More Blooming Things

We've been here in Hemet for two weeks now. We have just over two weeks before we head for home, and in three weeks, we will be home. I'm more than ready, but not really yearning for it, if you can catch the difference between the two. Our time here is going fast. The weather has turned wet, and if one can believe the forecast, we're in for a wet week. Oh yay.

When we arrived here, and I got back on the Fitbit mill, I showed you every blooming thing in the park. At this point, I've pretty much taken a picture of everything there is to see. Two weeks on, things are starting to change and there are more blooming things...or the ones already blooming have matured, and so I have some different things to show you. This succulent, for example. I probably know its name, but it isn't coming to mind.

The roses are beginning to bloom. Here's the first one I've seen that is fully opened.

Here's an interesting cactus. Sometimes with cactus, it's hard to tell what their flowers are going to look like. I have a feeling this one is going to open some more before it's finished.

Here's a little barrel cactus.

You might remember this one. It was in one of the first posts I showed you when I started walking around here, and there was just this one flower.

Now, look at it.

Yesterday I noticed there are a few plants blooming where they shouldn't. It seems as if residents who have come and gone have left potted things behind that took root and grew up, entangling themselves in the hedges that grow here full time. There are lots of potted geraniums around, but this one appears to be growing in the hedge at the rear of one of the spaces.

And then there's this one whose name I don't know...also growing from one of the hedges.

By now I've shown you most of the yard art and signs, but here are a few I missed. This is a bird made from a rake.

This one is a little hard to see...it's two ants swinging in a swing set. Their bodies are made from rocks.

And then there's this one...know the feeling.

And this one.

I walked by this one many times before I noticed what it said. It's a little faded and hard to read. Can you see it?

It says: "One nice person and one old goat lives here."

Speaking of old goats...when I got back to the RV, he was sitting outside replacing the shock absorbers on the truck.

He's never really happy unless he's fixing something. If somehow by magic things became indestructible and there was nothing left to fix, I think it would be like Superman and kryptonite. He'd just fade away.

Today we're meeting our friends Bill and Lenelda at a winery for some wine tasting and probably some lunch. Also, Lenelda wants to stop off to see Temecula Quilt Co. Heck, I'll go back any time! Today I'll look for those ruler boxes so many of y'all mentioned. I didn't see them in the store, but they were online. Maybe I'll see them today. Also, I want to peruse her patterns more closely. One can never have too many PINS (Patterns I Never Started).