Impressive!

Well, I found one picture on this pc worth sharing. I know I have others on a portable drive. I'll go through it when I get time. Currently, if you read my other post you know my situation. Packing, readying for a trip. So, here's a picture taken from the deck off the back of my house as the sun was setting this faces E SE off the house. My home is situated between two ridges that run through the Black Hills. One ridge isn't very long, but protects from some of the worst storms, the other ridge runs through quite far running along I-90. On the left hand side of the image, you can see on the bottom half of the pines where they are thinned out. This is from a fire that ran across the back side of the ridge. A propane tank blew at a home located on the right hand side, about a mile down the ridge. It burned quite a bit of land and trees, about 5 years ago. Trees still have not fully recovered from this, those that will anyway. We still have sticks(dead trees) standing on the ridge. As well as tons of bare spots on the sides and top of the ridge. Which is very disappointing. However, It isn't State land, so they won't go in and clear it, nor will whomever owns it. It is ugly. But this particular spot I photographed isn't so bad. =) As you can see, dead looking grass! lol It's all over, every fall it does this, but it comes back every spring. Thanks for looking! ~Tina

Well, here's my small garden! We just got the trellis up this weekend. It's only 4x7 and an experiment really as I've never had a garden before that wasn't in five gallon buckets. We put it in the ONLY spot in the yard that gets full sun! It contains (from left to right, starting at the trellis) 16 pole beans, 2 canteloupe, 3 tomatoes, marigolds, gypsy pepper, basil, bibb lettuce, yellow and green peppers, oregano, leaf lettuce, turnips, rosemary, spinach, carrots, marigolds, zucchini, onions. There are a few extra veggies hanging out in pots and buckets too, including swiss chard sharing the front porch planter with the petunias and cucumbers in a planter to trail down a wall.

:-) Helpful links going forward: Pool School: www.troublefreepools.com Best on the web that I have found. I participate there as I do here. User supported like public television is, They are closely associated with www.tftestkits.com but accept no outside advertising like Garden Web does. Test kits: www.tftestkits.com It is very important that you learn to test your water. I can't tell you how many times the pool stores get it wrong and test strips are not accurate. They can indicate a presence but won't tell you true and accurate levels for the things you need to know. The Pool Calculator: www.poolcalculator.com Tells you how much of what to add. Disclaimer: I have no financial interests in any of the above links. I point my own customers there. Several contributor here are also there. Scott