Balcony Scenes & Other Things

Bulbuls continue to provide daily entertainment.

And bees are busy.

The volunteer tomato plant that I posted about earlier has now flowered.

Sunflower seeds I planted months ago have finally formed buds and I'm hoping they will bloom soon.  (I planted lots of seeds but only a few actually sprouted.)

My rescue tortoise, Tofu, is still with us.  It's been 2 years and 9 months since I found him wandering one of the streets in our neighborhood.

A disappointing sight on my evening walk was this tiered cake that was dumped and has been sitting for days .

I decided to take a closer look this afternoon and realized it's a styrofoam base covered in frosting.  The only thing I can figure is that someone used it for a photo shoot and then dumped it.  What a waste!  And now it pollutes the environment.  People think that when they throw something away, it magically disappears.  But there is no away, it has to go somewhere and something like this will just hang around forever and a day in a landfill.

A Starbucks message from the trash heap.  :)

Happy Friday!