Friday, May 27, 2022

[Dave]

Looks like everybody (in the US, anyway) got an early start to celebrating the Memorial Day weekend.

Hope it's a good weekend for you all.

Here is a BRIGHT Ketchup-and-Mustard rose (two of them, actually) taken several days ago...

   

[Quint]

Dave, that's one beauty of a rose. Hope you and others have a good Memorial weekend. I've been in the garden and greenhouse trimming and setting supports for my tomatoes that are getting stouter and taller with the good weather. Trim a few suckers and propagate some new tomato plants from suckers. I did manage to get out and retake a photo of the old abandoned tractor covered with blackberry vines. Now its appearance is more concealed with the onset of the vine leaves.

[Dreamin]

Looks like the weekend here is going to have some wonderful weather. That's great as we have had LOTS of rain almost every day for 2 weeks!! Lot's of Memorial Day activities going on around the country in honor of the Fallen, so I hope they have decent weather, too. Have a great weekend, everyone. 
Beautiful! Dave, do you have any roses on  your property? You obviously love roses, I hope you plant some of your own. I am still tempted to plant that pink rose I wanted to buy the other day....it smelled so wonderful. I have two scraggly roses right now....and in a couple of weeks, the Japanese beetles will arive and eat all the buds and blooms. I only get about 3 blooms from each, but oh, my, the aroma. Both are Mr. Lincoln red velvety rose!!! 
Steve, love your tractor!  It's lost it's original purpose but still giving .....
I used to have a lot of rabbits around here, but a few years ago I noticed we had foxes running through my land, and I have not seen many rabbits....it's a shame, but also a blessing to me, as I have to cut the grass, and I do not want to be running over baby rabbits!!


   

[Man From Ironbark]

Red eyes usually indicates myxomatosis. It does in Australia anyway.

[Dreamin]

Red eyes usually indicates myxomatosis. It does in Australia anyway.

I used fill flash, that usually does the red eye thing.....

[Dave]

Thanks Quint. Love your tractor image; the light vignetting was a good choice because it really enhances the image.

Hi Natalie, and thanks. No, I don't grow roses myself. My soil is pretty bad, I don't want to use up so much water, I lack knowledge about how to make roses thrive, and my temperament isn't suited to growing something that requires specific carefully timed and executed intervention. But in a 30-minute around my neighborhood I can see and photograph 40 or more rose plants that are flourishing in the yards of folks who know how to do it right.

Great photo of the rabbit - the fill flash made the eye into a beautiful focal point.