Pictures Taken By you...

[Janine]

I finally was able to access my files on disks and transfer them to my new hard drive; hurrah! I spend hours last night in organizing my photos from years ago. I finally found all of my garden photos from about 5 yrs back. Here are some of my favorite closeups. I don't have the best camera, and it is old now (I need a new one with greater pixels), but I think it took fairly good closeups, at the time.

I loved your closeup shots, Claes and the all the photos on the last page were wonderful. I must go through this entire thread one of these days to view all the photos. I know I have missed much. Claes, yeah, I think that Lemar really likes you...hummm...I agree with Virgil, I won't go there either...

Here are mostly closeups; I uploaded an entire Garden album in my profile page so these are a sampling. Please feel free to visit my page and view the entire album.


Nearly perfect pink lily bloom




Balloon Flower




Big Pink Hibiscus



Horizon Lily




Horizon Lily, Lemon lily, and New Guinea Impatients,sedum (forground).

[ClaesGefvenberg]

In the wild they can be lethal, but most species will just make you sick. The frogs don't produce their own poison, though, it comes from the food they eat in their natural habitat.

Yep. They somehow use the poison from the insects they eat to make themselves dangerous, so it's all about what kind of insects they devour. Still, those blighters have to be handled with gloves.

Claes, yeah, I think that Lemar really likes you...hummm...I agree with Virgil, I won't go there either...

No worries. It's not me in the picture: I was at the other side of the camera, laughing my head off together with the rest of the crowd.

Hey: Lovely flowers...

/Claes

[papayahed]

Pretty Horizon Liliys Janine. I miss my garden, The first year in my condo I planted some Iris bulbs, they grew huge. My neighbors thought they were fake at first.

[Janine]

Pretty Horizon Liliys Janine. I miss my garden, The first year in my condo I planted some Iris bulbs, they grew huge. My neighbors thought they were fake at first.

Thanks, papaya, this reminds me of a funny story. I was in the craftstore one day and they had these busy flowers with big blossoms - peonies. They did indeed look very realistic and the lady standing next to me confessed that she plopped them into her garden each year and people did think they were real blooms. Now your case is the opposite - how funny! You must have given them lots of fertilizer. I bet they were pretty. I grow iris' also, and find them easy to take care of. Unfortunately that Horizon Lily bit the dust eventually. I think something ate it, from the bulb and roots; it just disappeared after about 5 yrs. I loved that one best and I am not an orange person, but the shade was so striking when it bloomed. It did remind of of the Horizon at sunset.

Thanks Claes, I love to photograph flowers and scenery. I like closeups but I do need a better camera.

I would be laughing my head off too. Once a white domestic goose, who lived on the lake in back of my house, and I nicknamed "Radar", got a bit too friendly with me one day. I kept knocking him on the beak and saying 'now that is enough of that'. It was embarrassing, but so funny. I went in the house and told my family - "I think Radar wants to mate with me!" Ususally, he was very docile and comical, but this day his hormones must have been running overtime. Shortly after that, he stalked away to find a nice female of his own species. He never attempted that action again with me.

[TheFifthElement]

Scary (slightly blurry!) pink clouds

[Niamh]

Janine, those flowers are lovely! Shame those star lilies are the only flower whose pollen i have an allergy too.

Fifth that sky is amazing! but you know what they say! "red sky at night, Shepards Delight. Red Sky in the morning Shepards warning." what this dusk or dawn?

[papayahed]

Does anybody know what kind of bug this is??

[Niamh]

Cant say i do....

[djy78usa]

it looks like a cicada

[Niamh]

Is that what they look like? i've always wondered...

[papayahed]

The darn thing was huge!! It asked me if I wanted to get breakfast this morning when I went out to the porch.

[Niamh]

The darn thing was huge!! It asked me if I wanted to get breakfast this morning when I went out to the porch.

[djy78usa]

I watched "Bad Santa" earlier, and figured I had to share this picture. Its my buddy Miguel... erm, I mean Santa, at a Christmas Party.

[Idril]

Your friend looks really...exhausted...there djy78usa. It must've been all those...wishes that wore him out.

Janine that looks like such a beautiful garden. I just love gardens but I never have the energy to have a big one myself, it's always so dry and so hot here in the summers, I would have to be out there every single day and I just don't have that kind of commitment.

I've always been careful not to post pictures of my boys, mostly out of respect for them and their privacy but they're older now and have given me permission. I think I have posted a few of them but here is a formal introduction:

Isaac, 15, my emo son at the Pow Wow:



And here's a picture of him getting his remicade treatment, which he gets as part of his treatment for Crohn's disease. He gets this infusions every 6 weeks, it's become such a huge part of our lives and I realized I didn't have any pictures. He looks so sad in that picture but he's just drugged up, they fill him full of benadryl to stave off an alergic reaction so he's always out of it for a few minutes, then he shakes it off and we sit around, reading, watching tv and eating for the next 4 hours.



Sam, 13, the writer...and he has great taste in music, just like his mom! He's the baby although he's actually quite a bit bigger than Isaac but that's because Isaac has Crohn's issues and has hardly grown since about 6th grade. Luckily I think he's hit a remission and will finally grow. This picture was taken the same day as the Pow Wow, at a little Mandan Earth Lodge village a little west of the Pow Wow grounds:



And here is a picture of he and I standing in line waiting to get in to see Barak Obama speak in Grand Forks. It was freezing that day and the line was ridiculous...and Sam looks like this in every single picture that was taken that day.



And a nice one of the two of them at my parents' cabin, Isaac wearing his "pimp hat"



And another picture of the hat, this time with a different inhabitant,

[TheFifthElement]

Fifth that sky is amazing! but you know what they say! "red sky at night, Shepards Delight. Red Sky in the morning Shepards warning." what this dusk or dawn?

Thanks Niamh. It was dusk, but it poured it down with rain all the next day! Clouds were beautiful though. Last night we had really eerie pure white puffy clouds low on the horizon against a darkening blue sky but I couldn't get a good picture. Hopefully we'll get a repeat and I'll get lucky.