I put in a 1″ outer diameter water pipe for scale.
and here’s one of my kitteh sleeping, because he has such a sweet face in that mode. 
I put in a 1″ outer diameter water pipe for scale.
and here’s one of my kitteh sleeping, because he has such a sweet face in that mode.
Went sniffing about for images of ‘4 petaled white ground cover’ and came up with white rockcress?
Kitteh kyoot!
I think you have nailed it, Chondrite. White rockcress. We asked at Lowe’s yesterday and they drew a blank. But yep. I’ll tell Jane.
Yes, those blossoms are clearly a 4-petaled brassica (cabbage family), but a bit too large for sweet alyssum. I was checking out one of those a couple hours ago.
Awwwwwww . . .Sweet kitteh. I love how cute he curls his front paws. When we go nite-nites, my 18-pound fat(cat)boy insists on trying to sleep on my head.
Have images of small Harley parked on your head. Probably purrs like one, too 😀
In my book, the trophy for the most resonant purr has to go to my angel kitty Jett, who I lost to diabetes in 2009. His designated sleeping place was where the unused pillow on my bed wasn’t. His purr would rumble around in the bed springs and resonate beautifully. I could half wake in the night, reach up my hand, snuggle my knuckles against his fur and have that resonant purr lull me back to sleep. When I had an emergency appendectomy back in 2001, I remember waking up in the middle of the night in the hospital, putting my hand up and not finding him there. Woke me completely up. Then I realized where I was and why he wasn’t there, and really, really missed him.
Sei is the gentlest, most timid fellow, but he stands up to Shu on everything but food—Shu would kill for food, and Sei believes food will eventually happen, because it always does. He gets tummy upset if he has to fight over food, so I give him kibble at night, in my room, and he is quite happy. The boys scrap and chase, and wash each other’s ears. For some reason Sei has now claimed the highest perch on the cat tree as a sleeping spot, and this has been Shu’s. Because of the way the thing is structured, Shu can’t get up there to push him off, so the gentle fluffball has outfoxed the jungle cat at least in this.
Another possible white 4 petal ground cover is alyssum. Here on the coast where we don’t freeze they’ll last a few years, but they are an annual where it freezes and they readily reseed. Its one of my favorites!
Off-Topic but On Science:
Tim Blais, the young astrophysicist musician behind the A Capella Science music and videos on YouTube, announced today he’s starting a longer-format discussion of science topics and interviews.
Check for “Science Life” in your favorite podcast catcher (iTunes, etc.). He’s also posting these to his YouTube A Capella Science channel.
His first interview is with astrophysicist / astronomer Dr. Jaymie Matthews. Dr. Matthews mentioned a science fiction book, as well as his undergraduate experience, and his recent research. Pretty cool. (I wish he’d said the author and title of the SF book.)
Looks like alyssum. It will reseed freely every year if there’s little competition for space, the white doing better than the lavender. Moss Rose and Snapdragons reseed too in my annual bed if you don’t cut the flowers.
We have abundant alyssum—has gone feral in the pond area, white, purple and lavender. But this is different. Note the 1-inch pipe. The flower on these is 4-5 x larger than the alyssum flowers. I think ‘white rockcress’. Pic on the web looks just like it.