The Goldenrain tree has always been one of my favorites, especially when they get bigger, although they can look a little coarse when younger. Another one of my very favorite trees is Sourwood, Oxydendrum arboreum. It has a more upright habit and is really drop-dead gorgeous IMHO. It can get taller, but it's very slow growing and easily kept to size. There are also some very nice Crabapple cultivars that are disease resistant in our area and are sure beautiful in bloom. Bboy your info on 'Raywood' Ash is taken way out of context. Those are California authors/experts from a California organization (Saratoga) published in a journal with many Cali-centric articles. Ash diseases are different for them, where they are trying to grow these just too warm. Raywoods do great here and in actual practice most have that stereotypical near-perfect ash shape. They're on many of the recommended lists for Seattle trees by local experts. [1 2 3 4] Locust8, while Albizia is also one of my very favorite trees, I just want to make sure you know that they are almost always considerably wider than taller. - Tom

I need photos of the houses in Old Hickory! :) That's what I'm after. I'll publish the photos at my website, to contrast and compare the houses in Old Hickory with the houses in Norfolk. Plus, I know there were EIGHT designs of "Dupont Houses" and I only have images/photos of TWO of these designs. We have many of these Dupont Houses in Norfolk, but I can't begin to identify them, because I only have photos of TWO of the eight designs. So, in short, I need photos of those houses in Old Hickory that were built by Dupont. I do have addresses in Old Hickory. Rose

There is another solution at HD where they sell individual soap dispensers. There is a line of dispensers that includes both the screw on plastic bottle AND a tube with a tapered stopper that fits various sizes of container openings. The price is dependent on the model of pump and the finish and runs from $23 to $30. If you are looking for a new pump and want to use a large container under your sink, this is a viable option. On the other hand, I just made my own tube set-up. If you notice, the picture of the Never MT inserts shows two holes in each - one for the tube and a tiny one for air. I drilled the hole in the cap of a 3 qt container 1/64 th inch smaller than the outside diameter of the soft, flexible tubing so the fit is quite snug. Then I drilled an air hole. Hope this helps others. The only thing left to do is to determine if the soap we use (Amway LOC) needs to have a check valve installed. Will know by tomorrow. Hope this helps.

I Thank you for the link. I will get back to that when my husband finishes his Master and Margherita recording.It is interesting what you say about languages. I agree. MY first Language was Thai or Siamese as it was known then ( kind of dates me). The verbs stayed the same and one stated the condition as an addition. Learning English was confusing. They did not have a word for AND either. I got sent to the principles office due to the fact that I categorically refused to say the word "and". I could not make sense of it. There was no rational reason for its existence. The teacher could not give me an understandable reason for it. She made me say each letter and I made the sounds but would not say the word. I was a tad pigheaded. well after my mother came into the office and threatened me with bodily injury if I didn't say each AND every AND when it appeared on the paper. LO and behold, a flood gates of ands ensued from me. The added complexity of a well used "and" was very fascinating. Maybe with your concept of language this might lead to More and more as a function applied over past, present AND future. LOL. it is very different in emphasis to past , present , future. I am much more drawn to the clear species. I should try the Nursery out in Medina Texas. I can go ask around some of the growers here. Otherwise a trip to the Big Bend is in the offing.