Gardening, anyone?
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Magical Bean- it is pouring here today. Rain in the valley, snow in the mountains, but we love it! I hear it is so mild back east. Warmer in some parts of New England than here? El Ninjo doing it's thing.....
Here is a view from the mountains nearby today after the snow. I expect they are getting more tonight too!
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Love that pic, Jazzy. Makes me whine though, because I love the snow and we have a dandelion growing in the lawn instead. We may get freezing rain later in the week. Till then, I'll keep sleeping with my window open...in NY....in December!!!!!
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Same here with weird weather. Running AC for humidity. Toreador watches and severe thunderstorms forecasted for 2am. 78 here today. We had 1 freeze before Thanksgiving. I have a confused Bluebonnet growing in my garden and others coming up. Feliz Navidad! Linda
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That's TORNADO not Toreador, although I'd rather have toreador watches
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Booklady: Toreador watches? would we get to listen to earworm arias from Carmen? Unseasonably warm up here too, though no weather alerts. I'm starting to worry about my roses getting confused.
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Waking up this morning to a winter wonderland!
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Jazzy, wow, what a photo for New Mexico! Here I am in Ohio and we are expected to have record breaking 70 degree temps today! Last evening it was so mild, DH and I sat on the back porch without wearing coats and with the Christmas light on! That's something I've never done in December before! We were chatting with that neighbor next door, and another neighbor was actually cutting his grass! It's a bit weird but I am loving getting Christmas shopping done in the mild temps. We're taking a walk thru town this morning.
I was at the grocery store yesterday and saw beautiful Purple poinsettias! I'd never seen them in that color before. I may return with a camera to snap a photo of them. They were really gorgeous, and I'm not even a "purple" person. There were blue ones, too, but the purple really caught my eye.
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Divine- we do get seasons here in the high desert, and will get snow in the winter. It is more in the mountains than the valley area where I live, but it is a treat for us when it comes. NM officially came out of it's drought in the past month after 8 years, and we love our moisture. Plus, I want to snow shoe this winter and think it may be a good year for snow! I bet the ski resorts are happy!
I have seen those in the store here and they are beautiful. I got an orange poinsettia in November around Xmas time, but have not gotten a Xmas one yet. I think you should go back and buy yourself a purple one!
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Our weather seems to be stuck. The forecast for the week is temperatures in the 40's and rain. They try to use different words for the rain, showers, sprinkles, storms, but it's all wet. Perhaps we're like the Indigenous peoples in the arctic with lots of words for snow. Hard to sleep last night because the wind was blowing hard. I'm glad we had our enormous trees trimmed last summer.
Albuquerque is one place I've thought about living. I love the Southwest.
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Queenmomcat - your toreador remarks made me snort coffee out my nose this morning! Funny! Good luck to your roses. I want to live in New Mexico, your area, Jazzy. Vacations not enough and aren't frequent enough, either. Photos of those poinsettias, please? Lind
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Mid-December and it's raining here, warm enough to sit outside on the porch with only a sweater! Keeping a sharpish eye on my plants, though I'm not sure what I'd do about it if they did start coming back. Stand ready with pruning shears come spring, I guess.
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I still have parsley growing in the garden. Fresh parsley in December. Amazing.
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Beautiful gorgeous photos Jazzy.
Strange weather in the Chicago area too. Low60s. El Niño year. The last El Niño I remember it was65 degrees on Xmas eve and it hit 80 in February. It's nice to have a mild winter for a change.
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Speaking of warm and flowers blooming in December, these are my thrifts. TODAY. In Chicago!
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I had trouble posting the photo but these are my thrifts blooming today in CHICAGO. Holy cow. We had nearly 18 inches of snow earlier and these babies think it's spring now.
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Twohobbies- I have some of those in my front rock garden, but they are long frozen over. It is very cold here right now, walked outside today when it was in the low 30s for a high (ouch). My cheeks hurt. Nothing blooming here anymore!
A friend in NJ was posting pictures of her lenten roses blooming last weekend. I have heard cherry blossoms have been blooming in places too. Not good for the trees when the hard freeze comes again.
Enjoy the mild winter, although it sure must feel as weird as the freezing cold does to us here in the desert!
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ha, ha. Teka, the post office one is lovely.
I just received one of these Christmas cacti as a gift. Never had one before. It had a bunch of buds on it, then two or three blooms. Now the buds seem less vibrant. It was getting northern exposure, so today I moved it to east window. I guess I should google to find out optimum conditions for this plant. Teka, what kind of directional light does the post office cacti get?
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I used to have a beautiful Xmas cactus only it bloomed at Halloween. It did really well in a south window. I'd like to have another. How pretty.
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We are overrun with Xmas cacti. DH cannot resist rooting every little piece that breaks off. Teka, yours looks like it could be an older one. The Post Office cactus looks like it just came out of a greenhouse. I think they like a lot of light. The ones in the basement under the grow light have a lot more blooms than the ones in the windows upstairs. Some of ours bloom at Thanksgiving, others wait until Xmas. No idea why they're different.
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near Charolles, France
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Splitbean- thank you for that awesome photo. I need to see something green now in the midst of a lot of snow this year in the desert southwest here in the US!
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Happy New Year Friends! I was out in Palm Springs over the holidays and visited this neat place called The Living Desert that features gardens and wildlife from desert environments here in the US and Africa. Such a cool place and probably only saw a third of it. A bit less to see this time of the year with flora blooms, but still got a couple good shots to give you a sense of the place.
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The same Charollais countryside, in southern Burgundy. I love the hedges….
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Oh, just Palm Springs, huh, Jazzy? Lol. Such differing beauty there compared to Ohio. Great photos.
Split beans, also love the France photos and how cool the road lined in hedges looks.
I went grocery shopping at Walmart a couple days ago. Imagine my delight as I turned a corner and saw an entire length and width of shelves stocked with FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS!!! We have had a mild winter in Ohio, but those seeds were a wonderful, welcome, exciting sight.
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Loving all the photos.
split-bean, yours brought back a wonderful memory of a visit to the Loire valley years ago, I'm going to say July of 96? I've lost the photo now, but the memory is clear. My friend and I were driving towards our chateau at the end of day from Paris, and the light was still strong, and beautiful. Not harsh. We rounded a corner, and we beheld tall sunflowers as far as the eye could see. As tall or taller than we were. Every flower head was bent towards the sun, just starting to dip towards the western horizon. Definitely one of those "WOW" moments. Thanks for bringing it back to me.
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Teka- also note the day after Xmas, the stores were putting up Valentine's Day paraphernalia. No rest for consumerism in this country!
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I love country gardens. This one is in a reserve for rare farm animals in Warder, Germany.
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Splitbean- just gorgeous, and with the peacock as an extra special touch!
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