Hi Chuy!!! Your bloom is magnificent !!! I have never seen such detail and beauty in this gorgeous bloom!!! I know you are " Over The Moon" with excitement as well as you should be!!! Congratulations to you!! I know you have been working hard !!! I can't tell you how proud I am... Sending you my best, and again... This is fantastic!! Take good care, Xo Laura

Oh God, I obsessed over this white decision for a very long time (which helped me choose/eliminate kitchen cabinet companies). Here's what we did. House trim is BM super white, everywhere. We selected a white cabinet color that we loved - which is very close but not exactly the same. We purchased the crown ourselves, so that it would match the crown in the house, and the KD took it and finished it along with the cabinets. We sent enough crown for the kitchen area so that all the crown in the area would match the cabinets. That left the window and door casing and baseboards. Those we are painting our house trim color, BM super white. Likewise with the built-in bench, bookcases, etc. We have a door right beside the cabinets which will be painted the house trim color, will match the casing, but the crown above will be the cabinet white. So far we are loving the result. However. What I should have done, to eliminate all this angst - is to choose a cabinet company that allowed a BM color of my choosing. What I did not want was a glaze, or an off-white, or yellow-ish cabinet color, beside our white trim. That made the crown complicated, so I steered clear of that and went with white, which is what I really wanted anyway.

Karen I haven't heard of her. I tend to read more 'thrillers' and I admit I get most of my recommendations from another forum that I participate in that is just for Mysteries & Thrillers. Authors such as Brian Haig and Steven Hartov and Thomas Cook...I would have to refer back to my Book Log but I have enjoyed all those recommendations. I use The Fantasic Fiction web site or "Stop Your Killing Me" for the lists of titles by the authors in the order written which I prefer when the author has a recurring main character. Pat

Nice purple seedling Debra. Pistil length looks short, so it should be nice and fertile. My yellow is in a pot here, so scape height was not as good as it was in Texas. There it was around 28". Expect they will be higher here when I get it in the ground. Colors were much brighter up here with the cooler temps, which was nice. Bloom is over 6". Thanks Signet, glad you like it.