Cameras lost ?

We used to have lots of pictures to look at on Daves Garden. Seems to be getting less and less and a lot of plain old gossip.
We should return to gardenning things and photos of interest.
What does anybody else think ?
Bernie

think? who thinks anymore? just kidding! pictures are good... how much snow do you have already? It does appear the winter doldrums are upon us - to quote another.

LOL, Laura..

Hear. Hear. For gardeners.... by gardeners. For fun.

I had been posting a bunch in another thread but quit to break an irritating cycle. Seems I'd post a couple of good shots and POOF! a new thread would be started.


Here's what I was doing at 4:30am Thu morning. :0

Today in HD there was an accident in the plant section and some succulents were mangled. I salvaged some broken pieces...

Don't Worry, Be Happy.

awww, lemme rub that belly for luck!
(my buddha got confiscated at Christmas. Seems my DW/DD decided it needed to go home with DD's partner) : (

Fine... I'll just rub my own holiday season expanded belly. : )

(and no Weez, I didn't trip the HD perp... I mean person)

My buddha was a real find at a garage sale over 20 years ago. He has a red rhinestone heart in his belly button... a real class act!

Hello tall person from Zion. Do you always get up that early?

I had a similar experience at Walmart with some sad looking echiverias, but the one tiny piece that fell in my pocket just rotted and didn't take. When I think of the other 10 that went in the garbage there, sooo sad.

picture of something to look forward to

Ah, yes! That is so beautiful. The season will open soon enough, but it seems a long while here where the driveway is covered with ice. Thanks for the bit of encouragement, balvenie! Here's a touch of Alaska to dream upon.

It'll be spring before we know it. THINK SPRING!!

Kooger, how pretty! Are those allium?

yes, Aflatunense 'Purple Sensation'. So pretty, I love them. '04, first summer for them with me.

Weez.In my youth it was my dream to homestead in Alaska.Always has been a place to dream about.Family responsibilities sidetracked it too long though but at least a Cruise through the Inside Passage helped a few years ago.Sitka was fascinating,Ketchican was wet,the ship had too much great food and there wasn't enough time ashore.We do hear from distant family members in Barrow now and then tho.

Bernie, it seems I look at dozens of new photos every day, same as I always did here...

Love that Alaska scenery. That was some of the most awesome country I ever saw!
I was about 100 miles south of Fairbanks. We all climbed to the top of a about 6000 ft moutain. Then we also walked up the spoil ridge to the ice of a glacier. I wish I would have paid more attention, because they did tell us the names.
Also went on a small boat up a glacier river, then into a clearwater stream. We were around 30 miles from the highway when we came across a homesteaders cabin. He had lived there alone for about 25 years. He would make a trip out in spring & fall. One year he didn't show up so someone went looking. He had died during the winter. His homestead was a beautiful place!
I was there in 1968.
What mountain is in your picture or what part of the state?
Bernie

It was 70 degrees here all weekend so we planted 40 trees, 7 shrubs, assorted bulbs from the co-op, 15 hellebores, and i still have a bunch of grasses to plant.. we are tired! this is what we saw as we were wrapping it up:

Cool balloon!

Weezins .. that Alaska trail .. looks like it mite would qualify fer a Yukon cow trail .. with it cut so deep and seemingly so narrow too !! .. * hee hee * Gotta be a hikin' trail tho', surely(?) .. Lord forbid .. there's no moo-moo's there - right ?!? ..

Bernie .. haint it time you found some more pics yourself ... and posted a couply few fer us also ? .. hee

Reckon your home building .. is pretty much, on 'standby' .. fer a spell, 'ey ? ...

- Magpye

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echoes: it has become a habit to wake up around 4ish. It seems we get our heaviest snow at night and 1) I secretly look forward to playing with the snow blower 2) if it was heavy I try to get the end of the driveway and 2ft swath along the curbs cleared before the snow plows come through so there's less of a dam to hack out at the end of the driveway 3) still have 2 highschool girls at home and the DW leaves around 5:30 so I clear, pull vehicles out and clean them off.

Sorry, I'm in the middle of making up a wholesale catalog for our bedding plants for spring. Also putting lots of stuff on my antiques store page.
We are done with the house until warmer weather when we will finish their deck.
Our house is done for now. We will build some more cabinets when we get time.
My son is busy starting seeds. He built this germanation chamber. Works real good. It stays right on the temperature it is set for. Things are popping up in there!
Bernie

That's a pretty cool set up Bernie. Room for LOTS of seeds!

Bernie .. (hee) ..I knew you could find a pic of some lil 'some' thing .. to post !!

Sure nuff ... a very nice pic of one super trumped up germination chamber ya son has constructed !!

And yet, once more .. Wow! .. A very impressive project completed and wonderfully succesful, at that - results are pretty dang'd apparent !! .. Thanks for posting the pic Bernie ...

- Magpye

Belvanie, Southeastern Alaska is beautiful, but, as you say, quite rainy. I suppose that is why it is so lush and green. You ship did not end it's voyage in Seward? Perhaps they docked in Whittier in those days. Most of the cruise ships end their voyage here in Seward. Sadly we see little of the passengers, as they are whisked up by a bus and taken to Anchorage. The cruise companies seem to like to keep everyone herded together like a flock of sheep!

Bernie, I'm not sure which mountain is peaking up over the trail there. We have a small range of mountains around Seward. Seward is on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula: http://www.city-data.com/city/Seward-Alaska.html The picture I posted was taken by my son (38 yrs old!) who likes to mountain bike on the trails. I send my digital camera with him to bring back pictures so that I can enjoy the trip, as well. I'm always so excited to download them when he gets back! It sounds like you had a wonderful Alaskan adventure yourself! By the way, your son's germination tank looks pretty interesting. I start lots of bedding plants myself, and some really are fussy about the environment. He did a good job!

Heck a fire, Magpye... we don't need cows to break trail around here... the bears do it! LOL! Yes, it's mostly hikers, with a few bikers, etc. If you look reeeeeeal close at the picture below, you can see a black bear on the mountainside along the trail that day.

Suzanne... wouldn' you love to be in that balloon looking down at the landscape below! If you plant tulips now, when will they bloom?

8ft: My DH always goes out and warms up the truck for me when I'm going to town. It's such a nice thing to do. You're a real sweety, since it's so early and an everyday thing for you. I'll bet it's appreciated.

Well Weez, I guess it is since you can easily tell I'm not missing any meals I have no problems raiding the fridge if I'm actually hungry but never get tired of, or turn down, that plate that shows up... regardless of whether I'm in bed, the basement, garage, north 40 (inches - small lot). :)

It's funny, I can be out concentrating on blowing snow with the wind, turn around and dirty my carharts! There she'll be in a blizzard, in her slippers with a cup of coffee out at the end of the driveway!!

Bears! I guess you have to be scrupulous in cleaning up the barbecue grill, huh?

DW was peeking over my shoulder with the camera the other morning... with coffee in hand. Where it changes to black in the front is where it drops off at the wall of snow the plow left at the end of the driveway.

Heck, 8ft, that's HOW we clean our grill... just leave it for the bears. They do a real good job, but they never close the lid when they're done!

Sounds like you and your DW have a great relationship. Your wife knows the value of a man in Carharts at 4:30am... a thing of beauty! We have the same problem here with the snow plows... just about the time you've got yourself dug out, the snow plows berm you in.

Here's a wonderful moment from last February.

Now that's SNOW! Think I'll just go on to bed and forget about this little inch or two thats falling tonight.

We get most of our snow in the early part of the year. Right now, the driveway is icy, but not in need of a plow. Here are my greenhouses last February.

They should be well insulated by all that snow!
We have barely enough to cover the ground. Minneapolis set a record Sunday for the latest date to get a 1" snowfall in one day. They are still waiting.
I'm happy with out it, makes winter driving a lot easier.
Bernie

That's last Feb's pic, so it is quite different here now. We don't have much snow, and the temp has dropped down to about 6F above. We seem to be the tropics of Alaska right now, since Anchorage is at least 15 below and Fairbanks was 42 below last night. This is pretty cold weather for us right now. The pic below is from April 2001 when my husband was getting the greenhouse ready to fill with seedlings. The snow is a good insulator, but doesn cut a bit of the sun from getting into the lower levels.

Dang! I think the last time I saw that much snow on the ground at one time was when we lived in Illinois...The blizzard of 1978.

Oh, I'm sure Illinois could put us to shame in some winters!

Well, I had a foot of snow on the ground. Then yesterday it thought about raining...

Thunderstorms rolled through last night and we were up to 52 during the day. Then today we'll turn around and head for single digits. Sheesh!

That's the kind of weather that is sure tough on sleeping plants. I think more plants are killed over a winter like that than just a hard cold winter. We get lots of variations here, too, so I try to mulch wherever I can to keep the temp somewhat constant. Here's how it looked in February of 2003... very unusual, warm spring. About the time all the plants came out of the snow and began to grow, the temp dropped to the teens. I lost almost all the potted perennials I was wintering over.

pretty puppies all in a row

more itty bittier

and in the middle-ier

When was this show? Did you have a dog in the show?
Bernie