Thanks for the comments! Josh, here's a closer pic of the flowers in the vase. Since they opened indoors instead of outdoors, the colors are not as vibrant as the ones that formed and opened outdoors (pretty common with clivias and other flowers too, which I know you know). The whole pot is all from half a dozen seeds from the same pot, so maybe there's some variation? In any case, here's a closer view plus a few of several blooms in the pot. The pot seems to want to do several blooms open and then new ones rather than one big explosion of blooms. I'm not sure I'm disappointed by that, as it means a longer display. Happy gardening everyone, Grant Flower in vase pic above, starting to fade with white creeping in. Several blooms open.

Let's go back to building a state-of-the-art, quality frig - that 'll last for 50 years (or more). And it seems to me that we should contact the builders to tell them that that's what we want. Rather than purposely building ones that are intended to last for 10 years - then the rich guys in the Western world (and those not so rich) need to buy replacements. And keep people working. So - let's build as many frigs as now ... but with each planned to last five times as long ... which would cost very little more per frig to produce than now, so the price for a long-life frig would not be far above the current prices. And find ways that we can help the impoverished people of the world to have the other four frigs that we built. So, for a start, I could buy a frig for me ... and one for someone in the Third World ... and still have the price of at least two more frigs left sitting in my pocket (allowing the price of the fifth frig as extra cost associated with the higher quality: which is far more than enough). We could use some of the money that we use to build military hardware ... and people to operate it - to arrange for more of that humanitarian assistance. So that less of the world's food (and we're getting really close to shortages) goes to waste. As it is ... a lot of the too-early-died frigs get hauled to the junk heap ... and junk heaps are getting bigger (shouldn't be a problem in Canada, the world's second largest country - yet our largest city found it useful to ship their crap across the border for disposal down near Detroit). Ten - twenty per cent of the world are on perpetual diet - and they say that our kids will live shorter lives because they are getting obese ... and diabetic at more youthful ages. More allergies, too. While 80% of the world often suffers hunger. We in wealthy North America had better get used to demanding quality frigs and other products, as our parents were used to ... because many of us are going to be unemployed ... or employed for lower wages, as was the situation in our part of the world until recently and is for much of the other parts of the world still. If we in the wealthy West had gained a reputation for such helpfulness, we'd have built a different and much more positive reputation in the world. It costs a lot of precious petroleum to dig iron ore, haul it to be smelted, and smelters are fuel hogs, then to flatten, shape, and assemble into the final product, then to haul to the store. And as we make more parts of the frigs, cars, etc. of plastics - the feedstock for that is precious petroleum ... or precious natural gas. We take fuel from our gas tank - to make the plastic parts for the car! Plus ... all of that burning of fuel for manufacturing and hauling causes a lot more pollution ... and global warming. Which won't cause problems for my grandkids - I don't have any. But those with grandkids should give that part of the situation some serious thought, as well. It's important for us to be much more serious conservationists. Good wishes for considering ways that you can use the world's resources more carefully and to make full use of them rather following our earlier paths of being so wasteful. ole joyful

Four Generations here together, in a photo for all to see, Happens only so rarely, but luckily to me. Learning from each other, no matter what their age. Living our family history, here on this scrapbook page. A moment in time to treasure, and be remembered by one and all. Will mean so much to those in this picture, especially those so very small. For time goes by so quickly, like millions of grains of sand. And there'll be times when you wish, you could just once more hold onto their hand. But when you miss their smiling faces, and can't remember how they look, Here will be their picture, treasured inside my book. I don't know if this is close to what you needed but I wrote it for you. Love Penny

Not sure what ont_gal meant but perhaps she was asking because of the ridges in his nails. Psoriatic arthritis can affect the nails causing ridges to form. That is an awesome picture. I absolutely love it!!!