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| Tradescantia x andersoniana 'Concord Grape' - 11 June 2025 |
Today I am going to an extraordinary extra meeting of friends at the Sylvia Hotel. We usually meet at 1:3 on the last Wednesday of the month. Eager attendees demanded another one.
I believe that a photographer (artist perhaps? ) like a 19th century American gunfighter is as good as his last one. We know what would have happened to that eagle-eye gunfighter had he not been as quick.
I spotted Tradescantia x andersoniana ‘Concord Grape’ in two places in my garden today. I decided I would scan it and take it to the Sylvia Tertulia (look it up). For me there is a story not only behind the man who hybridized this tradescantia but also to a past memory of lazy siestas with Rosemary in Mexico City we had between our morning and late afternoon English classes we gave at American companies like Colgate/Palmolive to Mexican executives.
It was in those siestas that before or after our slightly active proceedings that we would watch the original Start Trek which was dubbed into Spanish and called La Odisea del Espacio.
We liked it a lot in spite of the dubious translation into Spanish. A few times Captain Kirk exclaimed in surprise, “¡Áy Chichuahua!”.
I loved the beautiful shape of the Romulan “bird of prey” spacecraft. For years every time I spot my tradescantia in bloom I connect.
I wonder if my friends at the Sylvia will connect, too?
