I’m Still Standing. (Plants along the road in the summer heat)

It was hot today and so there was no option: Hubby had to give in and go swimming with me.
But while the saddle under my butt melted from the heat I noticed a couple of couragous plants still alive and kicking amidst the arid vegetation. Thus I decided to take an impression. Let’s begin with [...]

Riddle.

I’m as small as a pea but not as round,
I’m greener than an olive when timely found,
you should always eat me while humble and small
or I’ll grow out a flower, fairy and tall.

What am I?

Entrance of a tomb in the Valley of Queen Ants.

On my afternoon walk in the Valley of Queen Ants I stumbled upon this entrance of an underground complex that might host a nearly finished tomb:

Here are some workers shoveling stones out of the Queen’s tomb. Others are preparing for the burial ceremony that I hope to be so fortunate to attend in the next [...]

The concoction.

…and when I annotated that it was a bit smelly, I had NO IDEA of the taste.
Yuck.
And I mean YUKE!
There’s only one method to gulp it down: Nostrils tight, swallow hard, gallons of water afterwards. Or white spirit, to clean my tongue.
Oh boy, 55 more days to go.