I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that it included at least one gift certificate for a daylily. I also hope the artier and craftier among us are busy working on their fantasy daylily that might win them the dark toothy 'Vampire Diaries' to add to their garden. The first few Fantasy Daylily entries can now be viewed: Here is a link that might be useful: Fantasy Daylily Contest Site

A sole pink TC bloom I've been waiting and waiting for this echeveria to bloom for a few weeks, apparently it's making a larger bloom stalk... Ohh alright... I'll be patient. ;-) Steve, wow! Nice work on those sweet potatoes! One of my favorite vegetables. I love its foliage too. Mike also, check this video out, ha I could do something like this but with a non toxic plant (because of the cats) lol (can skip along to 2:30 to see the foliage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUp2-DqEfOE Mike, what a mesmerizing sunrise and the landscape, wow!!! Great pic love it. ❤ Mother jade so pretty too wearing her flowers. Shavedmonkey, those orchids are really beautiful! What is the scent? (if there is one) Dave, I adore your Orchid! Gorgeous! Nancy, I LOVE your plumeria, I am envious! KC, Ohh my, ohh my, that Jade!!!!!! ❤ -Nancy

I don't post here much because I haven't been reading much of interest. But, I noticed something about my reading. I like to read a book associated with something I've seen or heard. Like, the book the led to a movie or show, or a book about another book (Prairie Fires is on my stack, for example, also The Catalog of Lost Books). So, recently I saw the show "Million Dollar Quartet". I enjoyed it so much I saw it again a week later! I hadn't realized it was based on an actual event, I thought is was just a "what if..." kind of story. Well, that got me looking for the actual recording of the day Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, gathered at Sun Records for a jam session that was recorded. The CD is so fun to listen to with lots of chatter, and there's a book -- also titled Million Dollar Quartet -- written after the show came out, with brief bios of the guys and the founder of Sun up to that day, then about the session, and then a little bit about each track on the recording. So fun! I'm having kind of a "multi-media" moment, a delightful distraction from life.

added to the hill whoever goes planting the dirt is hard. you will bend garden fork. get pick ax, then do fork then hori-hori knife. and grab buckets to get water from that lake. it's bone dry more than pitchfork deep. I did not have buckets, hope for rain the way i did it should catch the rain, some of it, to do it proper the dirt is way too hard, it will need to be done in the spring, mini terracing on that hill then it will start catching the water