Hello Everyone Restaurant Across The Bay This picture was taken on 6/18/11 From Under The Niantic Bay Draw Bridge in Niantic, CT. This picture was taken with a Canon SX10 IS camera. Have A Nice Day Linesman

I wish, we could grow them here successfully. But they just don't. To hot, and to windy. Taylor lake, near Rush Springs Oklahoma

Liz, someone else wondered about the holes and did some research, here is what they found: A little side trip from yesterday's journey. The "Pipe Corner of the South" sign is a downtown landmark, in part because its survival is so unlikely: it belonged to Royal Cigar, which was a downtown fixture for decades. It moved up to Buckhead in 1991 (later moving over by Emory, then going out of business in 2005), and somehow the sign was left behind (not sure why -- the one 1991 AJC article I found indicated that it would be removed). And no one's seen fit to remove it in the intervening years, which is very un-Atlanta behavior. Some web research indicates that those holes aren't bullet holes -- there were neon bulbs depicting smoke rising from the pipe.

That's a cozy tent, Moni! Does this mean you won't be starting this thread for a while? Everyone, brace yourselves for my annual onslaught of iris pics (to be followed by my annual onslaught of rose pics). Here's Queen Dorothy, chosen beause my mom's name was Dorothy.