I saw one in a magazine several months ago. Can't remember if it was Better Homes and Gardens or Country Living. I think it was Country Living. They had used a large enamel bowl and arranged pretty pieces of china and a piece of flatware or two in the bowl, hid the small fountain pump under it and used it as a centerpiece on a table for a garden lunch. I have been going to make something similar but have just been too busy.:)

I've put the hosta, which is in a pot, in a shaded spot outdoors. It won't be moved at all this year. There are weatherproof time lapse cameras available on the market, but I decided to use my DSLR, a Canon Eos 550 (I believe it's called a Rebel in the States). The camera is on a tripod. It is put in exactly the same spot every eveneing, just before sunset, using the same settings every night (100 mm lens, AV 5.6, automatic whitebalance). Of course there will be slight differences in whitebalance and position, but nothing that can't be fixed with Photoshop. After a week (7 pictures) you can see the pips come out of the soil and grow. I expect the first leaves unfurling in a day or 10.

"Was anyone able to get rid of the gray banner with adblocker. I use firefox and the adblocker plus eliminated every ad except the gray banner at the bottom where AL used to live. " olychick, I had the same thing. Originally got rid of the ad itself but the gray box remained. I restarted Firefox and in the upper right corner of the gray box there was a little tab with "block" written in it. I clicked on that and that added that little ditty to the Adblock Plus list.

....Thank you both....that link would definitely explain as to why possibly-as my dh had to have his own pc/internet and got one this weekend. thanks again guys....