Their art appears to be a riff on the Great Wave off Kanagawa, a Japanese woodblock print first produced in the early 1800s. I guess by now there are no issues with copyright infringement.
The weather has been weird. Thursday it was really windy. We rode up the Santa Cruz trail, coming back was very unpleasant due to headwinds and the occasional gust from the side. I hate the gusting side winds, they're unpredictable.
Friday's wind was even worse. We gave up on the thought of riding. We went to visit a friend who has a very nice looking flat handle bar bike. I'm liking this bike a lot because it's a more upright seating position, which may decrease the pain in my shoulders. I also like it because we can put 28 mm tires on it which will further protect us from the horrible roads in Tucson. More air, more comfort. So I rode his bike and it rides very nicely. Then we went out to bikes direct dot com and they're sold out! It's not fair. So there you go.
Later we drove out to a nursery on River Road. We keep seeing their ads so we decided to go look.
This is a Moroccan Mound. They're kind of cool looking. A neighbor has one that's pretty big, I may ask if I can break off one little finger of the plant.
Roses do well out here. In Seattle it requires propitiation of the plant gods to keep them alive. Out here thrip, rust and mildew are not so much of a problem.
A Hibiscus. They pretty much define not cold hardy, so no, none for us.
This really surprised me. Those are pansies. Pansies are a cool weather plant. I do not understand why they are growing them here. Very soon it will be in the 90's and the pansies will die.
I love these. What could be better than teeny tiny baby cacti attractively planted in terracotta pots?
In the end we did not impulse buy anything. If you're in Tucson it's the Green Things nursery, which is co-located with Zocalo Village. They're out on River Road in horse country. It's a cool facility.
