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[alp]

More dahlias

My latest favorite

And I love this begonia

 

[Verdun]

What is the variety in the penultimate picture alp?

 

[alp]

No idea. Lost all my labels .. Nothing new there. I'm hopeless at labelling.

 

[johnny canoe]

Did the fall check on the family cemetery plot yesterday. It was chilly but a good bike ride.

 

[alp]

The penultimate pic reminds of my favorite spot in Hong Kong, Stanley cemetery, and it looked exactly like this. I always took a bus to go there, just to have a look around and to feel sad that some foreign young people would be buried far away from home and they were only 18 to 20s .. Very sad and the place was so quiet and I wonder if it still exists ..

It saddens me to see so many high-rises in Canada.. I thought such a huge country could afford to have lower buildings, just like they do in France. I have to pinch myself that I live in a house with a small garden. I could have lived in a pigeon hole in a high rise like those in the photo.. What price space .. I am very lucky and should count my blessings.

 

[alp]

Stanley cemetery is also by the sea

So, it's still there!

 

[johnny canoe]

Actually I'm just the opposite. I ache when I see habit destroyed and productive farmland swallowed up for urban expansion, industrial and big houses and apartment blocks. Those big towers in the pic are oil companies and big banks, and I want them to stay downtown. I have a customer that lives downtown, it isn't a pigeon hole she lives in. She paid 2million for and entire top floor penthouse. I do the flowers on her balcony which wraps around the entire building. People have plenty of space downtown in their apts.

 

[Logan]

Actually I'm just the opposite. I ache when I see habit destroyed and productive farmland swallowed up for urban expansion, industrial and big houses and apartment blocks. Those big towers in the pic are oil companies and big banks, and I want them to stay downtown. I have a customer that lives downtown, it isn't a pigeon hole she lives in. She paid 2million for and entire top floor penthouse. I do the flowers on her balcony which wraps around the entire building. People have plenty of space downtown in their apts.

@johnny canoe i agree
Morning all

 

[alp]

Good morning to all: @johnny canoe Hope she remembers you in her will! I'm not joking. We love the pleasure of the mind, not of the money; but it does help. She's very lucky .. But if I have 2 million, I would love to have a house overlooking a valley, with a lake, and fresh air.. I don't mind a penthouse though if the views are nice.

I won £5.90 from Euro million and played 2 x £2.50 ticket and lost £2 playing 2 games. So I lost .. But if you supplied me with 6 numbers, I would have a go. Just this once - 5pm is the deadline .. My shopping bill was £2.90 last night with 2 pizzas from Pizza Express!

 

[Verdun]

Good morning everyone
Lovely and sunny at the beach.....apparently a couple of dolphins are just off the beach but I didnt see them.
Mornings like this are so precious at this time of year

 

[alp]

Sun is finally out and it will be another sweaty day for me.. It sounds so nice living your way, @Verdun

Sun, sea, golden fine sand and dolphins ..

 

[johnny canoe]

It was snowing before I went to bed last night. Another cold day and then a warm up.

Hi alp, I also love people free space, I'm a farm boy moved to the city. Growing up I chose being with my horses rather than being with people.

 

[alp]

It was snowing before I went to bed last night. Another cold day and then a warm up.

Hi alp, I also love people free space, I'm a farm boy moved to the city. Growing up I chose being with my horses rather than being with people.

Same here. Parents used to grow watercress minus the water. But they were not the tough land cress I grow here in my garden. The blessed land cress self-germinated everywhere, including inside a pot.

We had fields and my father being the eldest boy had the final say. But he's a nice man and let his brothers name their claims first. I used to have millions of African violets. I talked to them rather than people. Now, I guess I'm making up ..

My mum was very nice. She would work fast and hard and that spoilt me a bit. I kept changing the carpets and wall papers whilst my friend whose husband is a banker has had the same embossed flowery wallpaper for 23 years. Now I know what a spoilt brat I have been..

 

[alp]

30c a few days ago and then snow.. A bit tricky to keep plants alive ..

 

[Logan]

This afternoon tied up some of the blackberries and cut out some of the old stems of the blackcurrants. Dead headed the marigolds, nearly finished flowering. They get mildew this time of year, but not worried because they're annuals. Dead headed the roses, they're still growing. Yesterday had to have more antibiotics,it hasn't gone away yet. Dr. said another weeks worth should do trick.