Paco Dennis
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Is that "Giant Fennel"?
Gardening for nature, walks with my dogs and the books I’m reading.
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PeppermintPatty
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Well you are easy on the eyes.I just shared a link to a Flickr tribute album for Corwin on your-very-favorite-photos from out in nature or a garden thread but maybe I’ll share it here too. These two friends have both passed, Bill on the right several years ago and Corwin in red on the left. Bill was a Jungian analyst and one of my favorites to talk to when my wife’s group of women artists and their mates got together.
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Corwin was a patent lawyer and a really nice guy. He just passed in the last couple weeks having been on hospice care at home for some months. In this photo we are at Corwin and Marjory’s house for the Christmas party several years ago. That’s one of Marjory’s paintings on the wall.
Saturday we’re going to visit Marjory for the first time since he passed when the women artists group meets next Saturday. We’re hosting the group again next month for tea in our garden. Here are photos from past teas in our garden. In the first one Marjory is in turquoise across the table with Corwin beside her. Bill’s widow is wearing the red hat and I’m probably shooting over Bill’s head.
Me talking with my hands again.
I hope you don’t mind me saying so. Nice photo.
MarkD
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Yes it is, AKA Ferula communis.
I was going to say we are out walking near the beach again today but boy the weather wind is blowing to 50 mph so though it’s sunny not a prime conditions. Taking a break now.
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MarkD
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Well you are easy on the eyes.
Nice photo.
Don’t worry I don’t mistake kindness for flirtation.
PeppermintPatty
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Thank you. I don’t want to be too cheeky.Don’t worry I don’t mistake kindness for flirtation.
MarkD
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Thank you. I don’t want to be too cheeky.
Well that’s good because I’m a big cheek man.
#thisisnotaflirt
MarkD
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I’m falling in love with that Giant Fennel. Took a video of it fairly close up to show its contours, shadings and texture.
It’s going to be tough to pull it out when the time comes but I’ve promised my stepson that spot to park in when he is in town. But I’ll be photobombing it while I can.
It’s going to be tough to pull it out when the time comes but I’ve promised my stepson that spot to park in when he is in town. But I’ll be photobombing it while I can.
MarkD
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I posted a picture of my dog's upright, longish ears this morning on he Calling All Dogs thread. But In looking for that one I noticed a lot of pics of her ears from the time she joined us at 2 months old on up and the way the ears evolve is kind of fun to remember.
Within a day or two of arriving they were mostly down like the first two or like she looked at her first vet visit in the 3rd one.
But there was variation before they developed more starch including the shovel head look, swept-back and bent-forward.
Eventually lefty got up first, at first fleetingly,
.. before gaining her adult ears, though a stiff wind can still knock them down.
Within a day or two of arriving they were mostly down like the first two or like she looked at her first vet visit in the 3rd one.
But there was variation before they developed more starch including the shovel head look, swept-back and bent-forward.
Eventually lefty got up first, at first fleetingly,
.. before gaining her adult ears, though a stiff wind can still knock them down.
Sliverfox
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Watching baby Boston Terrier ears grow
Sliverfox
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What surprised me was how his nose got dark. And. the left side is almost all black
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hearlady
Ready for Spring!
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MarkD
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MarkD
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Yesterday we. took our walk at the Regional Parks Botanical Garden in Tilden Regional Park. This park is much beloved in my area for its sheer beauty which it achieves using nothing but native California plants, and a thorough wide ranging collection of them at that. The essence of their mission is captured by this statement: The garden’s primary role is to create beautiful landscapes displaying California’s diverse plant life. Its mission embraces not only aesthetics, but also native plant conservation, public education, and horticultural experimentation designed to bring new native plants into the nursery trade.
Inspired by Hollydolly's Spring Photos thread. Having already posted photos from my garden I figured I'd put these here.
In the San Francisco Bay Area trilliums, Pacific Coast Iris and Ribes sanguineum say spring has arrived. These will be seen in many gardens as well as on walks in nature.
Most trilliums are smaller than the one in the first photo and in this one with my hand for scale, the more colorful Wake Robin variety are both examples of Trillium choropetalum variety Giganteum, something I've never seen on a walk anywhere else.
The first of the last photos also shows up in my garden but here is growing on a stone wall. Some other plants that drew my camera yesterday:
The sequoias and coastal redwoods are always nice to see again too.
Inspired by Hollydolly's Spring Photos thread. Having already posted photos from my garden I figured I'd put these here.
In the San Francisco Bay Area trilliums, Pacific Coast Iris and Ribes sanguineum say spring has arrived. These will be seen in many gardens as well as on walks in nature.
Most trilliums are smaller than the one in the first photo and in this one with my hand for scale, the more colorful Wake Robin variety are both examples of Trillium choropetalum variety Giganteum, something I've never seen on a walk anywhere else.
The first of the last photos also shows up in my garden but here is growing on a stone wall. Some other plants that drew my camera yesterday:
The sequoias and coastal redwoods are always nice to see again too.
palides2021
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Lovely photos! I feel like I just stepped into their world and went for a walk. Thank you!Yesterday we. took our walk at the Regional Parks Botanical Garden in Tilden Regional Park. This park is much beloved in my area for its sheer beauty which it achieves using nothing but native California plants, and a thorough wide ranging collection of them at that. The essence of their mission is captured by this statement: The garden’s primary role is to create beautiful landscapes displaying California’s diverse plant life. Its mission embraces not only aesthetics, but also native plant conservation, public education, and horticultural experimentation designed to bring new native plants into the nursery trade.
Inspired by Hollydolly's Spring Photos thread. Having already posted photos from my garden I figured I'd put these here.
In the San Francisco Bay Area trilliums, Pacific Coast Iris and Ribes sanguineum say spring has arrived. These will be seen in many gardens as well as on walks in nature.
Most trilliums are smaller than the one in the first photo and in this one with my hand for scale, the more colorful Wake Robin variety are both examples of Trillium choropetalum variety Giganteum, something I've never seen on a walk anywhere else.
The first of the last photos also shows up in my garden but here is growing on a stone wall. Some other plants that drew my camera yesterday:
The sequoias and coastal redwoods are always nice to see again too.
MarkD
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- San Francisco Bay Area
Always nice to have the company.
hearlady
Ready for Spring!
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Very nice photos!
MarkD
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First bloom on a plant from down under I bought a few years back whose name I've lost track of. It was an impulse buy and took a while to show its true colors but here it is.
l live in a forest and that is a bifucated boab very very old can you see my uncles face on the right side? the white dog is still very much alive and loves walks - now he just looks bored - the small gray was a sorta terrier but not sure what happened to him as people passed through at times with their dogs! - I brew beer for anyone who likes a glass ; cook snacks ; and flit between the TV and internent - I am taxied for shopping each thursday
MarkD
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Love to see baobabs. Fascinating trees but there aren't many to see near me in spite of all the botanical gardens. I see it says you are in Ozzieland so that clears that up. Can't make out your uncle's face though, lol. I do grow a couple of Queensland Bottle trees which haven't yet developed a lot of belly so not much too look at. I imagine you must be in the Queensland if that Baobab is growing where you are.
The bigger dog looks like he might have a bit of heeler in him. I've had two which were part heeler and they were great dogs. Here they are together when Heidi (behind) was older but still dominant near the San Francisco beach where we enjoy walking.
The mostly black one was half Australian Shepherd (or just Aussie around here), and yes I know you don't have a Shepherd. It is a breed begun here in the US but they slapped that name on them anyway. Our first herding dog was an Aussie named Fletcher. He was geriatric in this photo of him on the left with our then younger heeler/German Shepherd cross at a botanical garden in Northern California where dogs are permitted.
MarkD
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My first posting on a book (I think) is mostly a teaser for a book I just downloaded to my Kindle. Here is the first paragraph from the preface of a book which escaped back at a time was reading many books by the American Jungian Analyst, James Hillman. Fortunately my friend @Stoppelmann mentioned it enough to prick my inteeest.
The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
https://a.co/d/bIkEtEY
From the preface ..
“Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. Aging is built into our physiology; yet, to our puzzlement, human life extends long beyond fertility and outlasts muscular usefulness and sensory acuteness. For this reason we need imaginative ideas that can grace aging and speak to it with the intelligence it deserves. You will find that vision in this book. It offers the promise of refreshing the reader’s mind with a shower of insights whose goal is to affect transitions to later years profoundly, even permanently.”
The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
https://a.co/d/bIkEtEY
From the preface ..
“Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. Aging is built into our physiology; yet, to our puzzlement, human life extends long beyond fertility and outlasts muscular usefulness and sensory acuteness. For this reason we need imaginative ideas that can grace aging and speak to it with the intelligence it deserves. You will find that vision in this book. It offers the promise of refreshing the reader’s mind with a shower of insights whose goal is to affect transitions to later years profoundly, even permanently.”
MarkD
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- San Francisco Bay Area
Another walk in the garden this morning after rain last night. Starting in the back garden.
Then in the side garden.
Then in the side garden.
Sliverfox
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So nice to see your garden & what's in bloom.
April weather has been miserable for my daffodils.
Their blooms are hanging low due to the cold weather.
April weather has been miserable for my daffodils.
Their blooms are hanging low due to the cold weather.
PeppermintPatty
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You have the most beautiful home garden I’ve ever seen. Your hard work has definitely paid off 