New Year Birthday for PanamonCreel

Happy Birthday Milan. Hope you are enjoying your special day, doing whatever you like to do. And the best of the New Year to you!

Happy Birthday, Milan.

I wanted to tell you that I have a lovely little Hoya pubicalyx 'Pink Silver' plant growing from the seeds you kindly sent me last February. Thanks again for the oppotunity to grow this beauty.
Hope you have a great day. Ü

Hope you're having a wonderful birthday.

Hey Milan, hope you're having a great birthday.

Oh boy - still trying to catch up! I hope you had a fantastic birthday Milan.

--Ginny

was wondering where you'd got to........hope you had a most wonderful time
LA

Happy to see our New Year Baby survived the festivities/family and made it back home to Canada.

So what stories do you have to tell us about Germany Milan?????? :) Pictures????? :)

Welcome back Milan. Yes, stories and pictures would be excellent.

Happy birthday Milan. Stories would be good.

Joan

I'm not a story teller and maybe I'm too technically challenged to operate an camera :)

Anyone believe that? Milan has 148 images in PlantFiles - maybe some coaxing is in order.

Oh please, please, please allow us just a teeny, tiny glimpse :-)

please, please, please, please..pretty please with sugar on it? Let us poor frozen northerners live vicariously through your holiday pictures..pleaseeeeeee

LOL ah Milan your nose is growing in leaps and bounds! ;)

Happy late birthday, Milan
inanda

Alright, I gave in and posted some pictures for public viewing (some from Germany)
The site is still a bit "flaky" and slow but one can view the locations of the pictures with Google Earth which is a great feature IMHO.

http://www.panoramio.com/user/89118

Ü Just came home in time! Ü

I found the answer to my ? re Stone Mountain ....... edited to say Milan told me to look it up myself (he couldn't remember the history behind it .)

# Who are the three men on the Carving on the mountain?
The Memorial Carving depicts three Confederate heroes of the Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee and Lt. General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
# How big/tall is the mountain? How big is the Carving?
The mountain is 825 feet tall and covers 583 acres. The top of the mountain is 1,683 feet above sea level.
The entire carved surface of the Memorial Carving measures three acres, larger than a football field. The carving of the three men towers 400 feet above the ground, measures 90 by 190 feet, and is recessed 42 feet into the mountain. The deepest point of the carving is at Lee's elbow, which is 12 feet to the mountain's surface.

Geology

Stone Mountain is a pluton, a type of igneous intrusion. Primarily composed of granite, the dome of Stone Mountain was formed some 300 million years ago, during the formation of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the eastern edge or front range of the Appalachian Mountains.[citation needed] It formed as a result of the upwelling of magma from within the Earth's crust. This magma solidified to form granite within the crust below the surface.

The granite is composed of quartz, feldspar, microcline and muscovite, with smaller amounts of biotite and tourmaline. Embedded in the granite are (xenoliths) or pieces of foreign rocks entrained in the magma. The xenoliths of the Stone Mountain granite are composed of two types of metamorphic rocks; gneiss and amphibolite xenoliths of the country rock torn from the conduit as the granite ascended through the earth's crust. These xenoliths are generally angular, display a foliation, have feathery black amphibole, and have a reaction rim of pale yellow orthoclase around them.

Other xenoliths are composed of restite and are generally rounder, lack the amphibole and reaction rims and have weaker foliation. These are cognate inclusions and were presumably the rock which the granite melted from.

The presence of abundant metamorphic xenoliths and restite infers that the granite is an S-type granite formed from melting of sedimentary metamorphic rocks.

The granite displays an east-west foliation, and abunant muscovite. The muscovite is probably metamorphic in origin. Late metasomatic veins of black tourmalne, K-feldspar, and amphibole are present through the granite and manifest as pale feldspar-filled fractures, often with large fans of amphibole.

The granite intruded into the metamorphic rocks of the Piedmont region during the last stages of the Alleghenian Orogeny, which was the time when North America and North Africa collided. Over time, erosion eventually exposed the present mountain of more resistant igneous rock, in processes similar to those that have exposed Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain

This message was edited Jan 28, 2007 9:10 PM

Milan the ability look at your pictures on the google earth map makes it such a treat! The forest and geology surrounding your birthplace is fantastic (I can see how those old forests influenced the writings of the Brothers Grimm).

Did you ever get lost in it?

Nope never got lost in it, too much population density there to get lost :).

Will still be adding more pictures over the next few days/weeks so keep watching :)

Oh thank you Milan. I am really enjoying your pictures.

what a wonderful and unique way of viewing pictures...thank you Milan

Thank you Milan. I am enjoying your pictures thoroughly. --Ginny

Tired of Global Warming (peeps had asked me to research it on the weather thread).

So I took another mini-vacation at Google Earth and I see you've added more information (translated to English ;). Thank you Milan.....I've enjoyed every minute reading about your fave haunts in Europe! Ü

And how wonderful to grow up in an area where ancient castles can be found: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bayern-fichtelgebirge.de%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

This message was edited Feb 4, 2007 7:28 PM