PESO: Zinnia

2018-06-25 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
A somewhat abstract rendering of one of the flowers I planted this spring to attract butterflies: http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2018/6/24/zinnia K-5 IIs, FA 100 mm Macro F 2.8 Comments are invited and appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyol

Re: Roberts Rendezvous

2018-06-25 Thread ann sanfedele
pretty hillarious :-) ann On 6/25/2018 9:16 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Chris Mitchell wrote: Not the Mark! variety, but the marque of bike that Bob W and I own. Well, here is one of the Mark! variety: Stan Halpin and his wife Meg were in Boston today and I gave them a brief tour. They repaid me

Re: Roberts Rendezvous

2018-06-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Chris Mitchell wrote: >Not the Mark! variety, but the marque of bike that Bob W and I own. Well, here is one of the Mark! variety: Stan Halpin and his wife Meg were in Boston today and I gave them a brief tour. They repaid me for this with lunch in Cambridge, where we had the waitress take our ph

Re: GESO: back on the road again

2018-06-25 Thread ann sanfedele
ah - more better  re the minimalist sea scape :-) methinks I know what ruffian you caroused with... trouble indeed! ann On 6/25/2018 4:24 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: Dan, Darren, Paul, thanks for the comments. Paul, if I crop and you act as my sales agent, 20% to you... A good day yesterday in Ac

Re: GESO: back on the road again

2018-06-25 Thread Stan Halpin
Dan, Darren, Paul, thanks for the comments. Paul, if I crop and you act as my sales agent, 20% to you... A good day yesterday in Acadia National Park. Just an overview but enough to convince us to go back and spend more time. Today in Boston we met up with some local ruffian and wandered the st

Re: PESO: My Pots of Weed

2018-06-25 Thread ann sanfedele
Dan -- Have to do a bit of advertising here :-) "take me to your milkweed" https://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff/5685588 The shirt originally said "got milkweed?"   but had to be changed because the California Dairy Assoc. pounced (their ad campaign "got milk"was onwhen I first listed the it

Re: PESO: My Pots of Weed

2018-06-25 Thread Alan C
Looks rather different to our Milkweed *(Asclepias*fruticosa) which is the foodplant of local Monarch species. Cannabis is widely grown here - illegally of course. We even found the holy weed in our Church garden! Alan C On 25-Jun-18 07:32 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Thanks for looking, Ala

Re: PESO: My Pots of Weed

2018-06-25 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks for looking, Alan. The subject line was intentionally deceptive, just to get folks to look. These are Milkweek plants. I am growing them on the deck (shown in the PESO images) and in my yard to attract and breed Monarch butterflies. (You may have noticed that I have a thing for butterfli

Re: PESO: My Pots of Weed

2018-06-25 Thread Alan C
They should make good compost! Alan C On 25-Jun-18 05:21 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: This is my new summer project. In addition to several pots on my deck, I planted several young plants around the yard. The potted ones seem to be growing more quickly. This is good as I expect to start usi

PESO: My Pots of Weed

2018-06-25 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
This is my new summer project. In addition to several pots on my deck, I planted several young plants around the yard. The potted ones seem to be growing more quickly. This is good as I expect to start using them later this week. http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2018/6/24/m-

Re: PESO: Summer Magnolia

2018-06-25 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Henk. We have two older and larger magnolia trees that lack the beautiful foliage of this tree. The others losee all there leaves in late fall, and have many white blossoms in early spring, before the new leaves appear. This specimen retains its leaves all winter, and does not bloom all

Re: PESO: Summer Magnolia

2018-06-25 Thread Henk Terhell
Nice colors. Looks like a different variety of magnolia as also the leaves look more shiny than the one we have. Henk Op 2018-06-25 om 04:39 schreef Daniel J. Matyola: Although the spring blossoming of warly magnolia tres is long over, one of my trees continues to produce blossoms throughout