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[catspaw]

Because sharp2799 asked, and because slb_44's garden looks so pretty *g*. And also because my computer desk is tidy YAY!



B'day flowers from The Man, bless him :-) I love getting flowers! Also MsB? The Avalon chalice is standing on the fireplace next to the flowers, slightly behind the pussy cat.



Next, aforesaid tidy desk ::is proud::



And four random pictures of the front garden.

Comments

[slb44.livejournal.com]

Ooops! Did I miss your birthday?

Happy Birthday hon.

The flowers are lovely.

Wow! Your garden is waaaay ahead of mine. The first irises are just showing buds and the early clematis are barely open. Of course the whacko weather we've been having probably doesn't help any.

On the other hand you should see the Japanese Tree Peonies. Absolutely spectacular.

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

Oh lovely, tree peonies? I'd love to have some of those in my garden! Pictures, maybe? ::looks hopeful::

Our weather's whacked too - I'm surprised anything has bothered to come out this year quite frankly :-( Warm, cold, warm again, cold again - if I was a plant, I wouldn't bother.

Also thanks for the b'day wishes :-)

[slb44.livejournal.com]

I wish I did have the capability of taking pictures but my camera is dead at the moment. I'm hoping it's the battery and have a new one on order. Hey, it worked for the laptop when everyone else thought it wouldn't. *g* If Ozy had made it down as planned today I would have got her to take some pics. *shrugs*

So it's not just us? It really is global warming? Bummer.

You're welcome, sorry I miss it. Since they took away myLJ I keep doing that. I must start a list somewhere.

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

I hear you about myLJ, we're in the same boat on that one :-( Although did I not read the other day that they're starting email notifications again? I hope so!

::crosses fingers for Lazarus the Camera::

And if this is global warming, I'm telling you, it's been seriously mis-sold to us. Nothing warm OR warming about it, just rain, wind and cold :-(

[slb44.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that about email notifications. If so, that would be very cool. *g*

::crosses fingers for Lazarus the Camera:: Me too!

It's the same here. Either abnormally cold for the most part but we just had a deadly three day heat wave with horrible air pollution readings and now back into the grey, coolness. The forecast says a couple more days of this and then back into the miserable heat etc. Add to that very little rain. It rains all around us but not here. I think we're turning into a desert.

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

*sneaking in* (I *adore* that yard) :)

MyLJ is still there. I bring it up all the time. It's just not at the usual bloody address anymore. *rolls eyes*

www.livejournal.com/portal/

It'll come up, providing you're signed in all the time and it recognizes you, then it brings up your page. :)

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

Well strike me pink so it is! I didn't know that!

Thanks hon :-))

supplementray question

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

How do you access this from your profile page?

Re: supplementray question

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

From the profile page? Unfortunately, I don't know of anything I can access from the profile page. I have that navigation bar at the top of my page whenever I'm on LJ and it doesn't even have that anymore. However, the damn thing is still there. I just save the address on my start page and use that, otherwise I have to type that or my.livejournal.com.

I think it's way past time to go complain. ;)

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

Pretty! Pretty! And your desk puts mine to shame in the cleanliness dept.

Okay, I've got to put my camera to work!

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

*g* the desk was kind of a one off - give it a couple of days and it'll be back to normal again.

Yay! Camera! ::waits happily for photos::

[msbeata.livejournal.com]

Pretty flowers - indoors and out

Hey, thanks for pointing out the chalice!

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the delay over the chalice - I think you asked to see what it looked like about six months ago ::blush::

[msbeata.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't suppose it's changed much since then. ;-P

[kitzen-kat.livejournal.com]

I am very envious of your garden which is *green* and has *flowers*! Very pretty.

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

Well it's spring here as opposed to autumn - and no one could accuse our climate of being even tepid, never mind hot LOL!

[kitzen-kat.livejournal.com]

Even in spring, my garden looked awful. Only a few of my bulbs managed to flower in the drought. I have three blooms on the climbing Double Delight rose and that's it.

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

:-( Drought is impossible to deal with. I'm grateful it's not something I have to cope with regularly - my plants are more likely to drown or to struggle through a cold season.

But now, I'm curious - ignorant too, but that's a given *g* - does your garden thrive better in the winter? See, this is where the ignorance kicks in regarding your climate. I have no idea how cool it gets over there during the winter, nor how much daylight you get, etc. I'm afraid my knowledge is based on Neighbours being on telly around about teatime and the kids watching it while waiting for the calories to appear *g* - so strictly absorption from the background. And the only thing that has 'stuck' from that was one time seeing the cast wearing jerseys and commenting it was chilly - at 60F or so. Which would have everyone out in t-shirts over here ;-)

[kitzen-kat.livejournal.com]

It's going to be a high of 11 C today. I'm freezing my arse off even in my office because the heating only works on one side of the building.

We have frosts that are as low as -6 Celsius so that cuts down on the number of blooms we can have then. There are some winter bulbs, plus camellias and rhododendrons I suppose but the garden usually goes into hibernation. I have fruit trees and a few other deciduous trees so they're all bare and cold.

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

And that's where the ignorance kicked in, right there - I didn't realise that any part of Oz was subject to frost :-(

Good lord, you really get the worst of both worlds, don't you? (((Tilley))) The gardening conditions from hell :-(((