You will rarely see a good blue in the sun... blue coloring in hostas is actually a wax coating over a green(chlorophyll) background. Maybe the best example of this is from the Halcyon family. Halcyon is a nice wax blue. June is a sport from Halcyon with the blue wax genes intact. On the other hand, Devon Green is a green sport from Halcyon that lacks the wax gene and is a shiny green. June Fever, the very bright yellow (in Spring) with a thin green margin is bright and shiny precisely because it is not, as we were originally told, a June sport but rather a sport from Devon Green - it lacks the wax gene and is thus shiny. In the sun, the heat, or after a lot of rain and overhead watering, the waxy blues will lose their wax and become green. It seems that some cultivars will generate more wax, while others never seem to develop it again in the same season after it melts away. The Halcyon clan has been the best at holding blue into the heat of summer. El Nino and First Frost both are still a good blue with the added advantage of crisp white borders. Touch of Class holds up very well in sun. This family has the added advantage of standing up longer into the fall as well. They often look good after many of the other hostas have died back from the first frosts. A surprise for me is how well Kiwi Full Monty, a striptease sport with bluer leaves, holds its blue into summer. And the new flushes will be very blue even if the older ones have lost their wax. So, yes... there are some general rules - but there are plants in each category that do just the opposite. usually yellows get yellower in more sun and more chartreuse in more shade, the simple reason being the plant needs more chlorophyll to grow in lower light conditions. But there are exceptions - yellow plants that get more greenish in sun. And among the green ones, there are probably more that become less green in bright light and darker green in lower light - but there are some that reverse this. I've never seen an exception in the blues - a plant that gets bluer in brighter light. I sometimes plant blue plants in the sun - though they won't look as good, they will often grow much faster, allowing me to get some extra growth on them before moving them into the shade.

Yikes...I was wrong. The info is not on our home page today. Today I found it in the 'about' section. Here it is... Update on Terms by Mark Zuckerberg Tue 10:17pm A couple of weeks ago, we revised our terms of use hoping to clarify some parts for our users. Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information. Based on this feedback, we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised. Many of us at Facebook spent most of today discussing how best to move forward. One approach would have been to quickly amend the new terms with new language to clarify our positions further. Another approach was simply to revert to our old terms while we begin working on our next version. As we thought through this, we reached out to respected organizations to get their input. Going forward, we've decided to take a new approach towards developing our terms. We concluded that returning to our previous terms was the right thing for now. As I said yesterday, we think that a lot of the language in our terms is overly formal and protective so we don't plan to leave it there for long. More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world. Our terms aren't just a document that protect our rights; it's the governing document for how the service is used by everyone across the world. Given its importance, we need to make sure the terms reflect the principles and values of the people using the service. Our next version will be a substantial revision from where we are now. It will reflect the principles I described yesterday around how people share and control their information, and it will be written clearly in language everyone can understand. Since this will be the governing document that we'll all live by, Facebook users will have a lot of input in crafting these terms. You have my commitment that we'll do all of these things, but in order to do them right it will take a little bit of time. We expect to complete this in the next few weeks. In the meantime, we've changed the terms back to what existed before the February 4th change, which was what most people asked us for and was the recommendation of the outside experts we consulted. If you'd like to get involved in crafting our new terms, you can start posting your questions, comments and requests in the group we've createdÂFacebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. I'm looking forward to reading your input. sooey

I love Facebook. My facebook friends include some of my current friends, old friends that I had lost track of - people that I had often wondered how they were - what they were up to, etc. and LOTS of family - my mom, my dad, my sister, aunts, uncles, cousins.... my great aunt is on Facebook and she's in her 80s. I have 18 people in my list of friends who are over 50 (I just went and counted), so it really isn't just for younger people. I do have photo albums on my page, but they're only viewable by my friends, and their is no one in my "friends" that I wouldn't feel comfortable showing photo albums to if they were visiting my house. One thing that I think is great about it is that you can make your Facebook profile as public OR as private as you want it to be. My mom is in Italy right now, and she's posting pictures from her trip every few days on her page. She only has about 10 people on her list, but they're all people that she wants to share her photos with, and Facebook is a great way to do it easily. Only people that you accept as your friend can check out your profile, and you can put as much or as little on your profile as you want.

I feel like I just woke up in someone else's bed and need to get back home quick before my husband finds out :) I feel Houzz is an infomercial for professionals, which is fine - nice of them to share their photos so we can be inspired, but if you ask them how they did something or where to get it, they say "call me" or "I don't know, the client picked it out". It lacks the sharing and caring that was the foundation of GW. It seems a clash of cultures imho.