too. Hope you'll find that button again - eventually!


...'a journey of a 1,000 miles' or just a walk in the park...

These six were taken on a walk a couple of days ago. Evening in the foothills - western edge of the Rockies:


Chief Joe. He'll be turning green again soon (I hope).


Plum tree just budding.


Very, very small cougar in our cherry tree.

Randomness in the rain:

Irises mostly in the rain. The one shown most is Tiny Pirate. Don't know what the other two are.

I posted these in a bulb thread. But I wanted them here, too. Next post is what I didn't post in there.

Here are a bunch more in the rain...and a few reference shots, too. Too many...but I guess you don't have to look if you don't want to ;)

@dirtdorphins asked me to take semp pics. So I did. The first bunch I posted in a semp thread.



The next bunch I thought were okay and would post here. They really don't do her gardens justice, though...need broader shots.


The other 137 that I thought were legitimate, I won't bore you with...

Wow! I didn't know that many varieties existed! Perhaps you should publish a book of semps? Could do well, with your photos to illustrate it. My favourite is the itchy-cat-semp.

cliftoncat said:Wow! I didn't know that many varieties existed! Perhaps you should publish a book of semps? Could do well, with your photos to illustrate it. My favourite is the itchy-cat-semp.

Actually, Kevin Vaughn (Jungle Shadows on this site) has just published a book on Semps. You can find it here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0764355120/

Our copy arrives on the 11th. I'm excited to read it.

And he'll be giving a clinic in Oregon at the end of April. Dirtdorphins and I will be driving up to participate. We went a couple of years ago - neat people!!

Here's a link to the description of the clinic:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0764355120/

That's interesting - sadly a bit far for me to travel... but I'll definitely think about ordering the book.

WOW WOW and WOW. Amazing pictures and absolutely amazing gardens. Beautiful Wayyyyy better than lawn

here's a pic from last spring--one of the better ones showing the new rock pile and part of the hill he doesn't have to mow any more


kinda hard to show the full scope of the thing, but you can get an idea anyway...

Dirt you've done an absolutely stunning job with your gardens

Really lovely, Dirt - it seems to have matured really quickly; I seem to remember you posting pics of the work in progress? Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

oh it's still in progress all right

Thank you, thank you much!

So I was trying to take a picture of the garden...and some random quadruped wandered into the frame and buggered up my focus.