02 | March | 2023 | The Texas Triffid Ranch

Although the gallery is closing (with the last of the inventory on sale until this weekend), this Web site will remain up and active for the next year: the annual update was just paid for, and it makes sense to leave it up for a while longer. One thing that will remain, though, will be the Texas Triffid Ranch T-shirts and other ephemera. Even if I’m gone, Larry Carey is still producing outstanding art: my house is already covered with it, and I even have a shower curtain with one of his designs in my guest bathroom. (I share my own bathroom with both Larry’s art and David Lee Ingersoll‘s.) Please feel free to buy up lots of Larry’s work: the gallery is gone, but that Triffid Ranch poster design should live on.

As for blatant and shameless plugs, it’s also time to note that for those who only now came across the gallery and want to know more about carnivorous plants, the book The Savage Garden by Peter D’Amato is still essential reading, and both the original and revised editions will remain beloved and valued components of my library. I may be getting out of carnivorous plant sales, but those books give a lot of inspiration for a new project to be announced later.

To be continued…

As mentioned before, this is the first time I have shut down a business, and it’s going remarkably well. No investors means no phone calls, no debt means no phone calls, and now I can be very vocal as to exactly why I’m not switching the gallery wifi service to Spectrum. (I have to admit that I’ll miss Spectrum for one reason: the incessant mailings are all on a very stout plastic card stock, which both paints up well and works nicely for paneling and armor in enclosures. Fir the first time, those cards see use other than as lining recycling bins.) The only calls right now are for the last vestiges of plants and fixtures, and all of that should end by the weekend.

The only issue so far with the move is discovering how many items purchased for the gallery are duplicated at home. Glasses, refrigerators, microwaves, spare towels…a lot of the items that could have been salvaged from the gallery’s closing are ones I had to purchase in the last year. Well, the local thrift stores, and friends who frequent them, are going to be happy.