Good to see Bowie again. been a long time since he was in a photo.Babe is looking great too,and has grown.I like orange cats, Use to be a orange tom cat came to my back door about once a week, looking for a meal.he always got fed and I had hoped he would stay here but, he was always traveling on aafter a couple hours here. I called him MORRIS after the cat on the tv commercial.Thanks for including them in your photos. Jean

Sorry for the delay in responding everyone . . . been a long week :( Like I said, I did manage to get all of them potted up last Thursday, but by the time I was done it was dark so I couldnâÂÂt take a picture that night. But I surely did yesterday. :p Here are the ones that fit in 1 gallon or smaller And then the BIGUMZ in 2 gallons. Empress Wu, Grand Canyon, and Sagae all went into 2.5 gallon. NOT complaining :p DonâÂÂt mind Wolverine on the end of the wall there . . . ran out of room on the ground. Mocc - indeed you are the Godmother to Smooth Sailing. It was (once again) your pictures that landed it on my list. I wish I had a fancy-schmancy time lapse camera. But I enjoy the 2-3 day intervals I have been keeping up with recently. There is enough change that each picture is still unique. I like to set them in a separate folder and then scroll through fast to give the effect of a slow motion movie, or something like that. :p The things we do to amuse ourselves. Leafwatcher - Spill it . . . which 7 do we share ? IâÂÂm curious what you chose for your garden. Babka - you caught that play on words âÂÂeh ? CanâÂÂt get nothing by you. :p Don - I couldnâÂÂt agree more, Devon Green us so underrated. It was one of the first on my list. I love everything about it. Overall size, leaf/mound shape, good genes, nice substance, and that color. Delicious ! Gesila - How lucky you are to live within a reasonable driving distance of Hallson. IâÂÂd have no paycheck if I lived that close. Cher - It was a lot to pot up at once, but since they come bare root I didnâÂÂt want to mess around and dawdle. I actually left work an hour early that day and still ended up finishing when it was dark. I think it was Babka that said âÂÂa labor of loveâÂÂ. Jon - Obsession is such a strong word :( MadPlanter - How wonderful that your little guy is blooming. I have to wait until Jan/Feb to see mine again. I have a handful that do end up blooming in the summer, but they are sporadic and usually donâÂÂt last long in the heat. IâÂÂm going to try bringing them into the air conditioning this year to see if that doesnâÂÂt help prolong the blooms. Connie - Ohhhh I never said I had a place to put them all :p Thanks again everyone for looking. :) Ludi

@dBrad: start thinking first about locations. When it's time for excavation, there may be some options for where piles are pushed, and you may be able to say: "can you push a pile right here?" -- having a nice perch for your camera makes a big difference. It's usually pretty late in the project that they need to pull the mountain(s) down for backfill or final grading, though if you've got a basement digout and a story on top, like we do, be aware that the backfill after the basement level is done will take some of the material. Otherwise, consider trees, other buildings, etc., that may do the trick at getting your angle on affairs. Re: cameras: I mentioned that I recently got one of these time-lapse cameras, made specifically for the task. One thing I don't like is that it tries to bump the ISO way up as the evening comes on, so, rather than a fade-to-black you get a nice fade-to-noise. ISO noise is then made even worse when you lace the pics into a movie. I'm sure there's a way to filter it out some, but it would be nicest if the camera let you max the ISO, or something. When I was using my DSLR, I just used it in manual mode, so there was never any lighting adjustment, which wasn't always optimal when I didn't get things just right at the start of the morning and, e.g., wound up with over-exposed pictures most of the day (easy to do with an all-white ICF house). So, there are some small challenges whatever way you go.

I think I'll work on a how-to after all is said and done and I can maximize my contribution there. For instance, I'd like to figure out how to improve the quality of the videos taken by my cheap time-lapse camera, to make those much closer in quality to my DSLR, especially in changing lighting. It may be impossible, but I want to give it a shot. I'll try to put together a how-to in a couple of months. Thanks for the encouragement.