but here's a shot from last spring...

(OT, but it beats snow and 20 degree temps!)

Oh runningfree
That is a warm picture! Sand and sun. OT are surely welcomed! Thanks for posting it! Kathy

Spacecoast Pink Lady X Sundew Grace 2009

this is easy, I used tinypic just use the website code copy and paste on here.......

Close-up of the eye on Whispering-

Bitsy, with an itsy bitsy baby katydid-

Catalpa flowers...they look like orchids, my favorite tree flowers-

Tulip 'Menton'-

Anemone sylvestris-

Campanulas and penstemon-

Salvia transylvanica-

Sun shining on hosta 'Guacamole'-

And its pretty, scented flower-

My favorite hosta, 'Blue Mouse Ears'-

And, finally, looking through the leaves of a dogwood, to the Silver Maple and blue sky-

Karen

~Wes

Bordello Queen X Shores of Time
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Catalpa trees are one of my favorites, they grow fast, have huge heart-shaped leaves, gorgeous flowers and unique bean-shaped pods a foot or more long. Their leaves don't change color in the fall, they just brown up and fall, usually they fall while still green. As for the hosta, yup, it's a small one, the leaves are only a couple inches wide, the plant itself will only get to be roughly ten inches across and six inches tall (minus flowers).

Karen

tepelus, Please do post some more pics of your seedlings! I have some crosses with Shores of Time that should bloom this year.

~Wes

NEXT THE GIFT seedling

colorado blues

This bed now from a different view in the summer.

Karen

~Wes

But shame on me... I should be appreciating all the beauty around me now. The sunrise was gorgeous this morning with all the snow glistening. Still, I want my flowers.

And this is why:

I loved seeing everybody's pictures here. Hope to see more to cure those winter blahs.

Vickie

Outside photohosts such as Photobucket/Flickr/Webshots allow you to upload phots to an online album, from there you can get link code to paste into the text of your message (use the 'html' code option, the post preview will allow you to see if your pics are showing or not). With the tinypic.com url no account is needed, you just browse the folder of your choice and upload your pics individually and it will give you several link codes (again, the 'html' code choice is needed for the pics to show in your post). Hope that helps?

~Wes

That's a dandy Kathy, I can see why it's the "favorite one", too bad that's already registered. Got a larger pic?

I'm off to check on the house where my favorites grow, supposed to hit 40* tomorrow...compared to 1* this morning that'll be like a heat wave!

Anyway, thanks for starting the thread of cheer. Kept me entertained and I learned something cool about a native tree and found a "must have" hosta!

~Wes

Here are some of my shots ...

Tree Peony:

Iris and poppy bud ...

Seedling bed ...

My favorite delphinium

Lily

Fall evening ..

Another favorite pic ... a hot air balloon landing in the neighbors cow pasture.

And 20 lb. Bubba, a feral we raised on a bottle from 2 weeks old after the mom abandoned him and his litter mates bathing Kittle, a little slip of a stray whom we took in:

Sharon

Aren't we lucky to live in the south! Your flowers are beautiful. Can't believe we are this cold in FL. Hoping for warm soon! What those flowers to grow.

And yes, we are lucky to live in the south, even though we are under a winter storm warning, but nothing like up north. I am ready for the flowers to start growing too.

Baby Nudger with Radar in the back ground:

Grown-up Nudger getting in touch with his feminine side:

Sharon