Born Again Redneck: Fairy wands

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Fairy wands

Every July I post pictures of my fairy wands (South African dierama lilies.) This year I decided to post a picture of a human beside them so you can see just how big they are. So yesterday I asked Andy to snap me standing next to them and he ended up taking a lousy pic of me squinting in the sun. So I took a pic of him next to them. Doesn't he look like a hillbilly? Were both 5'10" so you can see that the fairy wands are about 5 feet tall.

Since I had the camera, I started taking some other pics of Robin's Wood.

And here's a pic of fairy wands growing in their natural habitat in South Africa.

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Name: Patrick Joubert Conlon

Location: Robin's Wood, Oregon, United States

I was born and raised in a small village in South Africa and then spent half my life living in big cities on three continents but eventually settled down on a farm in Oregon.

I regard myself as a classical Lockean/Jeffersonian liberal but, since leftists have stolen the word "liberal," I now think of myself as a "don't fence me in" "don't tread on me" libertarian Republican.

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From Fred Thompson's blog, Fred08 on November 26th, 2007:

More Praise for Fred’s Tax Relief Plan - Patrick Joubert Conlon at Born Again Redneck called the plan, “music to a businessman’s ears.”

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"This blog interested me first because of the title. But the quality of Patrick Joubert Conlon's writing has kept me coming back. His style is not presumptuous or pompous or condescending; it's plain and simple. Good old American English. Which is funny because Mr. Conlon was born and lived in South Africa for his first twenty one years and after that spent eight years in England before finding his home here in the U. S. His blog provides a rare outsider/insider perspective on the U. S. of A. He's been linked to by CNN on a couple of occasions and one of his posts was cited by the official Fred08 website. He does a lot of politics but also some lighter fare as well. He frequently posts spectacular photos taken on his Oregon farm."