Yes, that is I in post 3602202.
Please take pictures!
Susan looks like you did a pretty good job of covering the event. That's my husband Ric in that picture BTW. Glad someone was taking care of business. Sally is right must have been the only time you weren't smiling.
thx Susan- I try to avoid my 'pursed-lipped smirk' picture pose when possible. : ^ ) My parents must have spent oh, $200 in the sixties/seventies on orthodontics, heck I should show it (reality check I just paid last of $2000, after insurance kicked in, on second kids set.)
I read the post wrong and I thought it said oh you were not smiling so I found one that you were...LOL
Oh we know the prices of braces... 3 out of 4 of ours had them....
Your purple flowers made it home ok... I am so glad...
Susan
What wonderful pictures! I love putting all the on-line names with faces now! It looks like EVERYONE had a wonderful time and left with a car load of plants! What fun you had!! Happy planting everyone!
Shirley,
HI! Some of us were racking our brains to remember WHOSE house the "Round Up" was held at a couple of years ago????
I know you were instrumental in organizing it, and wasn't it somewhere towards Western Maryland? Around Frederick??? There was a stream and fishing, and people were sleeping in tents or campers to spend the night. What was her name. please......
Please tell us! Thanks!
Gita
Hi Gita,
Yes, the round-up was held in Western MD at Candee's (Haighr's) cabin in the woods. It was much further North/West than Frederick. It was near the MD/PA line, close by "Sidling Hill". It was beautiful with a great big lake for fishing, camping, lots of room for swapping plants, eating & getting to know everyone. We all had a fantastic time!
Okay, here's what I took which isn't much. I'd like to blame it on my digital camera which didn't even update right after Y2K but I have to admit I'm super bad at taking pictures. I kind of gave up after trying to juggle plants in one hand, camera in the other, and enjoying talking more to the people than trying to snap pictures. Here's the first and at least everyone is smiling in this one (that means you Susan!)
Some trading going on. Happy trading with Holly, Wrightie trading with Ruby while Brent looks on.
I like to go for the "traders in their natural habitat action type pictures" (ie, I can't take pictures).
Here's the best of the bunch.
And a view from Harts toward the front of the house. That's all folks.
Great photos, y'all. Except I'm MUCH skinnier and younger than in that photo. (snicker)
and I'm as slim as Sally...
Hart is that the same view that you posted on the thread with the view of the spa? If so it would be neat to see them both posted on the same thread to compare.
Um, Wrightie is as slim as Sally. LOL
Holly, that isn't the same view. If we have another swap here, I'll not be running around like a maniac and I'll take you up and show you. If you walked up behind the chicken house and followed the barbed wire fence away from the road and into my woods, the view in the 1857 painting is from there. It would in the opposite direction from Miata's photo. (There are mountains both to the east and the west here, which is why you see mountains in both views.)
Miata's photo is looking down my front yard at an angle toward the land across the road.
and I'm as tall as Sally...
and I'm as nice as Sally...
and I'm as witty as you...
and I'm as pretty as you!
((blush))
Now you've gone totally over the top!
It's getting pretty deep in here.... As my dad would say, "Roll up your pants -- it's too late to save your shoes!"
I know I'm repeating myself, but it was just so much fun to meet/see everybody on Saturday! Thanks!!
:-)
Critter, I second that (on both counts)!
Funny, I always like wading in the muck!
You all are cracking me up. LOLOL
It's fun to see what everybody looks like! And what a beautiful spot. I wish I could have gone, but I had to go to a wedding in Maine.
Wish you could have been here, Claypa.
poor claypa. I hear Maine is awful, and all the fancy food and drinks that go with weddings, what a chore.
I know, Sally. I was thinking the same thing. Plus, New England in general is such an *ugly* place.
I appreciate your understanding of the sacrifice I made.
They built a scenic overlook in front of where I used to live. And they left the mailbox?
not to mention, annoyingly cool. Sweating is so fun! What part of the heck-hole were you in, claypa?
Downeast / Hancock County. That's Mt. Desert Island and Bar Harbor in the background. The mosquitos were fearsome.
Here's a picture of Blueberries and reindeer lichen:
How pretty! I'm lichen it.
My friend hates Maine so much she goes back for vacation, to be sure she knows how much better she is in the MD burbs. She grew up in or near Stephen King's town.
Wow! Finally have a chance to catch up here - I knew I was going to miss all the fun - but great to see pictures of all your happy faces :) Wondering how everyone was dealing with the heat on Saturday - it was in the 90's here and as the sweat was rolling off me in the garden I was thinking of all of you and wishing I was there. I was beginning to panic that everyone was having so much fun there weren't going to be any pictures! I know what that's like - do it all the time myself - take my camera everywhere and most of the time it sits in the car! I need one of those little digitals that you can slip in your pocket, then I'd be at the ready all the time, like for the next swap?? Hoping I'll have a chance to meet everyone one of these days.
claypa, being a native "Main-ah" loved seeing your picture of Cadillac Mountain and that gorgeous blue water :)) Still have family living in Maine so I'm there at least once a year but seems lately it's always in the fall or over the holidays when it's frigid weather. Miss seeing all the wildflowers in late spring/early summer but I don't miss the bugs!!!
sallyg, I've only been in Virginia for 7 years and although I love Maine (for at least 4 months of the year!), I could never move back and trade my Zone 6 garden for my old Zone 4! Although it was possible to grow some beautiful Delphiniums in the cooler temps there. Like your friend, I grew up in Bangor - which is where Stephen King lives now. When I was a teenager (many moons ago) I attended a party at his house - went to school with one of the boys that originally lived there. It's changed alot since then - used to walk by that house every day on my way to school!
Well, speaking of pictures, as soon as I get my act together I'll be posting pictures of the gardens and all the work I was doing in the heat while you were all enjoying yourselves :) Actually took a "break" from the nursery for several days after our hectic spring schedule and got lots of areas in the garden planted that have been bugging me - they really needed help - so I'll have before and after pictures :) Really pleased with how it's all coming together - now if I can just get keep the deer away from everything :( Had two new rose bushes that had just started to bloom and they chewed the tops off those and "pruned" an Indigo Bush that was blooming as well - may as well forget planting the daylilies that have been kicking around here for years in "that" area! Had to make a special trip to Lowe's on Sunday afternoon to pick up Deer Off before they got ALL of my Hostas - a friend highly recommended it and I'm hoping it works!
Thanks again for the pictures :)
Debbie
Wonderful thread. Thank you to all who took pics. I can't remember if we took any or not. Will check whenever I unpack. I agree with all of the compliments that everyone was giving each other. They seemed to be exact. I think that all of us women would like to be Sally's height and build. Hart, I loved your comment about being younger and thinner than shown in the picture. Same goes for me. ha-ha
Debbie, sorry that you couldn't make it this year. There is always next year. This is our first year of having deer bother our gardens. We are seeing a lot of day lily bloom destruction. My husband is so mad. He spent countless hours last fall and this spring digging up and transplanting plants from his parents home.
We have been away from home this week and while checking on my outdoor and inside plants, I am amazed at the growth just over a few days. Our work begins later this morning when we begin planting all the wonderful and very interesting plants that we received last Saturday. Gita, the pregnant onion has to win the prize for most unusual. Thank you for sharing.
I am sure that I will have questions about some of the plants when we begin, so be prepared. I would like to ask that if anyone gave me anything that might be considered invasive, to let me know. I can remember at least two people telling me that the plant they were giving me were considered invasive. I cannot remember which ones though, so would appreciate a heads up if you can remember. Thank you all.
Again, a great big thank you to Diane for opening her home to us. That is a lot of folks converging upon a private home. I loved meeting Java. Such a cutie.
I hope that everyone will have another great weekend. I am glad to be at home and back to my plants and my dogs.
Ruby
If you got a tallish purple-leaf plant from me, that's lysimachia, and it spreads in a manner similar to mint or monarda (bee balm)... not invasive in the way that dandelions are invasive, LOL, but it'll sure try to take over its own little corner of the world. The Chocolate Peppermint is pretty wild also, while the Kentucky Colonel spearmint will spread but isn't nearly as aggressive or likely to choke out other plants. I think that's it for "invasives" from me! :-)
I'm clearly going to have to get some choc' mint
How did you miss it? I'm sorry! I brought huge bags of both mints and just told people to grab 'em by the fistful. I'm sure we'll manage to get some to you... just remind me! :-)
I was too busy pushing my own baggies, sistah. :~)