I'm been a member at Garden web for decades but don't check into the Art forum that often. It's usually so slow! I would love to see more movement here! The link goes to a landscape for me too, not sunflowers, but it's a beautiful landscape painting!

Nice dry gov't document, LOL. Campfire doesn't appeal to me from that photo, but I have seen Bill Reid in photos before and it's definitely something I would buy! I actually thought it was going to be released for this year.

I am seeing the old layout now. Very glad! I really didn't like the new layout because: (a) a bunch of different forums were all on the same page - Kitchens, Appliances, Design Dilemmas, and a few others. Too hard and too lengthy to find the threads I was interested in; (b) every time I opened a thread, a new tab opened, which meant a cluttered screen for me; I'd much rather just hit the back arrow from a thread to return to the forum; and (c) the dumb and huge banner across the top that said "Hi Friedajune, what are you working on?" So annoying.

Daisy, the view from your front door is glorious! Is that a winter photo? If so, wow, what a great growing climate. Here is one from my front porch, standing right outside the front door in late November: The rose is 'Barcelona/Francis Dubreuil', flowering because I was bringing the pot inside each night. The pale structure is a cemented-in-place birdbath with a styrofoam faux granite planter on top. The white patches are where birds have pecked away the paint. The dark upright shrub in the border on the right is the gallica 'Alain Blanchard', and the shrub at the far left is High Country Garden's version of 'Banshee' damask. My lawn is drought-tolerant, winter-dormant Bermuda grass with patches of a green fescue grass (also drought-tolerant) I'm having trouble removing. In November, my across the road neighbor's Siberian elm still had green leaves. You can also see some of the cholla cacti lining his fence. The tall wooden stick to the right of 'Barcelona' is supporting plastic fencing that keeps the elk from jumping into the yard. Around here you need to fence out elk, javelina and other wildlife to keep tasty ornamentals uneaten.