Oh boy...I love Rock and sunbeams!

cwhitt said:You must have a great camera, and a lot of patience, to get such a great photo! I expect you entered some photos in the contest -- I saw some fantastic ones of birds!

Thanks for the kind words. Actually my camera is an old Canon Rebel XSi 450D...I do have some nice lens and a good measure of patience though. The Blue Jay photo was taken with my Sigma 50-500mm @ 500mm focal length. I didn't enter any photos in the contest, I don't care for contest and such, I just enjoy taking photos and sharing what I see through the lens. Thanks again to you and all the others here for the kind words, acorns and thumbs.

Frost gilded.

Here's some more photos from this morning

GoatDriver said:Here's some more photos from this morning

This one should be framed and marketed! Gorgeous!

GoatDriver said:Rock demonstrating his famous slobber the cap trick this morning...
Then he did not want to give my cap back...being a brat this morning, he was




Here's Rock waiting for me at the fence...this is right before he slobbered my cap.

Words become absolutely unneccessary when your eyes speak for you!

Rock loves you, GoatDriver, and he feels he's loved back!

Well said Ursula!

Joanna, some of the photos with black background may have been taken with a flash, so the background is then very underexposed.

I go AWOL for a few days and come back to see some gorgeous scenery! Beautiful fall colors, horses, birds (real and painted), and I really loved the fog...

Home Depot has painted succulents for the season.

ivyplantsnyc said:Home Depot has painted succulents for the season

These are pretty, but would the paint not block the stomata and suffocate the plant?

That is what I thought. The spray paint would not come off without damaging the outer part of the leaf. The paint did not come off the ceramic pot when I tried to scrape it off with my nail so it will suffocate eventually. Showed it to another customer and he said that it was horrible to do that to the plant. I agreed. There was no one around to ask what kind of paint was used. Definitely not washable.
Look at the paint that I tried to remove on the edge of the pot.
Wanted to share the photo.

A fire next to the road at dusk.a few days ago >

They also dip Amaryllis bulbs in colored/glitter wax for Christmas. They are pretty, and popular right now, but it kills the bulb. If you are diligent, you can remove the wax, damaging the bulb, but the bulb can survive. But I would never buy one, no matter how pretty. You would think that with those succulents they could find something to spray them with that would not kill them -- a light glitter spray in a beneficial oil/soap or something like that.

I agree with you Christie. There are paints that wash off so that the plant is not harmed. At least those awful green and purple colored orchids are not harmed that we see at the gardening centers. We used food coloring on our carnations as a youngster and not a flower was not harmed in the coloring.
Will look for different photo to add.

A trip to the florist always cheer me up.


A marble poinsettia for your pleasure.

Finally another brushed poinsettia.

Enjoy.

I really hate plants being spray painted

Spray paint is dangerous for us also. Because of the rain I went to see what different plants were available. I never knew that poinsettias had different varieties. The photos show some of the natural beauty of plants with our trying to make them better than they were created. I never saw brushed or marbled poinsettias before. Maybe I don't get out enough. Was told that there are many varieties. The florist only had a small space for a few.

Nice, Ivy! I think nature does a much better job.

Seed heads ~

Yeah, you would think they could come up with a better way to do it - even a food coloring spray might work. I bet if you gave that decorating task to a gardener, they could come up with a better way. Hmmm, that might be a good Science Fair project for some 7th grader.