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Bonnie Mauney
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Very cute as is all you ladies do! Love the simple organic nature of the piece!
Could anyone tell me where I can buy burlap 20″ x 15′ for a Christmas project for my daughter her table is 113″ long. I would like to make a runner with no visible seams
Thanks for sharing how you made that adorable stenciled table runner, Bonnie. I have a friend who fainted when the embroidery shop told how much it would be do put stitched monograms on runners at her daughter's wedding reception…I think you have provided a good alternative for a monogram.
I have got to do this! What an awesome idea! And burlap is my friend, so I need to add some stenciling to it. Thanks for sharing!
SImple, yet fabulous!! love it
Bonnie I love this — I'm pinning it for Easter but as you've shown, it can be made for any occasion!
Bonnie! This is the cutest thing ever! I love the simplicity of it! Super cute! I love your blog so much!
Pinning this! It's so great!
Thanks for the inspiration!
That is the cutest! Thanks for the tutorial. I think I can give it a try!
I LOVE burlap, I am going to try this. Thank you so much. Rhonda
Hello to both of you! I'm your newest follower. You two have inspired me! I bet you got those little carrots and the moss bunnies at Pier One? I love that store. After visiting your website and reading your excellent tutorials, I may just get my rusty sewing machine out again! I absolutely love the burlap runner!
LOVE IT!!!!! xo
I'm seeing the cutest stuff today and …. pinning pinning pinning. Thanks so much for showing how. I NEED to do this. Linda
really cute blog!
Love the runner, love burlap, love bunnies, so what's not to love. Thanks for a great tutorial, well done. You know you can wash burlap which takes out the stink and stiffness. Thanks for sharing your creative inspiration at Sunday's Best! Ps – you have over 80 links above would love it if you would add my party also.
This is just beautiful! Thank you for giving the instructions!
Love I need to be making one of these!
Too cute! I love it! Thanks for sharing at Manic Monday!
Adorable! Burlap and monograms are perfect for any season! Visiting from Home Stories A to Z.
Hope you'll share it at my party. It is a linked linky party, so post once and your project appears on 4 great blogs! Stop by- the party goes live on Monday at 9pm each week.
I know your runner will be a hit! Samantha
Thanks for linking up so quickly!! Thrilled to have you! Samantha @ Crafty Texas Girls
I love this. I have some extra burlap leftover from another project and I need to decide what to do with it. I love the monogram.
I LOVE this! New linky friends follower. I would love to have you come and link-up to the Creative Corner Hop. We open it up every Monday to new links and leave it open all week.
That is absolutely adorable. You could do this for so many things. I am envisioning Christmas Thanks so much for sharing at Toot Your Horn Tuesday
What an awesome idea! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
I'd love it if you would link this up to our "It's a Cinch" party!
I'm pinning it!
Love that you went all "math" on this craft. I love this table runner. But then, I pretty much love any craft that you do. I'm forever pinning your posts as inspiration.
Thanks for inspiring me once again.
I was so excited… I saw this thumbnail and KNEW that it was you!! I love that you have your own unique style, and I can pick it out! Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy! Love those bunnies.
Very cute table runner. I must try this. Now are you going to tell us how you got all those linky buttons so uniform and manageable? This inquiring mind would love to know.
This is really so cute! And you make it look so easy. I have to try this for my spring runner.
MY FAVORITE!!! I will be featuring this on SUNDAY!! I hope you will stop by!!
Love this project! The stencil looks amazing … and love the monogrammed version!
Thanks so much for linking it up at our "It's a Cinch" party!
I can't wait to try this! Love the monogrammed version. Talk about a great gift….! ~Delores
Wow, this looks amazing. Thanks for sharing. You have a great blog.I look forward to seeing you at My Dream Canvas. Visiting you from Wow Us Wednesdays.
I love your beautiful runners.
Beautiful burlap perfection…and gotta love a monogram. Thanks so much for sharing this at our party!
I totally love this and the whole tablescape looks fantastic! Those carrot napkins look so cute! Thanks so much for linking up to The Creative Spark – I'll be featuring these tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Love this! and thanks for the tip on how you spaced your dots evenly and in a circle! That's a great "FYI"!
Oh how I love burlap – and your stencils are perfect! Fun for spring and really love that monogram
So glad you joined our Cinch party.
I love this and am pinning it
I am here from the Bunny Hop at the picket fence.
Now following you. Please do stop by my blog and check it out and follow if you'd like.
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Hi Bonnie,
Your runner is so pretty! I love the bunny on it, thanks for telling us how you did it.
Hugs, Cindy
always so inspired when i stop by tip junkie tuesdays!! great post, and hope you'll come visit at my blog where i have a fabulous giveaway right now: http://www.hellolovelyinc.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-giveaway.html
Hi there! This is a terrific tutorial! I'm highlighting it in my Tuesday's Tutorials. The post will be live on Tuesday, April 10th at 7:00am Eastern.
Thanks for sharing it!
I am a newbie to stencilling and am wondering how to use the fabric medium?
Thank you!
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Design Facility is a conceptual "design research facility" composed of 3 instructors and 8 students from Singapore Polytechnic's Experience and Product Design program. At this year's SaloneSatellite show, the group presented a collection of thoroughly considered products under the title basic luxury.
In our explorations within the theme of 'basic luxury' it became clear that the notions of 'basic' and 'luxury' are never valid premises within our everyday. Instead, their meanings and definitions are in constant flux, occasionally complimenatry and at other times, perversely contradictory...our pursuit of 'basic luxury' today will be dictated beyond rationality and expectations, driven by eccentricities, hyper-reality and questions that provoke the most fundamental aspect of our inetraction with the everyday.
This provocation resulted in an interesting if understated show: paint(s), table lamp, chair and decorative objects have an element of surprise embedded in the seemingly mundane. The work of the group is summarized in a similarly understated publication sprinkled with interviews, construction diagrams, quotes and research notes to accompany and contextualize the work.
"Can wall painting depart from mere cosmetic and surface protection?" These three paint concepts explore a new functionality for wall paint, creating unexpected spaces for our daily needs. I especially love the custom paint-brushes for applying the paint.
Texture paint includes "dodecahedron granules" to create small hooks on the surface of the wall:
Moldable paint creates small ledges on the wall for storing small tools or utensils:
Flexible paint allows the user to pull paint away from the wall to create pockets or loops of differing sizes and stability:
"Can we sit on a chair with the intent to experience sitting only?" Structured a bit like an electric chair, this chair restricts the sitter's position in a way that, "encourages one to sit without feeling compelled to do anything else." Although it wouldn't win any prizes for comfort, this seat focuses the user's attention to the act of sitting, not relaxing.
"What is our actual experience of fresh flowers sitting on the dining table?" This paper flower simulates the color and scent of fake flowers.
"What if a study lamp is now tasked to help remove distractions?" This table lamp casts a concentrated beam of light in the form and size of the ubiquitous A4 (8.5"x11") sheet of paper.


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Here are Terry Sawchuck's shoulder pads, barely more than felt and worn to fraying at the edges. Here is a Jean Beliveau stick, circa 1969, with just the faintest hint of a toe curve. Here is Mario Lemieux's junior jersey, adorned with some strange symbol like a three-dimensional rendering of a Tetris piece. Here are some NHA skates, low leather boots and barrel-mounted blades. Here are moth-eaten Bruins sweaters, knit from wool in stripes of caramel and mustard.
These are the holy relics of hockey. They were never meant to be venerated. Hockey stuff is not the stuff of forever, it's the stuff of now, and it's meant to be sweated into, spat on, bled through, and thrown away. Used hard and used up. Most sticks end their lives broken in a trash can, along with gloves worn through at the palms and skates gone soft at the ankles. That's how it's supposed to be.
But every now and then it doesn't go that way. Sometimes, because a piece of gear was on a particularly special body at a particularly special moment, it doesn't get tossed. Someone squirrels it away somewhere, in a closet or a basement or a cedar chest, and then some twenty years later when that specialness has had time to blossom into legend, they dig it up and send it to the Hockey Hall of Fame, where we can go to ooh and ahh over it while assiduously trying not to think about all the bodily fluids it must have absorbed in its pre-sanctified days.
All museums- and make no mistake, the Hockey Hall of Fame is a museum- are temples to the mysterious, quasi-holy power of original things. We venerate an authentic, original thing with an almost reflexive veneration, as though we could really feel the aura of its antiquity wafting off it like the odor of sanctity off the tibia of St. Barbara. At some point, when an object crosses the line from merely old to fully antique, it gains power over us. We stop thinking of it as a thing to be used and start thinking of it as a thing to be stared at.
Perhaps these artifacts are our sense of immortality. When the moment has passed and the people who were there have died and the living memory has faded, the objects remain. A record from the 1940s is nothing to us now except a number on a page, but when you see the stick that shot the shot and the puck that hit the twine and the dark eyes of some long-dead star staring out from the celebratory photos, self-same puck in hand, it seems a little bit more really real. These things are the same things that they used- not copies, not replicas, not photos or pixels, but the real-real objects. We carefully preserve the things in these climate-controlled cases to preserve the echoes of the moment, and maybe some small part of a human soul.
I am lingering over an old helmet and thinking these so-deep thoughts when a group of teenage girls whirl past me with the chattery bustle that only teenage girls in a group of four or more can generate.
"So we can touch it?"
"Like, really touch it? However we want?"
"It's not, like, illegal or anything?"
"No, you can totally touch it, anywhere."
"You can't pick it up or anything."
"Yeah, but you can still touch it."
"Are you sure?"
And then they're gone out of the room again, leaving all us quiet elders staring reverentially into our glass boxes. There's only one place they could be going.
There's only one thing you can touch here.
It stands on a platform under a great glass dome, upstairs in an airy room with the warm afternoon sun pouring in the windows. Most of the artifacts in the Hall of Fame pass their days in a perpetual, artificial dusk, underground like they'd been buried with their dead. The Stanley Cup, though, lives in the light.
We look at it from afar for a while. It's someone else's turn, a group of three friends who are getting their picture taken with it. They cluster tightly around it's body, one with an arm around it's back, another with a hand on its belly, big smiles all around. The old man working the camera gives directions- you crouch down a little more, you lean to the left a bit, keep your eyes open- and takes several shots. Then he hands them a card and they, with a few final loving strokes, make their way to the gift shop. My turn.
Compared to the other trophies in the room, which are all in glass cases and polished to a positively retina-searing shine, the Stanley Cup is slightly dingy up close. Not too much, just a little. It's got fingerprints all over it and a little bit of tarnish around the edges of the rings. The deep parts of the engravings are black with old dirt. It's still a big shiny thing, but get close enough to fog it with your breath and you can see the evidence of its ongoing use. The holiest relic in the whole place, and it's the only one not kept in an isolation tank.
"This isn't the real one." His statement breaks my reverie like a hammer on glass.
He's running a finger over the names on one side, as if he could feel whether or not they were true. "No. There's no errors." He pulls me over by the arm, to where he's examining some of the Oilers dynasty inscriptions. "Look, Peter Pocklington put his dad's name on the Cup, and they had to X it out later. The real Cup would have a row of Xs along here."
The old caretaker, sitting on a bench of to the side, snorts derisively. "That's not this one, that's the other one. They've got it downstairs somewhere. There's two, y'know. They switch 'em around sometimes."
Julian looks up. "Well, one's the Presentation Cup, right? The one that goes to the winners every year, the one that travels around. The other's just a replica."
The old man shakes his head. "Nah, they use 'em both. Depends which one's cleaner, or if something needs repairs. Either way."
"Wait, so the Cup-winning team doesn't necessarily get the same one every year?"
" 'Course not, otherwise why would they have two ? Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's t'other."
Julian is skeptical. This is not the official story. The official story is that one of the two identical big Stanley Cups is the Presentation Cup, the one with the errors that is given to the winning team every year, and the other is a replica which sits in the Hall of Fame when the Presentation Cup is traveling, and occasionally does other media appearances on its behalf. This is the NHL's compromise attempt to preserve the aura of the original.
I'd like to believe the official story, that there is still only one Cup that gets passed around as 'The Cup', despite the fact that there are actually three Stanley Cups currently in existence. It'd like to think this old caretaker doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, with his blithe insistence that the League just switches the trophies around according to their whims. I'd like to trust the NHL when it comes to the authenticity of the most storied prize in all of professional sports.
But they've lied about it before.
It was 1962, and the Stanley Cup was getting fragile. This is, in itself, not surprising. It was seventy years old, and it had been a hard seventy years. In the time since Lord Stanley donated it as the Dominion Challenge Cup, it had been awarded to dozens of teams and partied with hundreds of players. It had been used as a chair, a planter, an incinerator, and a urinal. It had been filled with more kinds of liquor than most of us could name. It had been kicked, burned, thrown, scratched with nails and left on the side of the road. And in 1961, it had nearly been stolen, when a disgruntled Canadiens fan broke into its display case in Chicago and attempted to carry it back to Montreal.
It was a raucous life for a Victorian punch bowl, and the wear was starting to show. The thing had been soldered and hammered back into shape so many times, buffed and polished so frequently that it was literally eroding, the silver itself becoming thin and brittle. It was a crisis: the lifestyle of the Stanley Cup, the very traditions that made it so beloved and so desirable, were destroying it.
And so the NHL did the only practical thing a League can do in such a predicament: they commissioned a copy.
The man who made it was Carl Petersen, a Danish silversmith who had been the official engraver of the Cup since 1948. Over the winter of 1962 and into 1963, he carefully copied the structure of the original trophy, shaping the bowl and the rings to look exactly like the original. Then he got a friend, Barry Wilmont, a Canadian who'd lived most of his life in Denmark, to do the engravings.
It was painstaking, delicate work. Wilmont kept both trophies on cushions on his dining room table, throwing blankets over them when he had company. He used dyes and paper to lift impressions of the inscriptions from the original and press them over the copy. Everything had to match exactly, not just the names and the dates but the size, script, and depth of every word. Every space and every serif, down to the very smallest, had to be identical.
When he had finally finished copying the inscriptions, he copied the damage. The slight dents from the famous drop-kick into the Rideau Canal were delicately remade with hammers, the scratches Lester Patrick's kids made with nails artfully chiseled into place. The work took four months to complete, and when it was done, the two Cups were indistinguishable to the eye. Only touch could tell the difference- the bowl on the original was frail, like glass, compared to the sturdy new silver of the replica.
Wilmont delivered both Cups, the original and the copy, to the NHL in the summer of 1963. He was instructed to tell no one about what he had done for at least ten years, and the original Cup was- we think- deposited in a bank vault in Ottawa. The following spring, in 1964, when the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup, they were presented with the Petersen/Wilmont copy. They were told that it was the original.
It was a forgery. It sounds harsh but there's really no other honest way to say it: the NHL forged the Stanley Cup. They made a precise copy and told everyone, the public, the caretakers, and the rightful winning team, that it was the real thing. They kept up the lie for three years.
I wonder if there was any outrage in 1967, when the League finally came clean about their forgery. If there was, I have found no reference to it, but it seems curious that the hockey world would just accept both the substitution and the deceit quietly. Perhaps everyone, having already been fooled for three years by the replica, was simply too embarrassed to complain. Perhaps they were ashamed to learn that they could not, in fact, sense the aura of authenticity that supposedly distinguishes an original from a copy. Perhaps they realized they just didn't care all that much.
By the time the third Cup was made, in 1993, the NHL didn't need to bother to cover it up.
This is the strange paradox of the Stanley Cup: it is not what it is. We talk about it in the singular- the Stanley Cup- and tell tales of its travails and adventures over the past hundred-plus years as though they had all happened to the same object. We make a big to-do about how it is the most unique trophy in all sports, about how the winners never really get to own it but only spend time with it for a while, about how it is never copied, about how there is only one. The superstitions that accrue to it, like the rule about how a player cannot touch it unless he's won it, imply that it is one, singular, unique object.
At this point, the Trinitarian nature of the Cup has become something everyone knows but sort of pretends they don't, a kind of open secret. The Hockey Hall of Fame will tell you there are three Cups and explain the differences between them, they're not hiding it, but at the same time you're never going to walk up into that holy of holies and see two of 'em sitting next to each other on that platform. It would blow people's minds in all the wrong ways. We've reached a point where we can accept that there's more than one Cup so long as we never have to see more than one at the same time.
"People don't even want to see the real Cup anymore. It's right over there, in the vault, I always tell 'em, but half of 'em don't even want to go look." He waves his hand towards the opposite end of the room. "Nobody cares about the real Cup."
This is what should be known as the Curmudgeon's Dare. When some older person makes a blanket statement about what younger people no longer understand/appreciate/care about, if you are a younger person, you are more or less obligated at that point to defend your generation by demonstrating that you do so understand/appreciate/care. So, of course, we go to the vault.
The original Stanley Cup, or the real Stanley Cup, or the first Stanley Cup, however you want to think about it, looks- as advertised- just like the other two. Smaller, of course. It's been stripped of all its rings, reduced back to its original form, a nice silver bowl perched on a nice dark wood base. If there is any visible difference between it and the big shiny thing in the next room, it is only a slight variation in color- the original Cup has a little bit of a golden tinge to it, as if were a sepia photograph of the colder, brighter bowl on the replica trophy. But even that may only be the trick of the light. In every other way, it is completely identical. It is displayed decorously out of the sight lines of the replica on the podium. In a glass case.
The official story is that you can touch the Cup, like the teenage girls said. The official story is that it is not like all these other artifacts, that it is not some delicate relic in a clear coffin, but a living thing. The Stanley Cup isn't supposed to be some rarified princess prize, it's a muscular, worldly thing, the kind of trophy that goes to strip clubs and gets filled with tequila and jumps in swimming pools. The Stanley Cup plays out in object form the way we like to think of hockey players- perennially young and strong and irreverent. This is it's unique mythology, the substance of it's legend, the idea that it survives forever under all our hands, that it is the one miraculous object that can be hugged and kissed and danced with and thrown and burned and beaten and screwed and filled with everything and hoisted again and again and again and pawed by thousands upon thousands of eager fans and still survive. It's the toughest trophy in sports.
It's all a lie, though. Or maybe not a lie, but a convenient fiction. The Stanley Cup got old. It got old and worn down and used up, it reached a point where it just couldn't party anymore. That's the thing about use and love, it wears down objects as surely as people. They are no more immortal, out in the wide world and exposed to the elements, than we are. At some point, if they are going to endure, they have to be mummified, or they will decay and eventually disappear.
We cannot have it both ways, we cannot have an original, authentic object and also put it through what the Cup is supposed to go through. The NHL, given the choice between the eventual destruction of the original and foisting a replica on the world, chose the latter. We've been playing along ever since, believing with a belief born of theological practice that although the Cup is three, it is one. And we can still touch it.


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BANGALORE: The high court on Friday ordered notices to the ministry of civil aviation, director general of civil aviation, Airports Authority of India and Bangalore International Airport Ltd over a PIL challenging the construction of a star hotel near the airport.
A vacation division bench headed by Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh ordered notices following a PIL by advocate G R Mohan.
"The hotel being built by BIAL is just half a kilometre from the air terminal and it is in violation of the provisions of the Aircraft Act, 1934 and Aircraft Rules, 1937. The hotel will compromise the safety aspect of the airport since it's being used by most VVIPs and dignitaries as anybody can use the hotel premises to target them. The civil aviation ministry has failed in its duty," the petitioner started while seeking demolition of the structure.
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Nick Foligno of the Ottawa Senators has done a little bit of everything over the past week or so, including laying some (arguably questionable) hits, throwing some punches, and scoring one bad.ass. goal against the Washington Capitals.
But he wasn't alone in doing the dazzling. Check out this weeks "top 5 goals" highlight package below.
Steppan's coast-to-coast shorthanded goal was a thing of beauty. Far-side cheese? Nice finish.
And narrowing it down to the busy schedule of just the weekend, we dug up the best hit, fight, save and goal, just for you.
Enjoy below.
That hit looked solid. Man I'm glad I blog for a living now.


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Disney Has Updated The Fort Website
Disney has recently redone their main WDW website and with it all the resort pages including the Fort. https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/re...erness-resort/ I like the new look. One new thing is once you select each type of site the rates are laid on on a monthly calendar. That's a good thing since the old style made you guess where your dates would be (and they were creating more and more rate windows/periods). Click the "view price per night" link and then the "seasonal pricing" link to get the calendar view. I found it interesting they used a Disney rental tent for the pictures for the Preferred sites (in addition to the Popup/Tent sites). Premium pictures appear to have been taken in 1100 and Popup/Tent in 2000. In their pictures they also seem to show the site from multiple angles and include pictures of the cable hook, the power plugs and breakers, the utility post with the water, and the grill/picnic table. What do you folks notice about the new site? What do you think about it? Bama ED |
I love the new site. Like you mentioned the calender with day to day pricing is really nice. I haven't mastered the restaurants section yet. I have found it easier to use and just really like the design all together. Will have to check out the pics of the Fort when I get on the computer tonight.
Love, love, love the new way to view pricing! Like mentioned above, I hated trying to guess what season was when and make it all match up. Especially when looking at various resorts because not each one was the same! Wonderful job on WDW part for a website upgrade! :thumbsup2
I love it!
The pictures will certainly help answer a lot of the questions that folks post here. I think they show the differences in the pads, grills, and the picnic tables wonderfully! |
Love it! Thanks for suggesting a look-see!
I purposely didn't post anything originally about 2013 rates in my original post and I don't want this thread to be a gripe-fest about rates. :sad2: It's a constant battle between consumers and providers. The Fort is a pleasant diversion but not a NECESSARY one. I have other things I want to see/do/experience in my life and I'll weigh a Fort return visit against these opportunities. I will say the scale is tipping more toward those other experiences. The cost of an adult entry <AP, 10-day, whatever> to the parks is eclipsing the incremental value it offers over the last visit I had. Also I'm hoping to visit the Fort in more of the off seasons in the future as I approach empty nest-hood. :thumbsup2 Bama ED |
I don't see the " no expiration" option on the tickets. Am I missing it or did they take away the option?
I have 8 days on a non expiring from last year. I plan to use it this year and then on 1 more trip. |
If my wife had seen the new picks before our first trip she would not have worried about how nice the Fort is. She was worried it would look like a "trailer park".
I noticed from the site pics that the preferred and full hookup sites have 50amp, 30amp and one 20amp service.
While the premium and pop up sites have 50,30, and two 20amp service. This might not matter to a lot of people but if you have a really power hungry rig, then the preferred or full hook up might not have enough power. I am thinking along the lines of people that have to use a cheater box to get a second 50 amp by combining the 30 and 20 services. |
I must be blind this morning but I couldn't find any site pics,is it because of my ipad,could I be directed where these might be
Thanks |
click on "Room Rates" and then you can view photos for each site
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Welcome to Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Birmingham-Inverness 280 Experience southern hospitality at our boutique-sytle hotel in Birmingham, AL, USA located on Hwy 280 off Interstate 459. The hotel is situated near several attractions including the famous Barber Motorsports, Porsche Sports Driving School and Talladega Super Speedway, which houses a 143,000 seat raceway and is adjacent to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and Museum. Families can appreciate the hotel's proximity to several popular family-friendly Birmingham attractions including Legion Field, the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Vulcan Park and Alabama Adventure Theme Park. For a look back into history, guests can visit the Civil Rights sites that mark the Souths struggle to embrace diversity. Monumental sites consist of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Kelly Ingram Part, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Unlike other Birmingham hotels, the Holiday Inn Express Birmingham Hotel provides business travelers with several quality business services, which include on-site meeting rooms and a 24-hour business center. High-speed, wireless Internet access is also available. During your Birmingham vacation, enjoy our choice hotel amenities such as an indoor pool & whirlpool, free Internet access and a complimentary, hot breakfast bar. Check out our great Birmingham hotel deals and rates and book your reservation today.
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· Accessible facilities· Air conditioning individually controlled in room
· Bathtub
· Buffet breakfast
· Car rental desk
· Coffee/Tea maker
· Color television
· Complimentary breakfast
· Cribs
· Desk with lamp
· Dry cleaning
· Evening reception
· Free newspaper
· Free parking
· Hairdryer
· High speed internet access for laptop in public areas
· High speed internet connection
· Housekeeping - daily
· Housekeeping - weekly
· Ice machine
· Indoor pool
· Interior corridors
· Ironing board
· Kitchenette
· Late check-out available
· Lounges/bars
· Lounges/bars
· Meal included - continental breakfast
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· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 3:00 PM
· Check out time is 11:00 AM
· Time Zone is GMT
· Opened in 2007
· Renovated in 01/01/2007
· 96 rooms.
· 35 suites.
· 5 floors.
Restaurant Information
Logan's RoadhouseLogan's Roadhouse and Dixie Fish Co., both located 1/2 block from the hotel, have dining and bar services. Dixie Fish has an (year round) outdoor and an indoor bar. Dixie Fish has live entertaininment Thur. - Sun. (schedule subject to change, contact es
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- BIRMINGHAM- Legion Field
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- Talladega Super SpeedwayThe World Famous Talladega Superspeedway! Home to NASCAR and many other racing events.
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As William Shakespeare famously observed about a rose, the name of something doesn't have to be a good indicator of what it actually is.
When you hear the word "SkySong," what is that the name of? A classical aria sung with light soprano voices floating over a pastoral glen? Puffy musical notes floating overhead, made by a skywriter? Maybe. Well, no.
It's the name of what was the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, which itself was an abbreviation of an original name given the high-tech incubator that was about twice as long. It's taken from the name given a sail-like shade structure to be built over the project's main square that is part art, part science: Lovely to look at, it also will keep the Arizona sun from baking pedestrians.
The name "SkySong" now covers the whole project and is officially accompanied by these sub-phrases: "Innovation. Technology. Imagination."
Of course, this latest incarnation dropped the names of the two entities coming up with about $300 million to build and service it, Arizona State University and Scottsdale.
Mayor Mary Manross, who said she finds the new name "very catchy," said she doesn't think Scottsdale's reputation will suffer.
Bank One Ballpark — now Chase Field — didn't have its location, Phoenix, in its name, but soon after it opened, "everybody was talking about 'BOB in Phoenix,' " she said. "Someday people will be talking about 'SkySong in Scottsdale.' "
But what do columnists and politicians know? Let's bring in an advertising executive, someone who knows how to create images through slogans and catchphrases.
Jos Anshell, chief executive officer of the major Phoenix advertising firm, Moses Anshell, admitted that his initial reaction against "SkySong" went the other direction once the name started to grow on him.
"At first, it made me think of Delta Airlines' shuttle service, 'Song,' so it reminded me of a failing airline," said Anshell, who said his firm isn't currently doing any work for ASU, though it had in the past. Then he did some free word association.
"But then I looked at it, said, 'OK, it's about incubating, free thinking, free thinkers, open, free,' " he said. "The more I thought about it, the more I liked it."
Shorter, catchier names work, he said, even if they don't conjure up much association with anything.
He said that 30 years ago, most people would have looked at a certain nowfamous "swoosh" logo and would have said, "Nike? What's that, a missile?"
"Look at Google and Yahoo," he said. "If there were UFOs flying over them, they'd say, 'That's why we're not stopping here. There's no intelligent life down there.' "
Above all, Anshell said, SkySong fits ASU President Michael Crow's desire to create a new kind of university by forcing people to think about things differently.
"Educational communication is steeped in the past," he said. "Whenever you encourage thinking outside the box, you get people scratching their heads."
Perhaps. Frankly, though, enough people in Scottsdale have been scratching their heads over this piece of land for too many years now.
But what the heck. How about this head-scratcher of a name? "SkyPie."


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What do I do if I want to get pregnant?
Little is known about pregnancy after weight-loss surgery. Due to potential vitamin B and folate deficiency after gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and BPD/DS surgery, we suggest that you wait for at least 18 months after surgery to have a child. On the other hand, if you have a Lap-Band, you do not have the same nutritional risks, and can safely get pregnant within 6 months after surgery. You may however need to have your band loosened, so you should make your surgeon aware. After delivery, the band can be tightened accordingly.
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Aberdeen crack dealer sentenced to 10 years in prison
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Eric Robles, a/k/a "Chin," age 35, of Abingdon, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
According to Robles' guilty plea, during December 2007, detectives with the Harford County Task Force began an investigation of an individual known as "Chin," who was believed to be selling large quantities of cocaine in the Aberdeen area, which he obtained from a source in New York. "Chin" was later identified as Eric Robles. On December 19, 2007, law enforcement obtained an order authorizing the installation of GPS devices on Robles' vehicles and on December 20, 2007, was alerted by the GPS that Robles was traveling from Maryland, northbound on Interstate 95. The device showed that Robles entered New York City and left after less than two hours. Based on this information, detectives began surveillance of Robles vehicle as it re-entered Maryland. The detectives noted that Robles was traveling at speeds of up to 80 miles an hour and contacted Maryland State Police who performed a traffic stop. A certified drug dog scanned the vehicle and alerted to the presence of drugs. A search was conducted and 76 grams of crack cocaine was recovered from the engine compartment. A subsequent search at Robles home recovered marijuana, a digital scale containing cocaine, ecstasy pills and $897.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Harford County Task Force and the Maryland State Police for their investigative work and commended Special Assistant United States Attorney Christine Celeste a cross-designated Baltimore City Assistant State's Attorney assigned to drug cases, and Assistant United States Attorney Christopher J. Romano, who prosecuted the case.


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Bringing Light to the World Wide Web: Antiochian Archdiocese Online
by Douglas Cramer
"Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols . Therefore he reasoned . . . in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there . "
Acts 17: 16-17
Throughout the New Testament, we find stories of St. Paul making use of the tools of his day to communicate the Gospel and engage in the marketplace of ideas. From ships to the postal service, St. Paul used the communications systems of the Roman Empire in service of our Lord Jesus Christ. This model continues to guide the Church today, as we seek to use well the tools of our society to communicate with each other, and with the world beyond. The most significant communications technology of today is also the one that is so new that we are still coming to grips with its place in our lives: the Internet.
Well over a billion people across the world are estimated to have used the Internet in December of 2007 alone, including 250 million North Americans, over 70% of our continent's population. An Internet business expert recently noted that, "the Internet is one big gigantic never-ending computer conference call, with people joining in and dropping out all the time." This raises an important question for us at the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America: "What do we have to say?" The answer is, "A lot!"
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He wound up first in Hamburg, Germany, and then, sponsored by Catholic Family Services, made the move to -- of all places -- Amarillo, Texas. After a couple of unremarkable years there, he remembers, "I met a Polish guy, and he said, 'I live in Colorado, and it's like Poland.' I said, 'Really?' When I was in Texas, I thought the whole United States has no trees. But I come to see Colorado and discovered that this country does have trees and mountains."
Something about Colorado did look familiar, so he decided to stay. He'd saved up enough money to buy an old blue pickup truck. In 1983 he loaded it with his pigeons -- he'd never abandoned the hobby -- and drove from Texas to Denver. The day he arrived, he built a coop for his birds. In 1989 he bought a house, and his mother flew over from Poland to live with him. (She has since gone back.) She arrived bearing Polish pigeon eggs in her luggage, and Adugalski began breeding at once, building a genetically superior stock of racing pigeon. In 1996 he moved to his current house so he could have even more room to breed his better birds.
He'd begun entering local races in 1990 and was meeting with wonderful success. Many times his pigeons arrived home first. In several races his birds would take three of the top four places. Emboldened by his local victories, he decided to hit the big time -- the national and international homing-pigeon racing circuit. His first international race was in China; he came in seventh. Later he began entering his birds in races being held in places like Thailand and Africa, Detroit and Las Vegas, Florida and Baltimore. If his birds could have earned him frequent-flier miles, he would never have had to pay for a plane ticket again.
The week of my first message exchange with Dick Wadhams ends, and the days waiting for the governor to chat about his reported hobby turn into weeks. A month goes by. In a slow moment, I place another call to the press secretary. Friendly has not worked, so I downshift into barefaced toadying.
"Uh, I'm calling just to remind you that -- heh-heh -- I'm still interested in talking to the governor about pigeon racing. Let me know when he has time. I won't need more than a few minutes..."
As the days pass, I learn from reading the papers that Owens has found a few spare moments to chat to Barbara Walters about a Boulder murder. He has carved out some hours here and there to hammer out a new education plan for grading schools, and he squeezed in a Scottish jig at a Scottish Day photo op. But he "has no time" to discuss pigeons.
There is something desperate and moving about homing pigeons. Their one skill -- the thing they are trained to do from birth -- is to return home from wherever they may be. Yet their genetics also say that where, exactly, they consider home can be taught: They are programmed to return to the place they remember when growing up.
In practice, this means that to enter a bird in a faraway race, it must mature at that location and learn to know its new home at the finish line. Adugalski begins shipping his pigeons to race locations when they are about three or four weeks old. They arrive some eight months before the race starts. This spring, he has already sent 26 birds to Detroit for a race in October and six birds to South Africa for a January contest. Sometime in the next few weeks, he will send another twelve birds to Beijing for an October race there.
On the day of the race, the birds are loaded into a truck and driven to the starting line, which typically is several hundred miles from the finish. There the pigeons are released all at once in a great burst and flutter. The pigeons can fly several thousand feet every minute. At last year's race in China, the winning bird, pushed by a steady tail wind, covered the 200-mile course in about six and a half hours. When a pigeon arrives at its home loft at the finish, an electronic scanner reads a small tag on its leg and records the time.
Although fabulous riches await the fastest birds, pigeon racing -- at least among serious practitioners -- can be an expensive hobby to enter into. It can deplete your wallet before the starting gun even sounds. Entry fees for the races vary, but most major events these days charge about $1,000 per bird. Then, once the birds arrive, a local trainer must be hired to teach them to return to a nearby loft, an expense that tacks on another couple of hundred bucks. When all of the loft fees and handling charges are added up, it is not unusual for each pigeon entered in a race to cost $3,000.
Indeed, for those who are serious about it, pigeon racing can be nearly as dear an avocation as thoroughbred horse racing. Well-bred birds, purchased directly for racing or for breeding, typically cost thousands of dollars, and prices can soar much higher. This past winter a California fancier paid $30,000 for a single bird. In England recently, one pigeon sold for $202,000.


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Note: Pansy Ellen Products is now Kids II, Inc.
Originally issued May 3, 1993; Revised June 21, 2001
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Release # 93-066
PRODUCT: "Graduate Booster Seat," model #415 and model #4156 sold by Kids II (formerly Pansy Ellen Products). Model #415 booster seats with a blue base and a white seat that fits into four different slotted positions were recalled on March 4, 1993. The recall is now being expanded to include model #4156 and booster seats with a white base and a red seat. The back of the base is labeled in part: "THE GRADUATE* Pansy Ellen." PROBLEM: The seat component may either slide out of the slot in the chair base or fall from its slotted position due to inadequate engagement between the seat and the base. Kids II is aware of at least 527 such incidents. Minor injuries have occurred including bumps, cuts and bruises. WHAT TO DO: Consumers should examine their "Graduate Booster Seat," model #415 or model #4156. If the seat does not fit securely into the slots of the base, immediately discontinue use of the product. The consumer can obtain a $5.00 partial refund by sending the white or red seat component of the booster seat to: Kids II, Inc., 1245 Old Alpharetta Road, Alpharetta, GA 30202. Consumers with questions may call Kids II (formerly Pansy Ellen Products) at (770) 751-0442. WASHINGTON, DC -- In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Kids II, Inc. (formerly Pansy Ellen Products, Inc.), of Alpharetta, GA, is voluntarily recalling certain "Graduate Booster Seats," model #415 and model #4156. On certain of the booster seats the plastic seat may either slide out of the slot in the chair base or fall from its slotted position. Kids II is aware of more than 527 complaints of seat failures, and some of the reported incidents have resulted in bumps, cuts and bruises to the children. The Graduate Booster Seat, model #415, with a blue base and a white seat was recalled on March 4, 1993. The recall is now being expanded to include model #4156 and booster seats with a white base and a red seat. The seat slides into four different slotted positions in the seat base. The back of the booster seat is labeled, in part: "THE GRADUATE* Pansy Ellen." Approximately 680,000 of the affected booster seats were sold in retail stores nationwide from 1987 through 1991. The seats retailed for between $10.99 to $13.99 each. Consumers should examine their "Graduate Booster Seats," model #415, and model #4156 to make certain that the plastic seat fits securely into the slots of the seat base. If the seat does not fit securely, the consumer can obtain a $5.00 partial refund by sending the white or red seat component of the booster seat to Kids II, Inc., 1245 Old Alpharetta Road, Alpharetta, GA 30202. Consumers with questions about this recall may contact Kids II (formerly Pansy Ellen Products) at (770) 751-0442. CPSC is announcing this recall as part of its mission to protect the public from unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with consumer products. The Commission's objective is to reduce the estimated 28.6 million injuries and 21,700 deaths associated each year with the 15,000 different products under CPSC's jurisdiction.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
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Live Messenger, showing as offline but set to online + other issues
A few issues going on here, and it these originated on the MS clients for Messenger first of all before appearing to effect trillian as well (using 5.1).
Issue started off in messenger 2009 where message not received errors would occur between myself and other users and vice versa, which then led onto me showing as offline to other people, even when I was set to online (so they got a surprise I messaged them when it did get through). So I removed that and tried this on the 2011 client, same issues appeared there. I tried following some forum fix of removing contacts folders and so forth that related to 2009 version, which didnt resolve the issue, and then attempting setting my privicy from medium to low and back to medium again, which seemed to resolve for a short time. The problem returns again so I move over to Trillian which settles the problem within 1 day and had been great for over 3 weeks now, until this week where the same issues have appeared. Double checked in the other client and it is doing the same. I've even tried an old laptop that never suffered any problems and tied it to my mobile internet to rule out any router issues, and it suffered the problem also. I really am at a wits end over this one, just have no idea what to do anymore. Suggestions, theories, anything would be welcome. Oh, in case it helps, am running Win7 home Premium on the desktop and Win XP Home on the netbook (which showed the same issues with messenger 2009) |
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This could be caused by a virus/malware so let's try a full scan with Malwarebytes
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Had a go with Malwarebytes a couple of nights ago, came up with nothing found infecting the system.
Incidently while in work tonight I decided to let the mobile connect via its client (using uk tmobile 3g) and it was having the exact same issues. So I am starting to think the issue is at Messengers server end, now are they contactable I wonder? I am going to try and see if they are. |
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I want to put recessed lighting in my living room which has 2x6 rafters, so I need shallow remodel cans. Halo does not make a 5" shallow can so I'm looking at Juno, Elco and Elite. Juno's are quite a bit more. Elco and Elite are about $15 per can and their gimbal trims are reasonable as well at around $15. Does anyone have experience with these brands. They are all internet order so I wouldn't be able to see them beforehand. I can't find any local lighting stores that stock them. The Junos are about double the price. I might be willing to pay more if I knew I'd be getting much better quality, but just looking at spec sheets they all look the same. Thanks |
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The cans are very similar. I would look at the entire package - can + trim + bulb. How about the possibility of using the ECO4-575 (Cree CR4) light in a 4" housing instead of a standard 5" recessed can light? The CR4 performs very nicely and the hole is 1" smaller in diameter. |
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This past year has been tough for many people, and we're eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town's cultural tastemakers -- entrepreneurs and entertainers we're lucky to have in Denver -- to answer a trio of questions. We excerpted quotes from these Q&A's in the New Year's Guide inserted in the December 13 issue of Westword, but we'll be featuring the complete interviews in a series of posts through the end of the year. Up next: Matthew Brown.Josiah M Hesse Matthew Brown, owner of Fancy Tiger Clothing.
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In fifth grade? That was pretty brave of you. What was the reaction?
Well, I didn't grow up in some hip neighborhood in New York, it was a really conservative community in Texas. In middle school I started getting detentions for coloring my hair purple; the principal said it was a distraction. Then my parents stepped up and threatened to sue them. My parents were always supportive in whatever I wanted to do creatively.
So at that time did you think you wanted to own a clothing store when you grew up?
Not at all. I look back and wonder why I didn't consider a career in fashion, but it wasn't until I was around 32 that I first thought of opening a retail store. I got a liberal arts degree, worked in a few restaurants, and then opened up a coffee house in Galveston Island with Jamie, my wife -- who now owns Fancy Tiger Crafts. We did that for five years, then came to Denver in 2005 with the intention of opening up another coffee house. But then I had an epiphany that I needed to go into retail clothing. I originally wanted it to be a men's clothing store, but that seemed too risky.
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Though Fancy Tiger appeals to the fashion-forward male demographic -- seems like a risky business move.
I'm very thankful that I've had a lot of opportunity in my life, that I can go with the flow. My parents always told me they'd support me in whatever I did, so I studied comparative religion, which doesn't have the widest career opportunity. Now that I'm older and am doing everything on my own, I'm more independent than I've ever been, which changes your mindset. I think someone who put themselves through college would think more pragmatically, but since I had support from my parents I had more of a see-what-happens attitude. But I had twelve or thirteen years experience in restaurants, which really lent itself to what I do now. If I'd studied business in school, I would've gotten burnt out on it and probably wouldn't be where I am today.
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We use unscented, clumping litter with pan liners and remove the clumps and stool twice a day, with a complete change every few days. Our three cats have no problems with this so far. Litter made from ground corncobs might also be good for your cat. We used that for the rabbit we used to have, and liked it. |
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The last week or so it seems whenever I go out to do some of the monumental cleanup needed in the borders I instead find myself wandering about, looking for, and then taking pictures of things that catch my fancy. The time is spent with some happiness for the successes of the season and a bit of melancholy for the changes in the gardens that herald the growing season coming to an end for another year. I thought you'd enjoy some of the end of August "pretties".
One of the hay racks. I thought that caladium was gone after the June/July rains but it surprised me by reappearing and making up for lost time.
One of the caladiums I picked up at Loew's on a shopping trip with Sue and Monique.
The large hanging basket has finally filled in.
The fabulous 'Nora Leigh'
Dahlia 'Le Baron' with a Common Branded Skipper Butterfly
I bought this passion flower vine on sale in mid July ad it has been a blooming fool. I have no idea what its name is but I'm hoping I can save it as it's a real winner.
Coleus 'Malabar' standard
Yes I do LOVE pink!
The breezeway steps containers. That one yellow set of leaves sticking up is on a Acalypha that is supposed to be purple and pink. Go figure?
This is one of the containers that was blown down last week and is now tied to the garage. LOL The papyrus in there is probably eight feet tall.
Love that Cordyline 'Miss Andrea'
This dwarf Canna 'Pink Sunburst' is really putting on a show.
Another pink container. The fuchsia in this one is taking a break but is setting buds again for a September show.
The purple and chartreuse grouping on the front steps
I'm over the moon with my datura this year. I've never had one attain this size and beauty. It's a show stopper and smells fantastic.
What's not to love about this beauty?
Thanks for taking a walkabout with me. I hope you enjoyed some of our August 'pretties'. Deanne |
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- Posted by michelle_zone4 zone 4 NW IA (My Page) on Tue, Aug 25, 09 at 16:17
Incredible! You certainly have the touch with containers and access to such a fabulous variety of plants. Love the datura, passionflower, all the pinks, heck everything! Michelle |
I never get tired of seeing your plantings, Deanne! The artist in you certainly shines through! Absolutely beautiful! Are you still stopping traffic? I'll bet people tell their friends to drive by your place just to gawk! Saucy |
Love the passion flower vine and Miss Andrea too...along with everything else! Things sure do change in a month's time...but all is still beautiful Deanne! |
- Posted by dodgerdudette NapaCaz9 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 25, 09 at 22:06
Deanne, I had taken a pic of your Papyrus pot at IU from a similar angle, so I put your pic up next to it to compare the growth --fun ! In mine the Hibiscus is up to the panel below the windows of the garage door, and the Papyrus is just up to the top of the door. That Datura is fabulous ! I love the darkish foliage and the bronze stems with the lavender blooms. Everything is just terrific looking ! Thanks for posting- can't wait for the next installment. Kathy in Napa |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6/MA (My Page) on Wed, Aug 26, 09 at 7:07
Everything looks very lush and clean, Deanne. This time of year, that's not easy to do. I really enjoyed your Caladiums this year. I see a flowering maple in the first photo that has such large apricot blooms. I have a Nora Leigh, but it came back with reverted green foliage this year. Odd. Gorgeous Dahlia photo, the Skipper almost looks like he has gold on his wings. I've never seen a Passion Flower like that. The size is smaller and more compact, it has more flowers than I've seen before, the foliage is cute, and I've never seen an apricot one before. You do find unusual plants! Love your standard Coleus. I tried to guess what it was before looking at the description but I had no idea. [g] Did you winter that over once already? It's nice and straight too. I'm wondering what the Coleus is in the second pot that has a Cordyline in? The gold colored one, is such a pop of light. Your mailbox garden is looking super this year. Is that a 'Morning Light' behind the Datura? I don't always like Datura, but pairing it with the Grass and the Dahlias makes me want to try it again next year. Of course, it helps that it is so bushy and full of blooms. [g] |
- Posted by chloehoover z6b VA (My Page) on Wed, Aug 26, 09 at 8:47
Wow, I feel a bit like I just took a morning walk thru your gardens again, Deanne (altho I miss seeing the driveway, LOL)... It is incredible how it all shot up in the burst of heat for August isnt it? In all the lush beauty, I forget how much I love your coleus standards -- they are quietly stunning. And that datura with the dahlia - fabu, fabu, fabu! You give great garden walks, lady... keep 'em coming. You made my day! -cindy |
Beautiful flowers and photography! Those last 2 are my favorites. Stunning! |
I think I've spotted a favorite, until the next picture pops up. It's impossible to pick a fav, you have so many beautiful containers, it just takes my breath away. The passion vine is one to watch, though. It's incredible! I hope you'll find a way to over winter it. How many front doors do you have? I notice two different ones, and they both look like the front. I'm confused. :) |
Thanks so much everyone! I really appreciate your kind comments. PM Yes, I've wintered over that coleus for several years now. This is it's fourth summer. Anita, we have two doors that are on the front of the house. The one one the left we call the breezeway door because it goes into a small entrance room with a coat closet with a sliding glass door in the back that goes to the hot tub deck. You can see both doors in this pic. Deanne |
- Posted by flowerluvr Z5 IN (My Page) on Wed, Aug 26, 09 at 17:28
Always a delight to WALAT in your garden, Deanne. Nora Leigh is beautiful, and I love the datura with the ornamental grass. Is that 'Morning Light'? |
Thanks deanne. You have a picture for everything. LOL. That explains it then, and what a nice layout, esp. the door leading to the hot tub. Seeing the mailbox garden in all its glory is quite a magnificent sight. Your postperson must adore delivering the mail to you. |
- Posted by gardeningmary (My Page) on Sun, Aug 30, 09 at 22:41
Absolutely Fabu-fabu!! Deanne, these are better than any gardening book, all the more special having seen things in person. I love the fact that there always seem to be new combos to look at wonder at. Thank you for such a treat. Mary |
I agree with Mary, Deanne, better than most gardening mags! I can tell that pink and pinkish tones are your favourites! I was blown away at IU VI by your collections and they looke even better now! I am very interested in your coleus standard. I have started a geranium standard this summer and it is doing fine. Just thought I'd see if I could do it. I will also bring it in to try to keep it going for a while. I have had success this year with a bright red Mandevilla and would like to keep it over as well. Any tips?? And how are your orchids doing? I put mine out again this year and again they look awful just now, but hopefully will thrive again in the house, as they did last winter. Isn't gardening fun??!! Cheers, Julie And "hello" to Doug, who will soon be busy toting these fabu planters into the house *LOL* |
- Posted by drema_dianne z6OH (My Page) on Mon, Aug 31, 09 at 17:19
Deanne, I just love your photos. Unbelievably gorgeous... Drema |
Thanks again everyone! so happy you enjoy the pics of the pretties, Julie, No clue as to how to over winter a mandevilla. I've not done those before. Orchids are all still happy and a few are getting new spikes. and yes, gardening is the most fun! Deanne |
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