EERe = extra early; repeats (reblooms) Ex = extended bloom (extended flowering)- open for lots of hours! No idea what EEV1 is. Never heard of that one. Unless it's EEVL? extra early to very late? A great idea: visit the American Hemerocallis Society web site and give yourself the tour! For one thing, there's a dictionary: http://www.daylilies.org/ahs_dictionary/dictionary.html

Hi everyone, Well, I am double posting this in 2 forums - I hope nobody minds. As promised, here I am posting about what in the world I've been doing all summer while traveling to & fro Wisconsin. As some of you already know, I work with fish-eating birds: cormorants, pelicans, herons, egrets, gulls, wood storks, etc. My husband and I have been working in Wisconsin for the past 3 years, but we also regularly work in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Ontario, and a few other places. Yes, we are a husband + wife team, working together out of the same office. Many people are surprised that we work together, but it is great. We make a fantastic team, and are often at our best under challenging field conditions. Great minds think alike, and being dear friends & in love sure helps too. (ok, enough with the mushy stuff). So now for a few photos from the vegetation surveys we did this month. Background: We are working on remote islands in Lake Michigan, around the Door Co. Peninsula area. All the islands have nesting double-crested cormorants and herring gulls. Some also have nesting Am. white pelicans and Canada geese. Back in April, we put up some 6 ft x 6 ft pens (we call them exclosures) to exclude the cormorants because they damage vegetation with their nesting activities (too much POOP!). So then we went back in August to catalog everything that grew in the pens, by plant species, and weighed it to also determine biomass. That meant breaking out the field guides, studying up on botany and the flora of Wisconsin, and bringing the plant presses for species we couldn't identify on the island. We compareed the exclosure plots to some "control" plots, which had nothing but 4 wooden stakes at the corners. We had 45 plots to do on 3 islands, plus another 3 islands down by the city of Green Bay that we did simple vegetation surveys on (no pens). It was alot of work, but very interesting. The bottom line: there are lots of nonnative species on those islands, like motherwort, catnip, pigweed, common mallow, stinging nettle and sow thistle. The native vegetation was primarily lambsquarter and smartweed species. Almost done clipping this 1-meter plot: Looking for small plants beneath the lambsquarter The finished, sampled 1-meter subplot Who would even know what this was?!?! I saved seeds to winter sow and see if I can't figure it out. The very last veg plot to measure. You can tell, because we look so happy! A friend found crawling across the plant press The stinging nettle I hacked through to make us a nice trail to get to the center of the island. At least its not poison ivy! Ok, that's all for now. Have a great evening. Katie (heh - I've been working on this post for days!)

oh, nah, it's NE WI, and if you live in the woods you're going to have them. Of course we don't go outside if we see them, but they're going to run unless you corner them, so don't corner them! They were back last night; I was laying on the couch watching tv when motion caught my eye. At first I was trying to figure out who's dog that was until it clicked that dogs don't have round ears! haha! Mom and cub were right up by our front door and so we got to watch them walk around the yard and then mom climbed up the bird feeder again... sigh.

This is so funny. I will print this out and give to an old chum for her to read at the doctor's office waiting room. She is very, very busy but, this will make everyone in the waiting room laugh. Time and a place for everything and this is a gift of laughter.