Yay for rain for the left coast folks!!!!

Delighted to see we have 100% chance of rain! But I do feel sorry for the children who will be trick-or-treating!

Unless something weird happens, I should have blooms into December. Tom, do you want a stand-alone thread for 'I need color and sunshine' photographs?

Not yet, Debra, I'm OK yet, still have a petunia blooming and a rose, but along the end of January and early Feb. I'll be in desperation! That's when I'll want loads of pictures.

Okay, let me know when.

Thanks for the radar reading, Tom.
I say bring it on! We just watched The Giants Homecoming Parade
broadcast from San Francisco. Millions of happy people in the rain !

Pretty pics, Deb.

I am so not envious of you folks that get snow this early. We have had US records for the amount of snowfall, but at least it doesn't start this early.

Luckily we don't get the amount of snow we used to get here. Quite a few of the older houses still have second floor doors.

Holy cow, Polly -- seriously?

Seriously. We live not far from the beginnings of the Tug Hill Plateau..

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Good insulation for irises, and the ground hardly ever freezes more than one or two inches down, due to the snowfall.

Polly, if you stepped out of one of those doors you would disappear until May under the drifts. Normally we do not get much snow... some years we get none. If a system comes through the week before Christmas all you hear out of everyone, including the weather guessers on TV, is maybe we will have a white Christmas. That happens less than once a decade. I really don't like setting records weatherwise.

Me, either, Bonnie--in either direction!

Me either, but could I get my husband to move away from the grandchildren. No. Just a few miles south, and they get many feet less snow.

I really don't know how they climbed out of those second story doors. Guess you'd have to start shoveling right away in order to breath

Or maybe skis or even snowshoes. Better yet a zip line to the top of the barn where you enter through the loft door. I have no experience with that kind of snow. I would have to hibernate.

No kidding..................

That makes sense, Bonnie. I would hate to jump into 8 foot of snow.

Hello All . Thank you for your kind words . TB Irises bloom in Poland in May / June, but varieties imported from Australia bloom in the first year after planting in July / August, and even September. Greetings from Poland.

Barashka! Great job on the photos! You have some gorgeous irises! Join in the conversation any time!

Wow, Barashka. That's a beautiful iris (your most recent one here) What is it called?
Oh, I almost forgot... !

Hello Barashka -- welcome to our group!