Tina, that location was my first love. The one closer is on HWY 67 on the edge of Duncanville and Cedar Hill. About 4 miles from me. I sometimes threaten to take DH's card away from him. I can "just look" but he BUYS! We spend an awful lot while we are saving money. hahaha
WARNING; For every one in the northern Antilles (Caribbean)
This is a picture of the lava dome as seen from my house. The house in the picture IS NOT my house. It belongs to the gentleman that has the property next to mine.
Tina
Oh my! That's pretty close. I guess most things on an island are pretty close though. Is that the dome that we can see or is it inside a cone? I hope it quiets down soon.
Way too close for me. Take care, Tina.
Hap
That is just the top of the dome, it is growing inside a crater. It looks closer because I used the telephoto lens. It is close but not that close. I think it is cool!
I will Hap
Tina
Hello,
Tina, that does look cool, but also a bit creepy at the same time. i personally think its cool to look at it on the photo, but i wouldn't want to live there, :-)
yes, i am quite famaliar with quinine, it has A LOT of side effects. most malaria preventions have strong side effects, quinine among the worst.
could you tell me more about echinacea, sylvain? i haven't heard of it before.
isaac
Isaac, here is a link to some info on Echinacea for you.
http://www.answers.com/topic/echinacea
Hi,everyone.
Oh, Tina... that picture is both wonderful and scary at the same time. There's never a dull day when you live near an active volcano, is there? We hope our little chit-chat will take your mind off the volcano a bit. I always look forward to your pictures and news.
Isaac, in my own opinion, echinacea is just wonderful. Benjamin Franklin once wrote that he could not understand how someone who grew sage (salvia officinalis) in his garden should become so sick as to actually die. My grandmother said it cured everything but death. I hold roughly the same beliefs with echinacea (echinacea purpurea). It is a perennial plant in northern latitudes, up to USDA zone 3 if memory serves. It produces lovely purple-pink flowers.
One can produce a very powerful tincture by digging a 3-year old plant out of the ground, washing it and running the whole thing (flowers, stems and roots) in a food processor with a liter of vodka until a slurry is produced. You then bottle it and leave it in a cool, dark place for a month. Half a teaspoon in a glass of orange juice or water every morning and you're all set.
It wouldn't grow and become a perennial in Mozambique, or Florida. Buying the capsules is much easier. It really does boost your immune system. I used to work with the public in Canada. When the middle of October came around, I started on a regimen of 1 extra-strong echinacea capsule every day and I stayed with it until the middle of April. I wouldn't take the flu vaccine. Before I moved to Florida, I had flu-free for 8 years in a row: quite the record for those frigid latitudes. I encourage you to look it up on the internet. My offer still stands to send you some, if you want.
Take care, all.
Sylvain.
Tina we have three pretty good orchid places in Antigua, two for bare root (cheaper) and one more expensive but potted and good quality, if you let me know when you may come I will be very happy to drive you to them.
Tina this is my new driftwood feature, right now it only has one hanging orchid, but just you wait, then I will truly be broke!
Coco,
What that tree in the left? It's beautiful.
Hap
Coco: I love it!!!!!! What a fantastic idea. I am waiting on what they say about a ferry. I would love to go see the orchids, then we could go broke together LOL.
Tina
The tree looks like what we call a Flor de Mayo, Plumeria I believe in English.
It has too many leaves for a plumeria, yes?
Hap
It is a type of plumeria..I have it written down somewhere, I will find it later today and post what it is called.
Tina
It looks like that "other" type of Plumeria. The leaves are a bit different to what I think of as the normal ones. I have one but it's not as bushy as that one yet.
It is either Plumeria pudica or Plumera cujete
I think it is Plumeria pudica need a closer picture to tell. But it is beautiful.
Tina
WOW
Morning all. Tina, you are right, Plumeria pudica. Sue, that driftwood stand is such a neat idea. Hopefully you won't be too broke to take a picture when it is full....grin. It will be lovely.
Oh my, Sue, that is beautiful!!!!
Tina,
You going to be OK with IDA?
Hap
Ida is going to plough into Nicaragua shortly, most likely as a tropical storm below hurricane strength. It's main effects in that area are likely to be flooding and mudslides.
Hap.. Ida is on the other side of the Caribbean from me so I do not have to be concerned with it, thank goodness!
Tina
Discussion #4 on the NHC site still gives it as a tropical storm and not likely to develop into a hurricane. Wind speed is given as 60 knots (just under 70 mph). Public Advisory #4a says it's already a hurricane. And they give wind speed as near 75 mph. On the Saffir-Simpson Scale the wind has to be 74 mph and over to be a Cat 1 hurricane.
Hey happy, that 'tree' is what I know as miniature Frangiapani but there is nothing miniature about it. It is THE EASIEST thing to grow, almost 100% success and no watering, feeding or anything. Daves garden said it was Plumeria. Only seems to come in white unlike the Frangiapani tree.
Thanks.
Hap
That's what I call Plumeria as well, I've only known it from recently. Mine is very tall, spindly, and only in white. Have never noticed any fragrance. The other ones have been around a long time, are more common, more colourful, usually have a fragrance, and we call those Frangipani. The photo is of my Plumeria which is flowering now.
One of my Frangipanis. This one's an evergreen and grows into a large tree (for a Frangipani).
Another Frangipani.
A slightly different shade of colour to the last. I've also got a deep, almost black, red but not flowering. Another one I think is a yellowish orange.
Tropic Breeze, Your spindly only white Plumeria needs to cut back. My huge one came about because the dogs kept breakining bits off (did us a favour) almost all of the cuttings will take easily (Little rootone) and then the mother plant will fatten up and not be spindly.
Sue
Sue, I've considered doing that but with what's growing below, a bushy Plumeria would interfer with. I'll probably end up removing it and putting the cuttings elsewhere.
It' such a learning curve knowing where something should go...I just found out I have a plant (confederate rose) will grow to about 20"!
hey Tina just listening to the news....temporary ferry from next month permanent one in January! Yeah!!
Sue
I hope but I will not believe it until I see it. We have been hearing a bout the ferry running "next month" for 2 years. Actually got one last year for the month of Dec. then nothing after January. It kept promising "next month" it will be permanent. It never happened, LOL. But if it is still running after Dec. (to many people visiting) I am coming in January some time.
Tina
Update: Volcano is still "going and blowing". Bad news is the ash is going NE to NNE which means Antigua will get some ash and most islands North of Montserrat will be getting ash too. Sorry Sue!
more ash...YUCK.
Hello, Tina.
May this last episode spare you and every island in the vicinity. Keep on smiling. You will overcome in the end.
Sylvain.
drat! I hope it calms down again very soon, enough is enough... right?