Hello Justin & a very hearty welcome to you! We have a great community of people here always willing to answer questions & we love to think of ourselves as a WORLDWIDE community of ALL THINGS PLANTS. Bu the way, we refer to the site as ATP which is short for All Things Plants. Glad you came to join us & we hope you'll have as much fun as we do. And we may be able to learn something from you too!

Hey, Justin!
Welcome to the great state of TEXAS! (Have to use all caps to give you a sense of how BIG this state is...)

Welcome to the Garden!

I read a lot of science fiction, and the monitor that I want is the one that projects an image onto my entire visual field. Like sitting in a cubicle with 4 white walls and a white ceiling, and the image is everywhere you look.

When I have more than on image I want to upload, I put them on a USB dive and bring them to work. We have a fast network here.

At home, I turn off my screensaver, start one upload, and go make coffee or watch TV. Next commerical, next upload.

Oh my, poor Rick!

But, at work, the network is very fast and I have free A/C and heating.

Say, rather, "poor Rick's BOSS".

(Actually, I do work enough unpaid overtime to make up for gardening chit-chat-time.)

Hello Justin!

Welcome, and don't be shy about putting your plants on the ID forum. We nutters here love to find them for you!

If you have any bugs or insects you can't put here in the butterflies forum feel free to come visit me on my BugLife cubit, this is on Dave's other site where we have our own special interest cubits. The link is at the bottom of this post.

Welcome, Justin.

Shoe: "I have a large monitor but not a "modern" one. It must be nearly two feet depthwise, like a tv!
That says your TV is pretty outdated too, Shoe. Now TVs are only 2 inches deep.

Karen

They are!? *thunk

What will they think of next?

Shoe (just happy my computer is running today!. And glad neither of us, my monitor or myself, mind what we look like...after all we sit here and stare at each other all the time!)

Thank you!
All of you are ...
Such welcome! I feel like I got home.
Please just a little patience and soon I'll start uploading photos.

Some photos I loaded them into an album (if it works should start a slideshow):

http://outdoors.webshots.com/s...

But I will upload some here, plus much more.
I want to start a topic "Journey to the Wild Beauty". For starters, only my English writing makes me slow down.
Maybe it's better to start with my pictures and my English will come with time.
I hope

I can read your English writing just fine. (Wait til you see my "Southern writing"..now THAT will confuse ya! *grin)

If you feel you need help with writing/English feel free to "tree mail" me. And I'm sure many others here will lend you a hand as well.

Shoe (will look at your pics when I take my next break)

Justin, if some of us write things you don't understand then please do not feel shy of asking us what we mean. I'm sure in Romania they have "slang" & we have slang here too only we have lots of different kinds of slang. Like Shoe --- he speaks one kind & others have another & still more have another kind. We're likely to mess your mind up pretty bad! And maybe you can teach us some of yours too. That ought to provide some real laughs. You see, we LOVE to laugh more than anything else so we are always making jokes.

I might suggest that you think about starting a Justin blog. That would be very cool. And you could load your photos on there too & tell us about them & some about your country & where these plants grow there. Stuff like that. I would like to learn things of that type.

Justin I enjoyed your slide show, some very pretty plants.

Welcome to ATP, Justin!

I think Anne's suggestion of starting your own blog would be a very good way to showcase your photos.

If you need anything, just click on one of our screen names and send a mail. This is a very helpful bunch of folks.

Welcome Justin!


That is a very pretty blue flower in your avatar - is it Southern anemone ?
I enjoyed the pictures of all the wildflowers in your slideshow also and agree with Chelle and Anne, you should start your own blog.

Most excellent Justin! Most excellent! Your slideshow. Superb photography. I thoroughly enjoyed it & look forward to seeing more from you.

I thought to start a blog, but I think it would be more a pictorial. I even had an attempt on E-blog but for now I gave up. On the other hand, some of my pictures would make sense only if be presented in such a pictorial. Maybe I'll come back to the idea of ​​making a blog.

Thanks for the offer to help me with writing in English.
Usualy I can digest what I read. I'm afraid of misunderstand of my writing. It could result in something funny. But it could result and in something bad, and will not be funny at all.
I will not bore you with that. It may seem strange my insistence but I am no longer young. I am fifty years and I am embarrassed for possible mistakes. So please correct me. Directly or through private message. I need fedback, especially for serious mistakes. I will be grateful even if I will not say every time: thank you. As I said, I do not want to bore you.

I will start to write. I hope will not be too much mistakes. If it will be and one moderator think it is necessary some correction, do it. Directly, no necessary excuse for this.

Christine, I'm glad that you noticed my avatar. Yes, I think it is a Southern anemone, Anemone berlandieri. I was amazed of the the beautiful dark blue. Soon I will load pictures in the forum.

I love the avatar too. It is stunning! I must see if I can grow it in my zone.

Hi Justin, adding my welcome to the rest of the welcomes. This website has a blog sytem that people are refering to, so you do not have to go somewhere else to do a blog. I was not sure if you understood that so I just wanted to make note of it. Again, welcome. Maridell

Justin,
Do me a favor and post a short message written entirely in Romanian. I'd like to try something, if you don't mind ...

Ann, I think these anemones can grow in your area. I hope to post some pictures of these anemone this week.

I have seen the blog on forum. Thank you Maridell.

Gymgirl said:Justin,
Do me a favor and post a short message written entirely in Romanian. I'd like to try something, if you don't mind ...

Cred ca cea mai grea încercare e cand cineva imi cere sa spun ceva in romana.
Nu stiu de ce ma blochez si nu stiu ce sa spun.

Roumanian language uses diacritics for writing of some sounds. With diacritics what I wrote above, must be write so:

Cred că cea mai grea încercare e când cineva îmi cere să spun ceva în română.
Nu știu de ce mă blochez și nu știu ce să spun.


Why? I'm not sure that the meaning of the translation with "Google Translate" to the second sentence is quite correct.

If not enough, I can try to write more.