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Sato

#5760
Crape myrtle


At Children Park
Photos and Videos are my Hobbies. (S.Sato)

so_P_bubble

Oh that last photo made me so nostalgic...
We had those lovely bushes in my childhood home, they grew wild on ants hills. I had forgotten about them, it was so long ago. 
Then I visited in North Carolina and they were all over the Holiday Inn I stayed at.  I was delighted and on my return to Israel I took with me a small plant in my suitcase.  I planted it with much love in the yard.  It vegetated for four or five months and then just died. :(

Mary Ann

Sato, I never saw a dahlia like that - absolutely beautiful and so dainty.

I'm wondering if Jack is being affected by the rains in West Virginia.  I saw Wheeling mentioned in the flood forecasts.

Mary Ann

jackwv

Sato that dahlia is outstanding, so is your photo.   

Mary Ann, there has been some flooding with overflow from streams, but nothing near me.   I welcome the rain, but shame it has to fall so fast and cause problems in some areas. 

Mary Ann

Jack, I'm glad you are out of flood danger.

Mary Ann

FlaJean

Love all the photos.  Sato, the flowers are beautiful and Jack, the poem says it all.

Patricia, after staying safe in your apartment during all this rain you will be ready for another outing with your friends soon as the weather allows.

Lindancer

Sato, your flowers are beautiful

Jack I am glad you are safe from the floods. In NJ one place got 8ft, if water yesterday, where it has never flooded before. Ithas been pouring here for the last 3 or 4 days

Bubble, I love the crepe myrtle, they are all over Charleston,SC where I use to live. My husband brought a small bush and tried to plant it here and it did nothing, The man down the street has a large one maybe there are those  do better in the north

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angelface555

Sato, lovely flower photography! You have a gift!

Jean, it is still raining, and the ground is sodden! I notice some gardeners are putting plastic over their plants. In 1967, before Chena Lakes, a flood control project and series of dams and spillways, our entire town was inundated from end to end. However, this was a regular ten to a twenty-year sequence of events, so they finally did something. One memory I took from that was watching the river overcome a strand of birch trees between the river and my home.

It didn't seep through as I expected, but instead rose up and came over the top of young paper birch trees. A fantastic and thoroughly frightening sight!

Shirley

Sato, the type dahlia my mother had was like the first one you posted, each little petal so perfect they almost didn't look real.  I've never seen the other ones, almost look like a cosmos, don't they? So pretty. 

I have 3 small crape myrtle plants & plan to move 2 to join the one in the front of the house when we get cooler weather.  Have no idea what color any of them are until they bloom..... some of the package that comes with a donation to the Arbor Society.  I am thrilled the dogwood survived, very tiny yet, and a hawthorn tree, flowering crab, & others.  Each year they send 10 plants, most I have given to my sons.  After several years of donations I don't want any more so donating extra to St Jude's Children's Research Hospital this year.  ;)

My daughter is in town today & brought me a new Fitbit Versa,.... my old Fitbit Charge II was working fine but she wanted me to have a new one.  Been getting it installed on the computer & iPhone so think I need a nap before time to eat again.  Have a load of clothes in the dryer to fold & another batch of ribs in the crock pot that will be taken out tender & re-freeze so when I need them all I have to do is thaw & pop into the oven for half an hour, or in the outside grill with BBQ sauce & serve. 

Glad you are safe from the floods, Jack.... Do you have to watch for snakes & other wildlife when flooding?  Something we were always aware of in MO, but that was in a small town.  We do have snakes, turtles & other wildlife come into the yard when the river is high, been a few years since it came over it's banks.  Keeps life interesting. 

Amy

Sato, beautiful photos!!

Shirley, what kind of snakes would come in your yard? I was looking at the Versa, seems to have great reviews and light to wear.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

jackwv

Shirley  never a problem with snakes,  but remember one year when the field flooded and field mice came into the basements across from me and the water retreated with my chasing the mice back out 0f the basements across the street from me.  The water stopped and emptied with our chasing the mice.

Sato

#5771
Everyone, thank you so much for your messages.
Photos and Videos are my Hobbies. (S.Sato)

Shirley

Amy, my daughter absolutely loves the Versa, says it is way better than the other brand that's getting so much press.  She has both (what can I say, only been retired a year & too much time on her hands).  I liked the HR Charge 2, but mine was not keeping up with my stairs.... had to prove it to my daughter, went down to the basement & up & didn't change.... 2nd time it finally gave me one trip & my tongue was hanging out!  I expect better from this Versa once I get familiar with how to operate.

I'm not sure what all kinds of snakes, verified copperheads & the green garden snakes, one time a long snake that stretched from one evergreen shrub to another, I didn't try to chase it off but didn't see it again.  One snake reared up like you see a cobra in movies.... I freaked out about that one & both of us were trying to chop it's head off with garden tools, long handles ones.  The next door neighbor told us, after seeing it on the ground not moving.... a native bull snake.  I wasn't convinced, but when my husband lifted it on the hoe he had to hold it high to keep from dragging on the ground.  Disposed of it in the river. Because we are downstream maybe half a mile from the zoo, I was sure it had escaped & I wasn't going to worry where it was every time I went out in the yard.  Never saw another like it..... We've had large plate size turtles show up & take the wide shovel to haul them back to the river, just scoop & drag the shovel down the hill & they stay on for the ride.  Right now I have quite a few large snowy egrets, blue herons & smaller egrets on the sand bars, the fish are not showing up by the bank  so not sure if because of the egrets or muddy & little higher water.  When I whistle for the fish they jump up & splash in the middle of the river, where egrets can't get them. 

Jack, the house we built out west of town was on a road cut through the middle of 80 acre wheat field.... & "field mice" in not just an expression.  They spent all fall working their want into the house, I finally put some steel wool mesh around the pipe under the sink to keep them from chewing around it.  When they got into the cabinets they would bevel off the doors & slivers of wood would fall out when I opened a door.  We had mouse traps everywhere & I hated them.... couldn't stand finding one caught by a leg & not dead, poor thing, hated to see them suffer.   :'(   We kept that one kind of poison under the house but didn't seem to help.  The cats around here, especially old Lauren, took care of all mice.

so_P_bubble

it's so hot  japan that plastic food on displays are melting

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angelface555

I remember in 2005 when I was at Sears, that the vending machine's candy in the break room were melting. A row of Herseys was all bent over and smushed.

Sato

#5775
Hibiscus, Cotton rosemallow

Photos and Videos are my Hobbies. (S.Sato)

Vanilla-Jackie

Sato...
...now that is a pretty one...and it looks so perfect...
" There is no present like the time "

so_P_bubble

Sato, how unusual!  I have never seen one that particular color, it is a beauty.  Is that a new kind?
Botanical engineering is making wonders these days.

Sato

#5778
Jackie, Bubble, thanks.  This photo was taken in the nearby park.
Photos and Videos are my Hobbies. (S.Sato)

Mary Ann

At the house where I grew up, we had a hibiscus of similar color.  I loved it and was sorry not to take it with me when I moved.

Beautiful flower, Sato.

Mary Ann

FlaJean

Sato, that is Beautiful!

angelface555


jackwv

Heavy rain today but Mimi wanted her walk.   No idea what this plant is, but photo of blossom and plant.

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jackwv

Photo of the walk path in the rain.

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Shirley

Jack, that is such an amazing sight, so grateful you take time to share it with us.  Do many people appreciate it (like we do) & walk as often as you do?  You do a great job showing so many different colors & textures in your wide angles.... and sharp detail in that close up (I'm never seen a flower like that before, does it smell nice?).... so which camera were you using. I honestly can't tell, probably only if you wanted to enlarge one to 16x20, you think?

Gorgeous Hibiscus, Sato.  I wonder if they are in the same "family" as the hollyhock...... For a few years I had hollyhocks of many colors, thanks to a good friend, and a neighbor had hibiscus "on the other side of the fence" that were bigger but blooms  looked like my hollyhocks except for their plant/body.  That is a pretty color.

Mary Ann, I have plants from my mother's garden/yard as well as a flowering almond from the first house we bought back in the 1950s, forsythia from the first place we lived in Wichita (back in 1965).  I've tried to share them with my kids but only one has stayed in the same house to carry them on.
 

angelface555

Jack, your flowering white bush is Lily of the Nile. A subfamily of Amaryllis, and essentially the tropical equivalent of the daylily. I remember the plant from Knoxville. Lovely. As is the planted brick walkway.

so_P_bubble

Lovely lily with those hairy stems.  You are a good photographer Jack!

jackwv

Patricia thanks for identifying that plant.   Long line of them, they may get the wind but see no problem with deer.  Shirley I did not notice the scent.   Thanks Bubble and Shirley on the photo bit.   I just happen to have a good spot for photos.   Those were just with the iPhone.  I had better start carrying the good camera.  I have been having a problem with the computer not picking up the photos from the phone and I must then Email them to get onto the computer. 

so_P_bubble

MMMmmm Maybe that is what JaneS should do to have them on her computer? She said she did not know how to do the transfer.

Lindancer

Jack, I mention this before you are so lucky to have such beautiful scenes on your walks. thanks for posting.

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