Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!

[johnw]

Another lovely film by BotanyBoy, a summer walk in the woods of Kyushu. Some marvelous lilies.



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[johnw]

Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Canadian Arctic near King William Island in the Queen Maud Gulf.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311

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[Maggi Young]

Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Canadian Arctic near King William Island in the Queen Maud Gulf.

johnw

 Sings ...... With a hundred seamen he sailed away, to the frozen ocean in the month of May  To seek that passage around the pole, where we poor sailors do sometimes go........

My goodness , how many times have I sung that song - amazing to think that Lord Franklin's ship has been found at last.

[Anthony Darby]

Quite a lovely haunting song. Heard it a few times in the last couple of weeks.

[arillady]

Yes I heard this news report during the night last night - the radio was on. Finding the ship depended on the melting ice cap!
I had not heard about this before - in the Southern Hemisphere we don't always hear all we should about the north.

[Anthony Darby]

I watch BBC World News. Our "local" news channel is Sky News Australia and we have no Red button! 

[Anthony Darby]

Listening to this http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/29112457 as Yorkshire win the County Championship. Independence for God's Own Country! 

[David Nicholson]

I'll drink to that.

[Maggi Young]

I'll drink to that.

There's a surprise! Is there any wonder the President  has been heard to refer to this as a drinking club with a plant problem?  

[annew]

 

[johnstephen29]

Go Yorkshire, while on the subject of sir john franklin he came from the town of spilsby, only a couple of miles from me in Lincolnshire. One last word good luck to all the scots on here for tomorrow.

[Maggi Young]

Rosarians will enjoy the photos in this twitter page from an  International Rose Show, I think -

https://twitter.com/Shoh_Hanaya

[johnralphcarpenter]

Is it safe to mention the referendum now? Seen in a shop window in Ballater; I, of course, do not have an opinion.

[johnw]

We really have not had much moisture along the coast here since an early & brief April snowfall when the Christies were here.  Ever since no rain has penetrated past the mulch.  It is dry down at least 2 feet and then bedrock just beyond.  As we all know the only thing that will break such a drought here is a hurricane or tropical storm and that will pass through coastal NS this evening.

This is surely the most circuitous route for a storm in a very long time. Hurricane Odile came up from, the south Pacific,  past the western Mexican coast last week, pummeled Cabo San Lucas and the Baja Peninsula with torrential rains and 205k/hr winds, turned east and broke the long-standing Texan drought.  Then it moved southeast through the Gulf of Mexico, through St. Peterburg, Florida, then northeast up the Atlantic and past us tonight.  We could get 70mm or 3" which will be a start.  And wind.  This after our sidewalks, curbs, roadbed have just been replaced and all the big trees' roots having been severed in the process.  Be careful what you wish for. Stay tuned.  Newfoundland will see the worst of it.

Cape Breton had a hard frost Saturday morning!

johnw
19c

[Maggi Young]

More roses shown from the Yorkshire Rosarians Autumn Show from the twitter page of RV Roger
https://twitter.com/thenurseries