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Hi,

I live in a suburb between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Summers are normally very nice here, and winters are generally snowy, but it is not the tundra. I really am in zone 6.
I wish I had known when we bought our house that I would become so obsessed with gardening. I would have bought more land. I am an organic gardener. I love growing roses, but I grow so many other shrubs, bulbs, perennials,tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables too.

I am one of the hosts of the Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest Party. If you would like info on attending, please email me.

I am a Buffalo Botanical Garden member and a member of the Genesee Valley Rock Garden Society. I am also a volunteer for the Delaware Park Rose Garden. I have started a garden blog(see link at bottom of page,) where I plan to show pics through out the garden season. Some other things I like to do are play pool, cook, write poetry but not the silly love kind (scroll to the bottom to see a few examples if interested,) and bird watch.
On the computer, I am often worried about being misunderstood. In real life, I can be very talkative. When I do talk I am very expressive and use my hands a lot just like a short Italian woman should : )
I just cut this quote out of the paper and put it on my fridge,"A garden is a lifetime. The only way I will ever be finished is when Im dead." That was Oscar de la Renta. You never know who is a gardener!
There was a request on the Antique Rose Forum to list the roses we grow on our profiles, so I decided to do that.

Alba:
Mme. Legras de St. Germain

Bourbons:
Mme Ernst Calvat

Souvenir de la Malmaison

Bucks:
Aunt Honey
Folk Singer
Prairie Harvest

Quietness
Prairie Sunrise
Prairie Breeze
Hawkeye Belle

Centifolia:
Fantin Latour

China/Bourbon:
Eugene de Beauharnais

English:
Bow Bells

English Garden
St. Cecilia

Damask:

Gallica:
Belle de Crecy

Belle Isis
Ipsilante

Climber:
Long John Silver

Hybrid Perpetual:
Marchessa Boccella
Reine des Viollettes

Hybrid Tea:
Blue Girl
Dame de Coeur
Just Joey

Mini:
Cinderella
Dresden Doll
Peaches n Cream
plus a few unknown

Polyantha:
Clotilde Soupert
Marie Pavie
The Fairy

Rambler:
Leontine Gervais

Rugosa:
Hansa

Shrub:
Gruss an Aachen
Darlows Enigma
Harrison's Yellow
Vineyard Song

Species:
Rubrifolia(Glauca)

Plus I have a few shrubs and climbers that I do not know the identity.

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Farewell

Out into the solemnly beautiful day
Elvis music dissipates in the air.
A red circle forms.
Hands clasped.
A butterfly floats within
Seaching to rest,
Lands on his hearts hip.

Thirty-Two red balloons
Released.
All eyes watch
The silent rising, swirling away
Becoming smaller
Finally
Engulfed by the vast blue.

A mother softly, sweetly
Whispers to the sky,
Goodbye.

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Falling

Slipping on snow
Just frozen over,
I landed on a dry patch
of sidewalk.

Sitting there, I wondered
If I would of been better off
Tripping on the cement
And falling on ice.

As I rose,
I figured it
Really didnt matter.
My ass would of
Hurt either way.

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Boilermaker

The old man
Smiles
At the young
Big breasted barmaid
You have beautiful...
Eyes.

She smiles back
Repulsion and pity,
A shot
Of whiskey
Washed down
With beer.

My zone is: 6WNY

My Birthday is April 06 .

My favorite forum 1 is Antique Roses.

My favorite forum 2 is Growing Tomatoes.

First registered on March 16,2001.