Oh, sure calamity, just make me want to tear my path out and change it to look like that one, lol. That's really nice. Thanks for posting it. The pool demo contractor hands out photos of the pool with the poem written in it and thinks it's really funny. I went out with a can of spray paint the night before they started and found out that I'll never pass as a graffiti artist. Next, I found out that it was really hard to take a photo of the whole poem because the pool was L shaped. Duh! It rained for 6 solid hours here on Friday night. Sure glad I kept the pump. I started it up as soon as there was enough water to pump and left it on through the whole storm. The back yard is currently lower than the sidewalk, so the water has nowhere to go. The deck drains are also gone, so the slope now drains directly into the flat part of the yard. That will be fixed as the work continues. It's raining again today, but not nearly as much. The sun will return tomorrow. Linda

Ligularia dentata was what carol had said. Have a look at the link below. Here is a link that might be useful: Here are some links via google

Thank you everybody! The camera I use is a Sony Mavica MVC CD-400, given to me and my BF from his mom, it's an older camera at only 4 mega pixel, but I've learned to use it a little better this year, taking lots of pictures of my flowers, especially the daylilies. I use the micro setting on it for all my close-up shots of my flowers. Sometimes I have real steady hands for getting the close-ups really good, other times I'm shaky. Then I touch up the photos a bit in Picasa to get them looking a little more clear and try to get the colors more true, though it doesn't always work. This picture however the camera picked up the colors perfectly with very little touching up. I think I like taking pictures of the flowers as much as growing them! Karen

Sweeten Creek really calls me today, I really like the look of it. Sundown Ripples has a very interesting pattern, although I'm not certain I really like the flower. It does make you want to look at it again though.