Florence - Yes, we are having a lot of fun with the new camera. It's one of those combination camcorders/cameras and my daughter has been make all kinds of "documentaries" and even a garden tour. Garden 2 Garden - I'm liking the color more and more myself. I remember last year I was a little worried the color would be too strong or too dark, but it seems to fit in very nicely with the other roses in my garden. Organic Garden - I'm sure your Pretty Jessica will start doing something soon. You'll love it once it starts performing. Mine are grafted, and although I'm usually very hesitant to buy a grafted rose in my climate it could possibly explain the difference. Labrea - I love the alyssum too. It's so easy and common, but you just can't beat it as a companion for roses (in my opinion). It blooms non stop from spring to hard freeze and always looks good. Krista - I agree, Austin has some wonderful pink roses. I purchased Eglantyne last year on your recommendation and I really love it too. It was just a tiny band last year, and it's in a bad spot completely shaded and crowded out by an encroaching "The Fairy" but it has given me several exquisite blooms this summer. Randy - I agree, the perfectly shaped blooms can't be beat. It's so old fashioned looking to me, yet blooms non stop. Okay, I'm starting to sound like a commercial for David Austin roses so I'll stop now. I usually do not cut my flowers for bouquets, but since there were so many I went ahead and cut five for the house. My daughter took this picture with her camera:

Thanks for the comments, everyone. Regarding the snail, part of gardening for me is enjoying nature. I'd be fine with some slugs, but I'm not fine with ten thousand slugs, which is why I hunt and kill them. Last night I killed some real huge ones. This spring has been very long and wet in my area, and the slugs are loving it. BTW, I did take several pictures of the snail on non-hosta plants. I'll add a couple of the more interesting ones to the end of this thread when I get home from work. Regarding my white hosta section, I find that the whites clash with creams and yellows, so I keep them seperate. The "white garden", as I call it, is still a work in progress. I think I have exceeded my hosta budget for the year, but I do want to get some more green/white hosta for this area. I'll post a pic of the entire area later on. The sapling anchoring this section is an Eastern Redbud, which I planted last year and love. There are enormous maples about 20 feet away, which drop thousands of seeds all over my yard. Every seed is fertile. Every seed hatches into vile maple spawn. Regarding my "Night Before Christmas", I hadn't even considered that it was mislabeled. I bought it from a nursery and it had the grower's Night Before Christmas label on it. I doubt that it's LS Dividing Line, because the white on these leaves emergepure white, not the yellow-fading-into-white of LS Dividing Line. But it does look like Risky Business. It's still just one eye, and I'm sure it was a tissue culture. I'll make note of this plant and check it out more closely next year, when it's more mature.

Judy Jay Rhiannon is the name of a Celtic spirit and we got it from the Fleetwood mac song Rhiannon. It is pronounced Ree-an-non. DH and I were teachers at the time and that was one of the few names we could come up with that didn't bring up memories of other kids. Nicole, Peyton might look older but she is such a munchkin, she only weighs 25 pounds at 2 and a half. She is just a minature little munchkin. I think that it is her big brown eyes that make her look so mature:) Stacie

Pretty sure I don't have voice recording. My one camera, is a Canon A650IS which is a couple of years old. Its been described in reviews as a Canon G7 minus frills. I like the 12 megapixels in it, and size. 6 x zoom. Lately, I use a Canon SX10 IS, with 20 x zoom. Also no voice recording. Would be a nifty feature though. The most important part for me seems to know when I left one grove and am in another. What I do sometimes, is take an image of my palm in-between to indicate the transition, or a note on a note card. But I can see where the voice option would be very streamlined. Seems like most manufacturers have really worked the bugs out of most cameras these days.