Gag Me with a Chainsaw!!!!!!!

So, I'm off on my usual AM walk and I'm hit as I step out on the porch with a STENCH! Something large has been dead for a while, or at least smells like it. I go "hunting" for the source and find it. It's a rather pretty Cally Lily-like blossom!
It's one of my Amorophallus species, albus(which explains the WHite blossom;>). You've seen it's "Big Sister" every time one of them blooms...the giant Pink Calla. It's the 1st of my collection to reach blooming size. The Japanese use riverii and bulbiferii to make Konnjacku cakes and Shirataki Noodles(my personal fav). One of many weird plants in my yard(or house. No Amorphallus beyond seedlings allowed inside, for OBVIOUS reasons;>!).
Cheers,
Pat

Nesting....

There's something about a cold, wet, dark day that makes you put on the kettle,pour a cuppa and either curl up with a good book or video. Today I went for an old fav, the Anime series 'Hime, Hime'(Princess, Princess). This is one of those culturally dissonant productions but as someone whose grown up in so many different ones, I tend to like those that certainly most Americans don't and this is one of them;>
It's the story of Touru, an orphan teen who goes to an all boy's school. To cover his expenses, he takes a job as a "Princess". These are young "pretty" boys who dress up and act as girls as so to make the male students act like "gentlemen". A premise that wouldn't work on SO MANY LEVELS in America;>
Strangely sweet, funny and, obviously twisted. A good series for a dreary day!
Cheers,
Pat