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Antonita Slaughter, Bria Smith help push Louisville women past California
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One week after hitting 16 three-pointers in their upset victory over top overall seed Baylor, the Louisville Cardinals struggled from deep. As a team Jeff Walz' Cardinals shot 8-of-21 from distance, with leading scorer Shoni Schimmel making just one of her eight attempts.
But one day after Luke Hancock (20 points) got the job done for the men's team it was Antonita Slaughter who picked up the slack for the women.
Slaughter made six three-pointers and Louisville scored the final seven points of the game to beat California 64-57 in New Orleans. Louisville, which is the first five-seed to win a Final Four game, returns to the national title game for the first time since 2009 and will play either Notre Dame or UConn Tuesday night.
Slaughter, who made seven three-pointers against Baylor, finished with a game-high 18 points and Bria Smith added 17 to go along with six rebounds. Their play kept the Cardinals within striking distance of the Golden Bears, who controlled the flow of the game for much of the first half.
Layshia Clarendon (17 points) defended Schimmel well but as the tempo tilted in favor of the Cardinals in the second half the Golden Bears turned the ball over far too often. Cal, making its first-ever Final Four appearance, finished the game with 19 turnovers to just eight assists.
Louisville converted those turnovers into 22 points, and their decided advantage at the foul line (14-of-19; Cal finished 1-of-7) gave the Cardinals the boost they needed in crunch time.
It goes without saying that the last six months have been great for the athletic department led by AD Tom Jurich. The ACC invitation, the football team's Sugar Bowl victory and success on the basketball court (oh, the baseball and softball programs are both ranked in the top 11 of the national polls, respectively).
One more victory for both basketball programs and Louisville will become the first school since 2004 (UConn) to hold the national titles in men's and women's basketball at the same time.
Raphielle also writes for the NBE Basketball Report and can be followed on Twitter at @raphiellej.
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This is supposedly "traditional cave houses" and yes they might be nice, but the rooms do have not such a great view... (ours didn't have any windows) the only great views you get are from the shared terasse.
Breakfast is OK, worth an average mark. Served quite romantically on the open terasse.
Staff was very friendly. We were on Santorini during an all-island power outage, and they were very caring and helpful.
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WASHINGTON - The No. 9/15 Georgetown University men's soccer team will open BIG EAST Conference play on Saturday afternoon as the squad hosts the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights at 1 p.m., at North Kehoe Field. The Hoyas are currently 7-0-1 overall marking their best start in program history as well as tying the highest ranking at No. 9.
The Hoyas are coming off of a 2-0 weekend defeating Princeton University, 1-0, and the University of Pennsylvania, 3-1, to take both games in the BIG EAST/Ivy League Classic.
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Georgetown Posts Seventh Shutout of the Season in a 2-0 Victory Over Rutgers
The Georgetown University men's soccer team made it three in a row on Sunday defeating the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights, 2-0, at North Kehoe Field. For the second-consecutive game, the Blue & Gray scored the game-winner early on as the Hoyas posted their seventh shutout of the season and snapped RU's three-game win streak. With the victory, Georgetown improves to 6-2-1 overall and 3-1 in BIG EAST play.
Riemer scored his first-career hat trick on Sunday in Georgetown's win over Penn in the second game of the BIG EAST/Ivy League Classic. He managed three goals in three shots which included the game winner. Seiler was also named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll after helping the Blue & Gray to a 2-0 week allowing just one goal in two games.
Leading the way for Georgetown is freshman Brandon Allen (Old Bridge, N.J./St. Joseph's) who has 11 points with five goals including four game winners as well as one assist. Riemer has 10 points on five goals, while junior Steve Neumann (New Hope, Pa./Council Rock North) has six points with a goal and a team and conference-high four assists.
In the net, sophomore Tomas Gomez (Webster Groves, Mo./Webster Groves) has played in seven games with 23 saves and two shutouts to his credit.
Rutgers is sitting at 3-2 on the season after winning its last two matches. The Scarlet Knights downed the Princeton University Tigers, 2-0, two weeks ago led by a pair of goals from freshman Mael Corboz. Last weekend, RU defeated the College of Charleston by a score of 1-0. Junior Kene Eze scored for the Scarlet Knights for his first goal of the year.
Rutgers is led by Corboz, the younger brother of Georgetown women's soccer sophomore Daphne Corboz, with two goals and one assist on the season for five points. Eze and freshman Mitchell Taintor are tied for second with one goal each. Senior Kevin McMullen has appeared in all five games in the net with 19 saves to his credit.
Georgetown is 9-6-2 all-time against the Scarlet Knights as Saturday's game will be BIG EAST cross-divisional play. The last meeting was in 2008 in New Jersey where the Hoyas won, 2-1, in overtime. The last meeting at North Kehoe Field was in 2007 where the Blue & Gray lost by a score of 1-0.
Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. at North Kehoe Field. Live stats and a webcast featuring Dan Helfrich will be available at www.GUHoyas.com.
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In case anyone's keeping track, that makes two—count 'em, two—poetry reviews in the past month. All credit to Erica for both pushing for more poetry coverage (confession: the only poetry books I read are the ones that win the BTBA), and for writing these reviews. And I know there are many more poetry pieces to come . . .
Speaking of Erica, in addition to being a poet and translator, she's also behind the Alluringly Short blog and is the co-host of the Reading the World podcast. (Which you all should a) listen to, b) subscribe to on iTunes, and c) give a five-star rating to.)
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It's incredibly difficult to imagine that there is anything new to say about Pablo Neruda. But Neruda, probably the most prolific poet of the twentieth century, provides endless opportunities for his readers, scholars and critics to re-evaluate his oeuvre. World's End (Copper Canyon, 2009) is a treasure-trove of intimate insight, available in its entirety in English for the first time in William O'Daly's careful and precise translation. In this expansive book-length poem Neruda oscillates between moments of vulnerable reflection on his own life and work (including his controversial early support of Stalin for which he denounces his naivety), bitter condemnation of the violence of the twentieth century, and a prophetic poetic voice.
World's End, written towards the end of the poet's life in 1968-69, is in many ways a response to the sometimes naive exuberance of his only other book-length poem Canto General, which was written over a much longer period of time from 1938-49. World's End follows in the epic footsteps of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, but instead of the celebratory and ultimately hopeful sense of Canto General, in this work Neruda bitterly confronts the century of violence he has participated in as witness and activist.
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One of the most hotly contested death row cases in recent years looks set to go ahead with the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia on Wednesday.
Davis lost his final bid for clemency despite overwhelming evidence indicating that his conviction for murder is unreliable.
He will be put on a gurney at the state prison in Jackson and administered a cocktail of lethal drugs at 7pm local time on Wednesday, barring a last-minute intervention by the US supreme court which few observers expect to take place.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which alone has power within the state to commute Davis's death sentence, denied to grant him clemency having heard three hours of testimony on Monday casting deep doubts on his conviction.
Davis, 42, was put on death row 20 years ago for the 1989 murder of a police officer, Mark MacPhail, in Savannah following a fight with a homeless man over a bottle of beer. Since then seven out of the nine key witnesses who implicated him have recanted their evidence, several saying they were cajoled by police into giving false eye-witness statements.
Another 10 have come forward to point the finger at a separate man present at the scene of the murder, Sylvester Coles.
Meanwhile, no forensic or DNA evidence linking Davis to the shooting has ever been found, and nor has the murder weapon.
The denial of clemency by the parole board prompted an outpouring of anger and despair from hundreds of Twitter users and several celebrity supporters of Davis's campaign. The prisoner's lawyer, Brian Kammer, said he was "shocked and disappointed at the failure of our justice system at all levels to correct a miscarriage of justice".
Amnesty International's US branch, that has championed the case, said: "Allowing a man to be sent to death under an enormous cloud of doubt about his guilt is an outrageous affront to justice. The case against Davis unraveled long ago."
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Bianca Jagger, who acts as the Council of Europe's ambassador on the death penalty, said: "to execute Troy Davis in these circumstances would be a travesty. Executing an innocent man is a state-sanctioned murder."
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Wicomico County (Salisbury)
Salisbury has in recent years become a far more favorable jurisdiction for Maryland accident lawyers handling personal injury cases in Salisbury. This is arguably due in part to the area becoming more affluent and cosmopolitan in recent years. Salisbury was recently ranked the 55th "Hottest Small City" by Inc. Magazine in their annual report of the nation's "Best Cities for Doing Business." No doubt, Salisbury is clearly a town on the rise.What to Know about Personal Injury Cases in Salisbury
There are a few points of interest about handling personal injury cases in Wicomico County Circuit Court. After receiving your Scheduling Order which will contain all of the discovery deadlines and pretrial conference dates, the experienced personal inury attorney will carefully avoid a trial scheduled in the months of January, February, and early March when the chance of snow is the greatest.
Unlike large metropolitan cities which are accustomed to significant snowfall and equipped to deal with its removal in a quick and efficient manner, the Eastern Shore of Maryland is not. Although significant snowfall is rare in Salisbury, if snow does fall and the public schools are closed you will be hard pressed to find a jury panel for your trial.
This will present a hardship on the plaintiff's attorney who has already paid significant sums of money for the expert witnesses to travel to the Eastern Shore to testify. If at all possible, if you have a case in Salisbury should file a motion to have the trial date moved to a warmer month as soon as a copy of the Scheduling Order is received.
Unlike most scheduling orders, Wicomico County scheduling orders will also contain the deadline for all videotaped depositions. Counsel should not assume that entering into an agreement with opposing counsel to take video depositions outside the deadline will suffice with the Court. Regardless of such an agreement, the Court may refuse to entertain a Motion in Limine to address objections the attorney raised during the deposition. If you file a Motion to extend the deadlines, also include a Motion to extend the deadline to file Motions in Limine to address objections raised during the deposition.
One bonus of practicing in Salisbury is that the well prepared attorney can call the jury commissioner on the eve of trial and obtain the list of prospective jurors who are scheduled to appear the following day. A "sneak preview" of prospective jurors can often provide an edge to the trial attorney and a more effective use of your premptory strikes.
One additional side note about trying a personal injury case in a smaller town like Salisbury. When preparing your voir dire always ask the following question: "Does any member of the jury panel know any other member of the jury panel." Invariably, you will have two members on the jury panel who know each other. (Hopefully, you can avoid having ex-spouses sitting on the same jury by asking this question. This happened to us in Wicomico once!)
If you have been injured in a car accident, a truck accident, or by medical malpractice in or around the Salisbury/Eastern Shore/Ocean City area, or if you are a Maryland attorney and would like us to handle your case on the Eastern Shore, call our Salisbury lawyers at 800-553-8082 or select here for a free consultation.
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Below are sample verdicts and settlements in accident and malpractice cases in Salisbury. First, there is not a large sampling to chose from because few personal injury cases find their way to trial in Wicomico County. Second, we believe the results are illustrative of the value of similar cases. But verdicts in other cases have to be taken with many grains of salt. It is impossible to completely compare two cases under any circumstances, much less in settlement and verdict summaries.


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A very pregnant Tori Spelling was hard at work filming scenes with Dean for their reality show at the bike shop yesterday, but the big news is that she just signed on to reprise her role as Donna Martin for the Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff. She'll join Jennie Garth as one of the show's special guest stars in addition to the new cast of characters. The show is getting a lot of buzz, so tell us — which old-school character would you like to see join the show?
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megnmac 6 years
David.They have to still be married. Or she's a widow. Those are the options. The whole show led up to them together and ended with them married. Yes, I'm the nerd that is ALWAYS annoyed when tv shows need some drama and break up the main couple. Hated the Ross/Rachel breakups, and lost interest b/c they just got annoying. Hate the idea that the Office will break Jim/Pam up and find drama there. Hate it all. There is drama elsewhere, I hate when a couple is set up for being perfect and then broken up...
megnmac 6 years
David. They have to still be married. Or she's a widow. Those are the options. The whole show led up to them together and ended with them married. Yes, I'm the nerd that is ALWAYS annoyed when tv shows need some drama and break up the main couple. Hated the Ross/Rachel breakups, and lost interest b/c they just got annoying. Hate the idea that the Office will break Jim/Pam up and find drama there. Hate it all. There is drama elsewhere, I hate when a couple is set up for being perfect and then broken up...
sugarbugsie 6 years
i am so excited about this! i haven't really watched a non reality show since friends! :) sad i know.......i thought this was going to be a movie, but it's going to be a "series"?
estella241 6 years
Tiffani Thiessen!
estella241 6 years
Tiffani Thiessen!
celeb_obsessed25 6 years
BRENDA WALSH! She is the only reason I buy the dvds. After season 4, I'm not buying it anymore!
treb 6 years
I vote for Abusive Ray. He can sing abotu talking to an angel.
Irishgal 6 years
I loved 90210. I watched it for the whole 10 seasons. Started when I was 12, ended when I was 22!!!!!!! Wow, I feel old now. I would love to see Brenda back, people were too hard on Shannen after she was fired! And I would love to see Luke Perry back.
darlene 6 years
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Dana18 6 years
I love Beverly 90210. But I don't want to see anyone of them their. And I love Shannon. But all of them have been through as many stroryline that there can be. Please lets bring in new blood for this new series.
Sporky 6 years
Greggie, re: Dean's wife and the adopted baby, I was wondering if he had relinquished rights on her or what. Good to know he did. What a tool. The t.v. ads for their new show make me :sick:
jfellows1631 6 years
i LOVED B.A.G. on that short-lived show staring Freddie Prinz Jr. he was really funny!
Bksuga 6 years
I never watched this show but i am looking forward to seeing the spinoff
kendalheart 6 years
Need them all BUT I need some Kelly Talor!!
Babychloe 6 years
Everyone except Andrea. She was too boring.
pinkprincess1101 6 years
i really didnt care for andrea
tiff58 6 years
I picked Luke, but I want them all back!
LaurenG22 6 years
I want brandon and dylan and david back. I could care less about Brenda or Valerie or Andrea.
Emma-Jade 6 years
SHANNEN because Brenda was my favorite character, but we need David too because Donna must be with him still^^
pinkprincess1101 6 years
i doubt brian austin greene (david) :drool:, will come back he is getting a bigger role with more showing time on the terminator show, maybe he will guest star here and there
bratty3000 6 years
well donna and david got married so hopefully they are still together. plus david is still really hot. didn't the series end with kelly and dylan together? i would love to see their wedding. brenda hasn't been around since the beginning of their college years the show is soooo over her and you can't bring brenda back unless she is the star of the show. she requires much too much attention.
ShePirate2010 6 years
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MissLuluP 6 years
Was a hard decision, but i picked Shannon. But i although like to see Luke and Brian back. Because for a real fan of the old show it would be sad to hear, that David and Donna got a divorce. On the other hand the love-triangle brenda/kelly/dylan would be very hot and interesting to watch!!!! Got for it, let us have a real reunion! Get the old Cast back!!!!
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I have a double rose of sharon that gets loaded with buds every year but very few of them ever open. It is planted on the south side of the house but is in shade about half of the day. It gets plenty of water but I have only used Miricle grow fertilizer on it and that seldom. It also had been pruned practically down to the roots but is now at leat 3 feet tall and very bushy.


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Chattanooga, December, 2014.
Chattanooga, December, 2014.
Aesculus parviflora, the imposing bottlebrush buckeye at the bottom of the hill, has been magnificent this year. Every summer, this plant outdoes itself, making a strong statement in the garden and attracting all kinds of insects that feed on the flowers' nectar. Dense branches provide a place for birds to find shelter and rest. Squirrels love to hide the buckeyes and knock the extras to the ground, which makes the chipmunks happy. If the humans are vigilant, they get a few of the inedible nuts, as well. Hard to believe, but this sprawling, flowering beauty is not a mass planting. It started here as a lone, somewhat scraggly, 4′ specimen. Over the past 7-8 years, it has spread by low, lateral branches that have rooted deeply into the fertile woodland soil. When the buckeye was in full bloom a few weeks ago, I put a chair beside it to show size perspective for a photo.
The next morning, I looked out from the deck and the chair was missing. I thought maybe my husband had moved it to mow the small patch of adjacent lawn, but no, it turned up under the full moon maple, on its side, right in the middle of a bed of hardy begonia. Though lots of different critters move through our property — many of them in the evening hours — it would have taken a pretty large animal to move a metal chair that far. Since neighborhood deer bed down under the row of hemlocks behind the buckeye, I'm thinking they were probably responsible. Don't know, but it must have been a wild night in the garden!
A sweet family. A dog. Colorful Plants. Homegrown (and homemade) food. A beautiful day. What more could you want?
On a garden bloggers tour of Asheville a few years ago, I spent a sensory-rich morning at the home of two artists, Damaris Pierce and Ricki Pierce. Somehow, I never got around to writing much about this intriguing place, named Wampoldtopia after the street that runs by the property. Then, this week-end, I read a recent article about Damaris and Ricki's plans to give up the house and its lovingly-crafted gardens. I figured it was time to look back at my photos and re-visit Wampoldtopia. When Ricki came to build a pond at the house in 2002 or so, Damaris lived there alone. It wasn't long before Ricki moved in. The couple married and undertook one outdoor project after another, turning their hillside site into a fantasy of whimsical art, stonework, gardens, and pathways. One look at the hillside and you can see why neighbors and passers-by have been curious about the fairyland web of artwork and plants. For the past few years, the couple has opened the gardens for special tours and visits by community groups. Still, they've tried to retain some privacy — not always easy with such enticing visions within the boundaries of fences and walls. Damaris's art and Rick's stonework blend seamlessly throughout the outdoor space. With every step, there's a treasure to see — each tangible evidence of a whole lot of talent and just plain hard work. For years, Rick brought home some of his leftovers from stonework commissions. Always another project…. Most of the bricks in this pathway were salvaged from road demolition projects, then placed, one by one, to create textural interest and access alongside the house. Some people have an angel sculpture and some people have one enfolded by a lovely stone surround. There was a bench near this straight little shallow stream, or rill, as the English might say. Despite quite a few gardeners milling about the hillside, you could still hear the soft trickling of water and the chatter of birds looking down at all the crazy humans ooh-ing and ah-ing over every little botanical/creative treasure! Would you think this is a fairy house or a full-size shed? Actually, it's about the size of a dog house. Very charming and unexpected as you walk along one of the paths criss-crossing the hillside. The owners found this innovative way to disguise a chain link fence on the back of their property. The arches are made of cement and stucco, I believe, and the petals of mesh with some type of material on the surface. To me, it's always sad to leave a garden, especially one that represents as much planning, labor, creativity and love as this one. Will the new owners take care of the garden? Will they keep things the way they are, maybe overlaying their own touches onto the space, or will they change much of it? Either way, I wish Demarius and Ricki the best as they explore new and separate paths. I also thank them for that fine spring morning I spent at Wampoldtopia.
This meadow at the Carolina home place is chaotic, yet beautiful in its own way. Last week, the dewy blossoms of sweet peas and Queen Anne's lace engaged me and several groups of early morning walkers.
Unlike other fields on the property, this one gets mowed sporadically. Weedy thugs have taken over. I see an occasional butterfly weed or milkweed (unfortunate terminology since these are desirable natives and wonderful for pollinators). They struggle for a toehold and find it hard to compete with the more aggressive plants. My hope is that, someday, the field can be mowed regularly to keep weeds from going to seed. Then we can look at encouraging a transition to more native plants.
It's hard to argue against sweet peas, though. They have such appealing blooms — and a nice name to boot!
When your house sits under a canopy of decades-old, 50′-100′ shade trees, you appreciate the benefits. You feel the drop in temperature when you leave the asphalt road and turn into the driveway. You note the ongoing parade of birds, squirrels, and insects scurrying up and down the furrowed trunks. It's nature up close and always entertaining.
But there are downsides. It's dark in the house. It's hard to keep leaves and debris off the roof. The squirrels leap from tree to tree, then chew on cedar eaves when they get bored with running.
And then there's Storm Center, dispensing its warnings with increasing frequency and intensity. Approaching winds! Heavy rain! Take cover! Worry, worry.
Just this week, Storm Center scrolled its warnings across the television screen. I was busy sorting books — keep and give away –and didn't notice. Besides, there was no wind, and the rain was steady and soft.
Then, things started to change. The trunk of the tulip magnolia/poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), growing six feet from the window, began moving from side to side. It gathered momentum, swaying in a widening circle. Alarmingly, the angle of the trunk changed from 90 degrees to nearly 70 degrees, leaning toward the house. I froze, expecting the worst. Then, as fast as the wind started, it stopped, and the tree righted itself.
The next day, news stations reported our area had seen the worst instance of circling heavy winds, damage, and uprooted tree in forty years. If our tree (one of a dozen close by) had gone down in this storm, so would've half our house.
In the '70s, the homebuilders decided to keep most of the trees here, rather than cut them down to make their job easier. For that I'm grateful. But since the trees had previously grown in dense woods, reaching for the sun, most of them now have no branches on the lower 50 or so feet. The weight is all concentrated at the top of the trunk– okay for the forest, but not for inhabitants of the house.
Storm Center says there will be another Event today. I'm hoping for the best, staying away from the window until the tree specialist gets here to allay (or confirm) my fears.
The backyard is lush and cool now in advance of the wilting heat that's sure to come. Everything looks fresh: colors, the changing patterns of light, the tender seedlings that push up through the soil every hour (or so it seems).
I wish I could send along the delicate fragrance from hundreds of pinkish-lavender azalea blooms at their peak now. You would swoon if you smelled them. The azaleas were maybe half this size when we moved here. Over the years, they've merged into one glorius swath that is actually more pastel than this straight-out-of-the-camera color indicates.
The big white patch in the lawn is Mazus reptans 'Alba', which takes more sun than purple mazus. This semi-evergreen perennial spreads rapidly in moist soil and can sometimes be a nuisance, but I like the way it contrasts with the bright green grass in spring. Maybe an entire lawn of mazus? Would that be so bad?
Rabbits seem confused by the mazus blooms. Every morning, at least one eastern cottontail comes and stands in the patch, smells a white flower, then pauses and looks puzzled — at least that's the way it looks to me. After that, it smells more white flowers, then noses around to find some grass or something else to nibble on before hopping off. I wonder if it thinks it sees clover, then discovers it's really mazus. It certainly looks like clover from a distance.
I saw a little pile of white downy fur in the grass last week. I wondered if it was the remnants of a rabbit that had let its guard down, trying to figure out why the clover wasn't really clover at all.
When my son Greg met his soon-to-be wife, he was obviously smitten. I knew this for several reasons, but it was the energy he put into a gift for her upcoming birthday that confirmed it for me. He considered several options, then settled on a plan: he would assemble a menagerie of houseplants for her sunroom/office and keep everything secret until the Big Day arrived.
After many trips to buy greenery and other supplies, Greg spent hours mixing soil, matching plant to container, and potting each specimen up. He added some divisions from his collection and mine. To make sure the plants were kept secret and, also, watered and cared for in the interim, he brought them to my house for safe-keeping. You can see them above, in all their diversity of texture, pattern, color, and form, spread out in the driveway on delivery day.
I know I'm partial as a judge, but I think this is one of the sweetest, most from-the-heart gifts I've ever seen. Maybe it's the thoughtfulness — not the gift — that made an impression. Either way, it's not a bad way to impress a woman.
None of my lenten roses are special cultivars. They're just seedlings of half a dozen plants I bought years ago. Over time, they've cross-pollinated and spread all over the garden. They've loved the rich soil here and have become so plentiful they're verging on being intrusive and unwelcome. Last fall, I decided to select the white ones and those that were extraordinary or bright-hued, then give the rest away.
After the rough winter we've had, with camellia buds and other flowers stunted, I'm wavering on my plan. Hellebores are one of the few things in bloom now. From a distance, they play a subdued, but welcome, role in the landscape.
Up close, the flowers of lenten rose are anything but low-key. Variations in color and reproductive parts make me marvel at nature's complexity. Still…. I need to make room for other things. Maybe things that won't deposit hundreds of seedlings on the paths leading through the woods.
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Election promises on boats will not pass parliament
In the lead up to the election, we saw both major parties making policy pledges to stop asylum boats. Kate Guathier looks at the numbers in a hung parliament and considers whether either major party… more


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