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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #45 on: April 18, 2014, 06:23:39 PM »
Quite shameful this has taken so long to sort out. Nonetheless you must be very proud Ralph.
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #46 on: April 18, 2014, 07:45:38 PM »
Yes, and it is nice for his two surviving siblings, my aunts, one of whom is 96.
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #47 on: April 23, 2014, 07:12:30 AM »
Yes, I am so happy
My elder son is getting married at last week of June
I have an exhibition

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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #48 on: April 23, 2014, 11:12:58 AM »
Erika - this is great news - congratulations for these happy events.  Please give my best wishes to your son and his future wife for a happy life together.
Lots of luck for a successful exhibition, too!

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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #49 on: April 23, 2014, 12:08:23 PM »
The Monarch butterflies will be so happy
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South Australia

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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #50 on: April 23, 2014, 01:13:33 PM »
The Monarch butterflies will be so happy
Won't they just!  Super photo of the milkweed flowers (Gomphocarpus ), Pat - really shows how intricately shaped they are.
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #51 on: April 24, 2014, 10:37:40 AM »
I thought it was pretty good getting three stages of flowers too.
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #52 on: April 24, 2014, 11:11:40 AM »
I thought it was pretty good getting three stages of flowers too.
Oh, yes, no argument with that. Very pleasing when you might have needed a whole series of pix to illustrate the sequence.
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #53 on: April 24, 2014, 12:03:27 PM »
I need some more substantial milkweeds. The swan plants (Gomphocarpus fruiticosus) are so easily stripped by just a few caterpillars, and mine are taking a hammering just now! Garden centres sell them, often complete with caterpillars on them. Until recently no caterpillars were surviving the attentions of the Polistes chinensis wasps. Even though the garden is awash with these wasps, they have lost the desire for protein and now leave the caterpillars alone. I only hope the weather holds so they pupate and emerge in time.
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #54 on: June 05, 2014, 12:55:29 PM »
It's grey and raining  but I am still happy - the Scottish Strawberry season has begun- and with a BANG!
Look at this monster berry -


It is the variety 'Premium' - which I'd certainly agree with  :) It was grown in Angus. Super  berries, lots of these whoppers with a gorgeous red colour and a great taste to match - bliss!!
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #55 on: June 05, 2014, 01:17:27 PM »
Maggi I would be a lot happier if I had that strawberry to go with my red sauce. Yep you are right what a miserable day. I have already ate two of my great nieces chocolate bars, by the time she comes tomorrow they will all have gone.

Angie  :)
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #56 on: June 05, 2014, 01:21:58 PM »
Angela - too much chocolate is bad for her - you're doing here a favour by eating it yourself!  ;D

Is that the kind of sauce you find on strawberry tarts you get from the bakers ?  I didn't know you could buy that .
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #57 on: June 05, 2014, 01:36:00 PM »
Hi folks,
We are just back from a gloriously sunny nine day break in beautiful La Grave in the French Alps, where the snowmelt flora was utterly fabulous and the views, food, wine and company were equally amazing.
We chanced upon this meadow on one of the high passes where the seed heads of the Carline Thistle had been blown into strange almost mystical patterns ...
« Last Edit: June 05, 2014, 01:57:29 PM by ranunculus »
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #58 on: June 05, 2014, 01:43:46 PM »
Isn't nature wonderful!
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Re: Yes, I'm so happy, 2014!
« Reply #59 on: June 05, 2014, 01:43:58 PM »
Scottish thistles?  ;D
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