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Are there any night owls or west coasters still around?
Mid-coaster here, with tonight’s “Mystery Close up!” And no, NDD, this is not toothpaste! hehe
I don’t know what it is, but it’s a lovely color!
Private joke, Izzy. Just between me and IVG. LOL. What time zone are you in, BTW? Are you out here on the Left Coast?
Yup, upper left, but I’m a transplant from LA.
Bet it’s nice up there. And nice to be a transplant from LA. I tried that, but it didn’t take. Better luck next time, ay?
I guess you weren’t around for my quarter horse gif, I didn’t think I’d ever live that one down…
I love that color. Like heliotrope.
But it’s not heliotrope. For those willing to venture a guess, I will say that this is just beginning to open, and is a deer repellant plant in the onion family. (Which pretty much gives it away, lol.)
How about a “Downunder-er?” Damn hemispherists. 😉
Hey! Are you commenting from the future?
It’s a little after 4pm Thursday here in Tasmania. We’re just a little past the day’s high temperature of 13C (about 55F), which we usually hit around 3pm, and the winter sun’s only about an hour from setting.
Another cool winter’s day, but at least this one was dry.
So, am I posting from the future, or are you posting from the past? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Whoa, duuuude… it’s probably both!
Great to see you pop in! But then, it is Dog Blog day down your way… had to laugh at that damn hemispherists comment… I’ve been called a lot of things, but that’s a new one!
Nice to see you! How are things on the other side of the planet?
Cold, and a bit dark (see above).
Sounds very mysterious. Kind of frustrating not to have a picture. I’m getting spoiled with the photo-essay trend. The next best thing to being there. LOL.
Here’s the view of your “back yard.” Taken about ten minutes ago.
Our property goes halfway up the hill in the near distance.
Oh. My. God.
That is so beautiful! Wow. It must be incredible to live in a place like that!
Here a bit of the front yard. There’s about 5 acres of native pasture around the house.
Just right for duckies and alpacas to roam about.
I repeat OMG! You just inspired me to google Tasmania. I actually love that they have a gay & lesbian link on their main page. I mean, I’m not gay and lesbian per se, but with all of the politicizing around this issue, which really has to do with people’s private lives, I thought it was sweet that they had that welcoming link.
I’m not gay and lesbian … that would be a very hard thing to pull off! So to speak … But seriously, I do appreciate courageous people here who don’t have a problem with acknowledging the rest of us. {{{{Mythmother}}}}
Don’t underestimate me, IVG!!! I had lunch today with a friend who told me I could do anything I set my mind to. Now I don’t know if she’s right, since I’ve set my mind to many things (such as publishing my wonderful novel) to no avail… but I’m keeping dibs on wiggle room in believing that the sky’s the limit. And, anyway, we’re all gay and lesbian and straight and whatever. I just don’t see what’s the problem. OK I do see, to some extent, that Americans are still bully-in-the-playground adolescents, for the most part. Confused, ashamed, and grasping for some kind of identity.
Tasmania went from the last Australian state to outlaw sodomy to the Australian state with the most progressive gender and sexuality laws in the span of 10 years time. It’s a good metaphor for the place – a bit backward and parochial, but willing to break ahead of the pack once they decide to move along.
But that’s great to hear! If we didn’t have so much invested here in terms of money and gardening effort in our house, I’d seriously be considering figuring out how to emigrate. May still have to work on that, given how things turn out the next couple of years here. Sad to say, but true.
I miss California sometimes, but I’m not sure I could be living in the US now. Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard, Bush’s Mini-Me, is equally obnoxious a Dubya. But, having only only 18 million people to screw-over and toy with, not as much of a threat to world peace.
love that metaphor! and so very much needed to balance out the pack of criminals who are trying to drag America back into the dark ages.
A-freaking-mazing, Keres! You keep fueling my desire to get down your way. If I were younger and more emigrant able, I’d be working on taking up residence down under. Australia has always fascinated me, especially Tasmania (damn those WB cartoons), but you just keep tempting me more with those great shots of your place. Thanks for sharing!
Found this Happy Guy hanging around the Ultra Green Nursery the other day.
Thanks, mythmother! That made me smile!!
How are you tonight?
Me too, Izzy! I keep looking at those garden Buddhas and wanting to get one, but always back off due to the price, and also wondering where we would find space for one!
This one was great, I really wanted to take it home. They also had a nice sitting Buddha for $110 and I really wanted to that that home, too, but couldn’t justify the $$$. In case you don’t already know it, putting a statue of the Buddha in your garden will make the plants grow better. This is a fact. I’ve tested it out by moving the Buddha statue around, and wherever it is, the plants grow better around it.
And here’s a flower for you, too!
Wow, MM, you have been busy out there lately! I’d love to accompany you on one of your excursions to the garden centers… wouldn’t that be a hoot to have both of us with cameras yapping about how to shoot the best shots and talking in Latin? hehe, ok, we can skip the Latin part. Still think it would be fun.
I would love that, IVG! We would have some great conversations and then you could write down the names of the flowers so I could label the photos when I upload them!
Thanks, MM. Now if you could only give me some pie from Dupars!
In Farmer’s Market. Actually, I think there’s at least one other one, too, but I can’t remember where.
If you remember, let me know and I will get you some pie!
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oooh nice, NDD. Lovely purpley. Did you take that with a flash?
yeah, there was still some daylight as it was not long after sundown, but I like that the flash knocks out the stuff in the background. Try it sometime!
Yup I do use a flash sometimes in low light, so that’s how I guessed! On my camera it changes how the colors look, though, and also flattens the flowers out. But I love the way your photo looks! It has a lot of dimension.
Great shot, NDD! I’m betting on apple blossoms or some other fruit tree, but the leaves lead me to think it’s an apple tree. Correct me if I’m wrong, because as Chris can tell you, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to trees. He’s much better at those, and weeds. hehe
I’m not sure myself actually, but it could be an ornamental crab… just haven’t spent time in that park enought to know.
Yeah, I suppose that could be a crab, especially if it was in a park. The ones around here are long since done, which demonstrates to me just how different things are up your way, my friend. And I tend to think that ND is not all that far away, but guess it is, after all. LOL
well Fargo has always been 4, and my country location some 90 miles N NW of here is on the edge of 3, but now I hear people are trying stuff for zone 5 here in Fargo, so maybe 3 is now 4 up north (one result of global warming—akkk!!!)
I know what you mean… I still consider us a zone 5, but supposedly we’ve been re-classified as zone 6, though I’m hesitant. but that Dragon arum is supposedly only hardy 6 and above and so far it’s doing great here. But then again, certain things are blooming earlier than they should, so we have our concerns about the warming thing too. Which reminds me, I can’t wait until the Al Gore film shows up here… I’m sure you’ve heard of it right? An Inconvenient Truth… I caught his presentation on LINK TV a while back and taped it, and it is scary stuff. I still think of Al as our president who got exiled. I’ve loved the guy ever since I first saw him speak in Madison back in 88 when he stood on a street corner and talked about environmental issues. He had me from go, though I foolishly voted for Jesse Jackson in the primary at the time. Silly me.
wow you guys are amazing with your zone number talk!
Interesting about Al Gore. Our president-in-exile better run his ass again in 2008 or ELSE. I can’t imagine a man more needed than he is to be in position to have an impact on the things that he cares the most about.
Dream team: Gore/Feingold!
He picked the wrong Jew to run with in 2000, if you ask me (though I know you didn’t). I just love Russ too, and besides he’s a hottie! lol
I’m okay with any Jew he wants except that traitor JL. But we can’t even blame JL since Gore actually won and the presidency was stolen right out from under him with the help of the SUPREME [ASSHOLE] COURT! Boy was that ever a take down of my school girl crush on America.
At least in my 2004 caucus, he was roundly trounced and laughed at by the people in attendance (all 2-3 of em). I sure hope Ned Lamont can somehow beat him in the primary and get that whiny ass Vichy-dem sent back to whatever country club he crawled out of. Don’t get me going on him… and I’d love to roundly bitch slap whatever Dem consultant got Al to pick him as his running mate. Oh well… we got screwed with no sensation as my sister is want to say…
But Al again in 08… HELL YEAH!!!
Good night everyone
sleep well.
Gonna miss you the next few days! Try to enjoy what you can while you’re away.
Sweet dreams and have a good trip!
Will be looking forward to your return and a full report!
Dupar’s — mmmmm
Wow, cool place, I would love to go there~ I’ll just print out the photo and show it around until someone gives me the address…. LOL
They have a website! (of course!) I haven’t been in years, and I actually don’t remember if the pies were the greatest or if I just loved going to the Market, but I seem to remember a fondness for their pancakes, too. Apparently there’s also one in Studio City and in Thousand Oaks.
http://www.dupars.com/
I’ll have to check out the one in Studio City, only a hop skip jump and freeway log jam from here! Cute website!
This is a wider view of the front bed where the close up came from (taken tonight).
Looks like your garden is just about bursting at the seams, IVG!
This is just getting going… all that green stuff you see in the background will be going full bore in about a month or so. And we’re not done yet putting in new perennials and continuing our rampage to try to eradicate the rogue heliopsis that’s trying to take over. I’ll keep taking these shots at similar angles over the next few months and you’ll see how it changes. Believe it or not, there are many CA poppies coming up toward the front of that bed, but they are still very small.
It’ll be fun to watch your garden grow! I was hoping to stay unemployed long enough to do some work in mine. No such luck!
These were a couple of hitch hikers standing by the side of the road.
of the Wood Hyacinths I posted in previous cafe. We have about 100 of these scattered around the front beds… got a super cheap deal on them in fall 2004 and they’re just coming into their own this year now.
Btw, since no one guessed on the previous close up, I can reveal it now… it’s a Purple Globe Allium (thus the onion family reference earlier). According to most sources, these should be blooming in June… ah hem. Hello, can we say global warming here?
Still a tad off my feed, so to speak, so a little extra rest might help.
See you all tomorrow.
Sorry I missed your exit, NDD buddy. Hope you get to feeling better soon! And let’s get our heads together w/dada, MM, and Olivia about getting a “spa night” organized for Mary when she gets back. I’d say she more than did ‘yeoman’s duty’ tonight. Besides, we mid-coasters have to hang together, right?
I must be draggin my sorry hind end to bed now. And since Olivia must have long since succumbed to hockey mania, I’ll part on a tulipy note for her. This is one of the last lingering tulips we have now… oddly enough it’s white, and was in a mix of purples, yellows and pinks! Still pretty though…
A fond goodnight to MM, Izzy, Keres and anyone else still lurking around here. I figure NDD is already off snoring somewhere, but he’ll understand if he’s not!
See you all later on dada’s “flip side!”
Night, night, all! See you tomorrow.
Toddling off to bed here — just finished watching the most AMAZING hockey game (which, unfortunately, the Sharks lost). Went 2 full overtimes (20 minutes each) and got about 2 minutes into the 3rd OT before the Oilers scored the winning goal. Both teams were pretty much gassed…at least they (and the fans) have a couple of days to recouperate before next game Friday. And the loss means there WILL be a game 5 back home in San Jose — tickets go on sale Friday at 10am, and I plan to be camped out on the computer trying to score a pair for me and the spouse. 🙂
‘Kay, beddy-bye time…will have to wait till the morning to watch Keith… 🙁
Well, Keith rocked tonight, as always! Take care, Cali. I’m winging out of here right after you!