jannorcal, thanks for the info on posting pics Several posters: I have tried Austin's, 9 in fact. So I'm not that eager to try more given the great number of other roses I want to get a look at. But I read about an Austin that's a hybrid rugosa plus Noisette. Said to be hardy and looks cute. Mistress Quickly. Not in my old CRL but maybe in a newer edition. Will check it out. And thanks for the many posts. John how did you get those dogs to sit still for that pic. Riku, fabulous. Well, I still think there is a lot of room on the Roses forum for posting about Austin's. And not enough discussion of the more rare roses out there. This spring I planted an Enfant de France. What in May! And it is covered with beautiful Austin style roses. Who knows how it will fare in the years ahead but I didn't read about it here. QR tipped me off on that one and sure enough Pickering had it. And I'm going to post a question about another interesting rose in QR, Mme. Driout. Also missing here.

Super. It has often been remarked that there aren't any "true blue" orchids and all have a hint of purple, but these are as near as dammit. Vanda Pakchong Blue is a a tremendous plant and has flowered for us 4 times in just over a year.

I always change the pets' names when I adopt them. I adopted Duras when he was 10 years old, changing his name from Taz. I just don't associate the name Taz with a 90# rottie (all the Tazzes I know are ferrets), so he got changed to fit our Rottie theme- Klingons. He took about 1 week to learn his new name. I got Snook when she was about 10 years old also. I don't know what her original name was, the foster called her Foxy (she's a pomeranian), and at first we called her Leia Marie but we have a friend named Leah and the first time we accidently called Leah Leia it was over. She went through a period of no name, then I called her IttyBitty which is what a character on Pushing Daisies was nicknamed, but instead of called her Olive (the character's first name) we decided on Snook (her last name). She doesn't seem to care what she is called. Sergei went through the most name changes. He's a husky I adopted from a client and his name was Alexander. My first husky was Aleksander and I just couldn't call him the same name. Also Leah has a dog named Alex who comes over quite a bit and it would have been confusing to have 2 Alexs in the house (almost as bad as a Leia and a Leah). My huskies are usually named after Russian czars, so my Aleksander was named after Aleksander the Great. There was another Aleksander who was called The Liberator and for a while I went with that. But Liberator lived up to his name and kept escaping from our kitchen gate and getting into trouble. One night when we were watching hockey, we heard a bunch of noise in the kitchen and it was the dog basically playing hockey with his empty food bowl. At that moment my favorite player, Sergei Samsomov scored a goal for the Hurricanes, and I decided to name the dog after him. I *almost* changed the dog's name when Samsomov got traded to another team. I have one dog that I never named. She's a rottie that I got from a client who was going to euthanize her. Her name was Ebony but I didn't like the name. Unfortunately I had already used up most of the female Klingon names. So her cage card at work said None Yet in the name space until I thought of a real name. Well, we kept calling her that and it stuck. I just changed the spelling to Nunyette. Mine also respond to "Hey Guys" ;)

Thank you gals---- Bev, I guess it is imagination that I come up with that allows me to put something together for fun. And of course a tutorial to follow it with. So far, I have been using PSPX and got away from that crashaholic 8. I hated that walking on eggs with PSP8. I hope X suffices and I can start "tuting" again. ~~Urlee~~