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Garden photos of '09.....#10
thanks Dyane
Thanks Dyane. Love that shot.
Purrrrrrtty
I love the photos---cheering on this dark day---I did bring my camera to the dam this morn, so here are a few photos. This is the impoundment area---it's an earthen dam, so water is only there during flood conditions. From May to Oct. dirt bikers are allowed in, & Oct-Dec, hunters. So this is the only time of year I go into that area.
This is the opposite side, showing the spillway---the river is the Naugatuck---it doesn't look like much, but the flood it caused was horrible---lots of lost lives.
The top of the dam is a half mile long---here are what used to be tracks from a freight line---now it's just used as a tourist train.
Dam nice pics! Nice place to hike.
Note from last thread: Cat is named Cocoa.
Thanks all!
Iris.... I just knew that I would love that cat! That's is the newly adopted stray?
Robin.... great pics. Thanks so much for sharing them. That would be a really pretty place to get away to where you don't have to go away to get away. That dam looks relatively new? Maybe 30yrs' old or less. That's a really comforting feeling. Especially since you can tell from the flood plain, that your river has really raged through there at times. It seems as though it's the smaller rivers that cause the most damage when they flood because they rise almost exponentially faster than the larger ones, so people don't have time to move. At least here that's the case, most deaths by large flooding rivers are because people ignored the evacuation notice. With the smaller rivers, there wasn't time to give a widespread notice. I've never seen railroad tracks built into the side of a dam. what a good idea.
Dyane, Great pic to start the thread off with!
Victor and Bill, you two would have fun hiking near that falls, that's for sure. There's only a trail the first 50'. after that, the path of least resistence is the general path. There's another falls just about 200 ft. away, finding it is easy, not falling into it before finding it is a little harder. But, the pool at the bottom is deep enough to land in ok.
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Correct about the stray. I think Calico, but haven't seen her picture. 2006 was the 'Mother's Day' flood around here & 3of the 4 bridges into the next town north were taken out. One bridge was build in the late 1700s & the banks were undermind so they were difficult to repair. The water is down in the summer so bare spots can be seen, but spring it rushes along.
According to the experts on the bird ID forum, my hawk was a red-tailed.
Robindog, I used to work in Ansonia, and there were markers where the 1950s flood came up on the buidings. Really awful. And the other thing that's really awful, if I may say, is that normal people feel they can't enjoy that area except for one teeny tiny time of the year. *Stop, don't go there*. K. But, very pretty pics. I wish "the Valley" would appreciate what it has.
Oh yeah, ok Victor, darker wind tips and the tail is fanned out in flight on the red tailed.
I found this awesome bird id site...
http://identify.whatbird.com/mwg/_/0/attrs.aspx
Nice site - thanks, Jen!
I use that site too, Jen. I found it through this Long Island backyard bird site.
http://www.libirding.com/IDBckyrdBirdsRevised.html
I saw this cute little primula on a table the other day and just had to get it.
close up of one of the flowers.
berberis 'pow wow' catching some sun!
The newest addition to my yard.... Gordonia Lasianthus (sp??) variegatus. The tage said zone 7, but it sort of looks like a zone 8 type thing. some web sites say 7 and others 8. Anyhow, when I figure it out for certain, I sure hope that it's a 7. If not, I'm going to have to move it and then try to figure out how to protect it.
meconopsis leaves
Great pictures RC I love primulas but they dont really perform for me.
love that primula!!!
Very unusual Primula. Almost looks like a Begonia to me. I planted the ones I got at the base of a tree and they look so much happier being outside. I think it was too warm in the house for them. They must do well for you in Oregon, cool and moist.
Yes - I thought it was a begonia too. Very nice.
redchic01, Pretty amazing primula. Do you have a name on a tag for it?
schickenlady, Great pecker shot. I wish we got those more often. Patti
Columbine.
Scilla.
Another.
RC that primula is beautiful..I would of bought it too! lol
Sherrie, thats one big Woodpecker!!
(That's one big pecker! ^_^ Hee hee)
Thanks all!
lol... Yes, of course!! My Downy is a big bird!
Patti, the tag is quite vague. It says: primula, annual, hardy to -40deg.
that's it. That's all the tag says. lol. Normally i care about the rest of the information. But, for $1.25, I'm ok with it. When I get home a little later today, I'll look up primulas a little bit and see if I can find any traits that might narrow it down some.
Jo Ann, this is only the 2nd Primula that I have. So, I really have no idea how they'll do here. The other one is a perennial that is pretty well known for being hard to kill. It sort of 'gets by' year after year. Some day I'll get around to finding the situation that it will do better in.
I love that Scilla Victor! is it a particular variety that is known for being blue? as opposed to the normal purpleish blue that is often seen.
Just went to see what was doing at Gro-More Farms. Lots of small perens and panzies. I just had to
They look good in the new pots!!
Wow - it seems like I have been gone so long and there are so many new people that I haven't seen before....great shot btw! So happy about spring!
I spent the last few days mixing compost and potting soil.
Filled 13 large 18-22 inch planters and 15 small 11-12 inch ones.
The warm days and nights cant come soon enough.Muscles are really talking to me.
hopefully your muscles will soon get used to it Jo Ann! But, at least it is soreness for a good reason.
This is my very first hellebore seedling to bloom. It took it 5 years to bloom. You can only imagine how excited I was to see it set buds! It's a seedling of 'Red lady'. It definitely goes with the notion that hellebores do not come true from seed.
berberis pow wow again.
daffodil.
