Shawn - I measured the first one to bloom when it was open. It measured 13" long & the bloom was close to the same size in diameter! :) She does have large blooms. My favorite thing about her is the extremely 'intoxicating' smell! She smells like no other! lol! Remember though - she is pampered!! :) I hope yours will bloom for you this year! Kylie - Thanks! I'm working on a fur-baby thread! Shhhh! Our little secret! :)) Lucy - That darn rig has been there ALL summer! It has not moved! And 'yes' on the perfect shot. Sometimes though - it's impossible! lol! Brenda - I can't take 'night' pictures worth a darn - but thought I'd try for you! She really shows her stuff at night & it's the best time for her to 'strut!' Here are a few I took about 25 minutes ago! I think I got a little 'intoxicated' too! lol! The smell! The smell! It's funny you mentioned 'pollen!' I have a nice size 'Kong' & I'm hoping he blooms! ;) Karen - Yay! Glad she's blooming! And?? What do you think of her? :) Joyce - The guy doesn't travel! I've found out he repos! I don't think that rig is going anywhere - anytime soon! I can only hope though! :)) Mike

Chris - I haven't had the problem with white daylilies with blue or purple eyes appearing more peach, but I don't have too many of those. Mystic Mariner aerries and Cream come to mind, and I never have a peach problem with them. Here the cream daylilies usually appear more yellow.My seedling above and the other round seedling of mine with with a blue violet eye and edge have pink undertones. It could be Lambertson's looked that way because of your cool nights. I know a lot of his blues look purple farther north. Purple Eyed Dragonfly is a light cream yellow. Debra

LOL, Claire, definitely do NOT eat half grown chickens. I've never stepped on one but I have raised chickens from eggs to stew pot, including the cleaning of pens, the eventually slaughter, plucking and cleaning, then cooking. Yeah, I probably AM crazy. I'll never forget the smell of wet feathers. Of course I've also cleaned and plucked ducks, geese, pheasants, quail and one wild turkey. My brother used to hunt.... Which is why I can also field dress a deer, or skin and clean a rabbit, squirrel, porcupine, etc. Eventually I got smart and invoked the "you kill it, you clean it" rule. I think it was the snapping turtle that finally caused me to snap. (grin) Get it? Snap? Oh never mind..... I really liked the article and especially the diet. "If you want to eat it, cook it yourself". I like that, but I do not believe that we are unable to cook or that baking a cake from a mix is "from scratch", no matter what Mr. Balzer says. I did have to smile about the Chicken Kiev and minute rice, it was so much something my Grandmother would have done. She liked Julia but she had a BIG thing for "The Galloping Gourmet". LOL I loved the book "My Life in France" too. I read it on the plane on the way home from California, it was a gift from from forum members, along with a cookie cookbook that Makayla has appropriated. MY granddaughter will certainly know how to bake cookies, her own bread, how to can tomatoes and how much work it is to get that Chicken Kiev onto her plate next to the rice. Annie

Eventually we might do just that willtv, but our entire lawn needs a lot of work ("fill" and grading and more grass vs. weeds....). No point in digging up a new section of lawn to "build" a garden until all that is addressed. I have pics of one of my KIA end of summer, tomato sauce-making marathons somewhere (prob on our old desktop computer). Your pics remind me of those. The first or second year without a garden, I broke down and purchased a big bag of luscious, ripe, farm-grown tomatoes at our local farmers market so I could make garden tomato sauce to freeze. KA-CHING!!! Made one batch of the most expensive tomato sauce ever! kellienoelle--what a wonderful looking wine and conversation set-up you put together! I'll bet your friends enjoyed themselves in your beautiful new space!