sunny days.

But February showers bring tiny February flowers!

Rain drop craters!

By the end of the month, water was higher than the top of this photo's frame!