Benvenuta Fiamma! I'm another one of the handful of people living in Italy who post here, and it's nice to meet someone else from Italy! I live in the hills in the province of Piacenza and have a large, young garden in the country; I like a lot of the same roses you like. Your pictures are very good. Are you by any chance the fiamma who posts on Compagnia del Giardinaggio? My CdG name is MelissaP (and it has NOTHING to do with the book!). Congratulations on finding your way here: this is a marvelous place to learn about roses, and people are very generous with help. Melissa

They are beautiful cats and beautiful butterflies. I went outside last night, you guys, and found MORE Black Swallowtail eggs, if you can believe it. I seem to be having a ton of them this year. Perhaps they are sticking around our area instead of moving up into Michigan, KEK? We are still getting tons of rain; are already over our annual estimated rainfall; we've broken the record this year for rainfall amounts and we're not even thru yet for the year yet! Temps have not yet gotten into the high 90s and 100s, which we're normally at for July and August. That, coupled with the rainfall, IMHO, has led to more butterflies hanging around in our region than ever before. I have about 50 BST eggs in a container and as soon as they hatch I will separate them so that there are only about 5-10 per container. I had to bring them in because the wasps are just thick in the yard and between them and the spiders, they were eating the eggs in ONE SINGLE day. I have not found any on the parsley, but have found the most eggs on fennel (green and bronze), a few on Rue and fewer yet on Zizia. They will eat almost anything, limited to these plants, though. Susan

I like the New Venitian Gold. I too have to keep my outdated oak cabinets. But with the Persian Brown granite I selected, they will look fine. We are in the middle of our remodel. This site has been invaluable. Budget is probably the most important consideration for most. Keep things in perspective. Good luck and post after pictures.

I am Irnes and I am new here i started a site called http://www.plan-a-diet.com and I need some people to post up some good recepies. Thanx any help is greatly appreciated. Irnes