Ornithogalums??? Oh vetivert, you are bad, but Ornithogalum is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of spring chores and getting to work outside, usually in late Feb. Now I realize my question could have and should have been phrased a lot better. How about this? If the Bulb Forum members would submit their (own) pics of plants and blooms grown from bulbs for a new forum picture, what should it be? . Should it be open to anything grown from bulbs? Should it maybe exclude such things that have more 'specific' forums of their own, such as Lily, Tropical, and House Plant? Should it be an individual bloom, or as you suggested, maybe a still life flower arrangement of numerous delectable blooms grown from bulbs? Please 'scuse me for just having tunnel vision and tunnel thoughts of just Daffodils. At any rate, the folks who are having their spring now, can hopefully be trying to get some great pics. Ok...so when does anyone think we could/should start taking picture submissions? Should we wait until late 2010 so glads could be included by those in the US who grow them? Should we wait a full year (or nearly) so the members down under have an opportunity to have another summer blooming season, like for glads? hmmm...what is fairest? I guess before proceeding, I should check with the 'Powers that be' to see for sure if they would be willing to get the pic changed and updated with a pretty pic of our choosing. I hope lots of folks will give their input and in time, post their pics for entry. In doing a search here on the forum, it seems that Tulips and Daffs are the 2 things most often posted about. I imagine though that tulips are most frequently asked about, due to them having problems, or emerging early, or for not blooming a second season when they are thought to be perennials like daffodils. Here is a spring 2009 pic of a bouquet of Daffodil Show rejects. Hopefully in 2010, I can put together a much better arrangement and pic. Sue...hoping/planning to start daff planting today...maybe

Oak town...that planter is a metal hanging "bucket"...I think I got it at a Southern Living party several years ago. The flowers are silk (I know this is frowned upon), but I plan to change them out as seasons change. Thanks for liking it! CCinTX...I can not find the color sample of the green color I used, but I bought a recliner and used the next to the lightest color that was on the color chart that matched that chair....but it is a light olive/sage color. I had used about this same color in my last house and it is so easy to decorate around. Glad you liked it also! Ppbenn..you have a good memory...yes, I lost my DH recently and moved "back home" and so glad to be back nearer my families.

Yes, desertsteph.....I was thinking about cutting the 12x12 sheet into 4 lines of glass pencil tiles...and inserting them in the cream tiles about 4-6 inches up from the granite counter. Or I might just use the cream with some color of soft taupe grout......but it is the wall color that I am debating about. There is very little wall space that would show...so do I match the wall color with the grout color, or paint it green like is in the connecting dining room? I was looking at Lowes....and if you want look it up, the background tile is a biscuit color sheet with smaller subway tiles....and the glass tiles are a variation of cream and browns. They are finishing the sheet rock this week...and will start to paint next week....WOOHOO!! No more wall than there is in the kitchen, I might let them paint it green and get one of my kids to repaint it brown if I don't like the green.....decisions, decisions, decisions!!!

Brutalist art and architecture is a trend, and it will pass, just as rococo has, but I tend to think that in the future it will not be appreciated as much as rococo, whatever the current trend becomes. Even the Italian futurists, who hated classical and renaissance art and architecture, expected whatever they replaced it with to fall out of style and be replaced with something else. At least the Futurists created what I consider beautiful art and architecture, even if very little of the architecture got built. I very much appreciate their architecture over the brutalist movement. For me, the brutalist movement reminds me of "The emperor has no clothes." I think it deserves a place in history, but not a major one. Brutalist architecture lends itself to being enhanced by graffiti, which I do think improves it, but I often find graffiti depressing, especially when it is not placed on brutalist architecture.