As one would expect during this time of year, the grounds of the Hermitage Arms are littered with fallen leaves, including those from the Eastern Redbud:
What one wouldn't expect is to see one sort of floating above an agave plant, as we witnessed in passing a couple of evenings ago, and on the following morning:
Ah, we thought, the leaf must have managed to fall just so, its balance/pivot point resting on the tip of the agave "dagger",creating sort of a natural weather vane:
But no; on closer inspection, it turned out the leaf was impaled. An not just impaled, but kind of "double impaled" (look closely at the image on the left).
We have to wonder just what the odds were of that happening...and what they are of it ever happening again.
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If only there were some blood involved somehow, you could surely offer this to a Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum.
Well, if that's all it would take to get into Ripley's...I mean, it would be pretty easy to poke my finger on the tip of that thing. I can certainly spare a few drops if it meant being enshrined in a tourist trap museum! But that raises the question, which location should I honor with this? I think my first choice would be the one in St. Augustine.
I think the choice of venue is screamingly obvious - Las Vegas.
To quote Gram Parsons: "Ooh, Las Vegas, ain't no place for a poor boy like me."
Stabbed thru the heart! I concur, there needs to be blood 🩸
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