Red Powder Puff Plants

This gallery contains 2 images. This looks like a Koosh ball from the 1990s, or a sea urchin dyed pink — but it is actually a (Red) Powder Puff Plant. My first thought was, doesn’t the flower feel spiky? Apparently the middle is, but the outer parts are not. My second thought was, doesn’t the supporting plant underneath look like a little green man lifting the flower high above his head, almost like a cheerleader?

My Review of DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

photo credit: Dreamworks

Given that 2014 is the Year of the Horse, I guess that it is appropriate that I do a movie/DVD review of one (even if it’s technically a few weeks too early). DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is an original story that offers a breathtaking narrative about the wild horses of the Old West, and how one of them, an unnamed and untamed Kiger stallion, made his mark in history.

I love horses — both the real (the most memorable being the legendary “Queen-of-the-Fillies” filly Ruffian and the unbeaten (in-all-25-races) Australian mare Black Caviar) and the fictional ones like Black Beauty and the Black Stallion. The introductory IMAX-like aerial sequence that takes the viewer from rushing rapids carving deep waterways through the vast and majestic heart of the Grand Canyon, to forests teeming with trees, snow-capped mountains, and the thunderous ovation of equine hooves on the open plains, made me determined to see Spirit on the big screen.