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Film Review of Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple in 1934 Drama as Marker for a Bet in Horse Racing

A sequel to Little Miss Marker could count on such success through a candidate additional to Marisa Abela or Eiza González!

What about Saleka Night Shyamalan?

The afore-enumerated trio epitomizes equally excellent dancing, moving, singing, talking!

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 11, 2025

Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand

Another follow-up book could consider conveying how space configures from our Moon.

Could it not challenge Moon crowds less to consider configurations such as constellations without Blue-Marble pollution and space debris?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 11, 2025

Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand

Werner von Braun not only advanced space science but also space-science fiction.

Might not a filmed First men on the moon make for happy passengers on Earth-Moon, Moon-Earth flights

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 11, 2025

American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

American chestnuts angle into delicious alcoholic drinks.

Has anyone had chestnut liqueur or such cocktails as chestnut old fashioned?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 11, 2025

Insulated Windows: Saving Energy and Money

Insulated windows are appealing, appearance-, dollar- and energy-wise.

Many businesses have glass doors. Might those doors be of insulated glass?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 11, 2025

Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi

USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection website (https://pomological.art/) lists 1,210 illustrations by Amanda Almira Newton, whose illustration of Citrus x paradisi 'Marsh Seedless' appears as the third to last illustration (between Dedication and Acknowledgment) in this post.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 11, 2025

Grapefruit Ethnobotany: Generous Versatility of Citus x paradisi as Food Sources and So Much More

Grapefruit the band broke up in late 1969, according to Wikipedia. Prior to the breakup, Bob Wale had replaced original member Pete Swettenham, who had left earlier in 1969. Original member John Perry described Bob Wale as "a very strong singer and very competent lead guitarist" in an interview published Nov. 14, 2023, for It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine (https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/11/grapefruit-interview.html).

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 11, 2025

Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi

For those wondering about Amanda Almira Newton, whose illustration of Citrus x paradisi 'Marsh Seedless' appears as the third to last illustration (between Dedication and Acknowledgment) in this post:

American watercolorist Amanda Almira Newton was born May 1860 in Pennsylvania. She died June 12, 1943. She is buried in Washington DC's Rock Creek Cemetery (Section D, Lot 36 1/2, Site 2), according to Memorial ID 154114237 created Oct. 22, 2015, by SLGMSD for the Find A Grave website (
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154114237/amanda_a-newton).

Amanda Almira Newton's watercolors are held by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pomological Watercolor Collection. The collection of 7,497 watercolor botanical illustrations is housed in the United States National Agricultural Library, located in Beltsville, northern Prince George's County, southwester Maryland.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 9, 2025

Grapefruit Cultivation: The Realities of Back Yard Grapefruit Tree Growing

For those wondering about top grapefruit-producing countries in the world:

The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's list of 2024/2025 grapefruit production identifies the top five grapefruit-producing countries (
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/production/commodity/0572220) as:
Market ---------- % Global Production -- Total Production (2024/2025, Metric Tons)
China ------------ 76 percent -------------- 5.25 Million
Mexico ------------ 7 percent --------------- 489,000
South Africa ----- 6 percent ---------------- 425,000
United States --- 4 percent ---------------- 271,000
Turkey ------------ 3 percent ---------------- 180,000

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 9, 2025

Grapefruit Ethnobotany: Generous Versatility of Citus x paradisi as Food Sources and So Much More

For those wondering who were the original members of 1960s band Grapefruit:

The psychedelic pop, pop rock band's original members comprised:
Glasgow-born guitarist, saxophonist and vocalist George Alexander (born Alexander Young; Dec. 28, 1938);
London-born guitarist and vocalist John Perry (born Charles John Perry; July 16, 1949);
London-born guitarist and vocalist Pete Swettenham (born Peter Francis Swettenham; April 24, 1949;
London-born drummer Geoff Swettenham (born March 8, 1948).

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 9, 2025

Restoring the Palm House

I think that there will. be a ceremonial opening, but who will get an invite, I know not.

frankbeswick, Aug 9, 2025

Socotran Fig Tree (Dorstenia gigas): Extraordinary Forms of a Near Threatened Bottle Tree

Native Socotrans have work-arounds whereby they harvest Dorstenia-gigas alternatives, replacements and substitutes in order to hone their famous native woody's sustainable survival.

Isn't it interesting to imagine a culinary celebration of those plants that ingest competitively enough to inspire Dorstenia gigas for the next generations?

What a cookbook!

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 9, 2025

American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

My comment below about the layers between the outermost cover and the innermost nutmeat causes me to consider ways of culling the nutmeat from such a somewhat scary cover as that of the American, the hybrid, other chestnuts.

Couldn't it be compelling to count the ways by which one painlessly, quickly, successfully culls the chestnut nut and its seeds?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 9, 2025

Restoring the Palm House

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

When all is done, is there going to be an official opening?

Might such an opening as debut event mandate open to the non-paying public or open to purchased-ticket holders?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 9, 2025

Understanding Hurricanes

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

Olivia McClure authored the article Turn your yard's low spot into a high point with a rain garden for LSU AgCenter of Baton Rouge June 20, 2025. She asks whether or not "amendments such as sugarcane bagasse, expanded shale and wood chips can enhance the functions of rain gardens."

She counts, per LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station Landscape Horticulture Assistant Professor Damon Abdi, as rain garden-able such plants as:
American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
Dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor)
Hardy hibiscus/rose mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
Louisiana iris (Iris brevicaulis/fulva/giganticaerulea/hexagona/nelsonii)
River birch (Betula nigra)
Rush (Juncus tenuis)
Sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginica)
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Virginia sweetspire (Itea virginica)
Yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria).

Might the above-mentioned non-woody and woody plants make it through hurricane events?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 9, 2025

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