2: Our gardening diaries - from latest toys, flowers to wildlife .. Please upload pics

[Logan]

Alp that's a shame about your shares. Thing is about them they can suddenly change.

 

[alp]

Good morning to all: Yes, I always try to sell them after new year as there would always be a surge near the end of this month. But someone sold them for me. Any after that, the financial services called Equitini kept sending me emails about something which needed to be addressed. I ignore it and then I logged in again and found money sitting in my account since 17 of December. I should really send an email to SagaShares. But I have removed the money as I was scared it would be like the £2.90 from National Lottery. I didn't use Chrome any more.

 

[Logan]

Oh dear. You have to keep up with these things.

 

[alp]

Oh dear. You have to keep up with these things.

 

[Zenj]

Morning all bitter cold real feel -7 at the moment, snow and more to come hibernating weather .

 

[alp]

hibernating weather

Best is to hibernate with wind threatening from the northwest. Quite frightening. Please keep the garage roof for me before I move ...

 

[johnny canoe]

Just a few pictures from the past couple of weeks.
River is frozen over, this hasn't happened in a few years. On my bird feeding route last week.

Bald Eagle watching me feed the little birds.

Edge of my hill, just about home.

 

[alp]

How I envy you! Such a view - a view to edge of the sky. Treasure this please! The world is changing fast.

Just love those little birds, especially the woodpecker. Because of the photos uploaded by Johnny and Zenji, I have tried to go out, just to snap birds.

But before that, I want to share this orchid with you - I was fascinated by the colour combo .. so unique and different

As the sun was out, we headed out to this boring park, trying to capture the parakeets. We were there 11am and lo and behold, the parakeets, like @MaryMary 's cat, probably had their breakfast at 9.20, the time we went to park last Sunday.

Instead, we have tons of goldfinches and one lone bullfinch. I was so thrilled, trying to take pics behind the railings. In the end, I was fed up with the bar taking up my view, so I put my hands through the railings and a suspicious man asked if we were OK. I told him I was filming birds. Sorry for the quality, not so good as @johnny canoe 's as it was very windy. In fact, one of the feeders was swinging to and fro so badly that I had to give up.

Very frustrating as they turned their backs on me!

Hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I am so happy... In the league with @Zenji and @johnny canoe !

 

[alp]

@johnny canoe Has anybody walked across the frozen river?

 

[MaryMary]

Yep, 9:20 sounds about right. I've been giving them three feedings a day instead of the customary two. They need more calories when it's cold out.


It's a double edged sword... I worry about them out there in the cold, but inside... let's just say that they tend to think outside of the box!!


Then I get all and , so my head

and finally,



Back outside they go!!

 

[alp]

Yep, 9:20 sounds about right. I've been giving them three feedings a day instead of the customary two. They need more calories when it's cold out.


It's a double edged sword... I worry about them out there in the cold, but inside... let's just say that they tend to think outside of the box!!


Then I get all and , so my headView attachment 31418 and finally,



Back outside they go!! View attachment 31419

Where do you manage to get your gifs or emojis, @MaryMary ? They just make me giggle! Brill!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Have you looked on the Extended ones @alp .......having said that I think @MaryMary has included a couple of her own as well

Fab pics by the way

 

[MaryMary]

Go to google image search and type in the emotion you want. Then you have to kind of experiment. Try the emotion with "gif" or "emoji" or "smiley" or "emoticon." I specify "small" in the size so that I don't get a huge picture. I always click the image to preview it, I don't want great big smileys. Copy and paste the same way you do pictures you find.

I found this under "bust out laughing smiley emoticons" -

Sometimes if they are animated, you have to copy and paste the preview. They don't all work. You have to be patient. Some of mine, after I post, it comes up instead of the picture. Usually, if I refresh the page, they are there, just not on first post, if that makes sense...

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs...aughing-smiley-emoticon-lmao.gif&action=close



The ones I like a lot, I save in my downloads.

 

[alp]

Have you looked on the Extended ones @alp .......having said that I think @MaryMary has included a couple of her own as well

Fab pics by the way

Er... Where are the extended ones? I'm blushing now.

 

[alp]

I will try that later, once I have finished rendering my videos. Could be a FLOP!