Hope you are feeling better today, Kassia. I woke up swimming still, but am trying to get up and get a change of scenery for a bit today. The wonderful news is that we had temps in the high 20s last night and ice on my low bird bath this morning, but the brug flowers remain just gorgeous and unharmed. We covered all the veggies and the impatiens and so far things look ok this morning according to Hank. I'm hoping to get up and take a look for myself at some point today.
Have a great day everyone!!
Some blooms from my Fla. gardens.......
Sorry, Kassia about the virus---had it a few weeks ago--couldn't look at food for a few days! Stay warm, Louise, & I hope you'll be up & about soon!
Thank you, Marilyn! I need to get up and going because John and Liza are down here in Fla. and we had planned to get together with them. I hope this is all gone by tomorrow!!
Hope all is well in Connecticut!
Hi, I felt better today!!!!!! thank God! I went to work today... it was really a good day! I love my co-workers - sometimes they are so stressed out and I wish I could just help out more... being so new I am more of a burden sometimes... but it is what it is for now... so I pray and try to keep a positive attitude to help them out! they are such nice people that forgot how nice and good they are...
glad you are feeling better
Sorry for the sick DG'rs Hope you are better soon.
Louise, that is one beautiful brug.
I posted this sunflower on another thread today, but hey, you can't see too many sunflowers during the winter........right???? LOL
Thanks, Allison and JoAnn! I'm slowly getting my sea legs back, except for first thing in the mornings. Ugh. It seems to take me awhile to get oriented and then the day gets better.
Here's a shot of some of my tomatoes that haven't started to ripen yet......
Good grief,I'm jealous.
The zinnias I planted from seed are beginning to bloom......
Ruby red grapefruits are small but sweet this year. The tree is loaded!
Wow look at all those!!!!!!! Thats wonderful!!!
Yeah.....more than enough to share! Florida passed a law that prohibits anyone from sending citrus through the mail. Can you believe that? They say it is to contain the citrus canker, but I think it is so the citrus venders will have a monopoly on selling their fruit. Before we retired, my neighbor used to pick some of our oranges and grapefruits and mail a box of them to us at Christmas time. I'd love to send some of these babies north, but it's not worth going to jail! LOL
Auntie used to send us a box full of fruit every winter from Florida, but not anymore!! lol
I think it's really pathetic. How could a grapefruit from my own tree in Florida threaten anything when it is sent to someone in a northern state???? Like there are orange trees up there which would be threatened! I don't buy it!
More govt. interference! Wish I could eat grapefruit but can't with my meds. Hope the weather is warming nicely for you--zinnia is a very nice color!
Thanks, Marilyn! The weather is great for me........I like it cooler!
Meds ruined grapefruit for me too.
SIL 's parents send a mixed box, I just eat the oranges.
nice... once again I am jealous over the tomatoes!!!
Thanks for keeping us ever forward-looking toward spring! I would love to see a shot of the tomatoes in their trellis like your first shot of them on Dec. 28, to compare and contrast.
Thanks esp. for the sunflower shot. Very nice composure. They always remind me of Van Gogh, which in turn, reminds me of Amsterdam. Been almost a decade now since my last visit. Maybe this year!
Still drooling over the citrus load. Sadness you cannot share!! :)
Hope you are staying warm, too!
Very jealous also. Just watching things grow from seed, wonderful. Looks like you will be having some tasty breakfasts.They are yapping about more snow for wed. Yuk! Send us some warm, pleeease!
As to the not sending fruit, I suspect it depends where and from what interest group the ban originated. Considering all the bugs that we are fighting here that are destroying trees and plants maybe if they had been checking plants or stopped imports for the last couple hundred years we might not have so many nasty bugs. People still smuggle things across state and country borders and figure well mine are okay, but small eggs or a hitchhiker you don't see can cause a lot of damage to many crops, forests never mind a backyard garden. Sometimes restrictions are good even if they are a pain in the butt. They have cut down a lot of trees recently because someone wasn't paying attention. Then there are the gypsy moths, japanese beetles etc. etc.
And something eating my lemon tree----I got it from Logee's, so no crossing state lines for it, but I do keep it outdoors in the summer!
Louise,
Your grapefruit looks wonderful.
Now, that is the ultimate- going out in the morning and picking breakfast. Enjoy!
Took a few shots between raindrops this afternoon....I posted this on another thread to show my dahlia seedlings with blooms developing, but I'm posting this here as well to show my zinnia seedlings that are also blooming now.
the third round of broccoli coming on this one plant...
This is my second pot of salad greens that is keeping us in salads. These seeds were only planted less than a month ago.
Paperwhites are starting to open....
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