How can anybody not mind if they eat their flowers? :-( At least you got to see yours for one morning. The deer ate my growing seedlings down to almost nothing and I will never know what they were. Crossing my fingers that the deer go eat at someones yard who does not care that they do. Lucy

Barb I am, I am lol There are not many but I safe seeds. Just harder this year since I can not just leave them laying out to dry. Precious is not so precious when it comes to leaving things alone lol. She bites the bags open. Even bit the toothpaste tube open lol winking at Dorothy. Just for the fun of it. ;-) Lucy

Dorothy, to show how much I love my sunshine, I can come up with many ways to display her favorite flower :-) Ann I hope my wishing that your day is going to be FUN and without stress at work, helped. Or? Caren I had to LOL...I had to have a BBQ grill...and I am just not cooking much or BIG these days anymore :-( Ingrid you show me over and over again how much joy our angels bring to us!!! Brenda that is all I want to do...bring joy with what I do. Just what you do brings this loved feeling to the newbies and US. Hugs and thanks to all Lucy

Hi Poochella! And Plantlady! Poochella you wrote; A good reminder of Mother Nature's fickle ways Jim. And yes indeed she can be! You also asked: Why do people even LIVE in Buffalo NY? It gets hit more times each winter than I can even count. Yes they do get hit quite hard at times with whats known as Lake Effect Snow but Syracuse tops them by far and coming off Lake Ontario rather than Buffalos Lake Erie. I lived in Syracuse for 32 years and now live 6 miles east whereas this 6 miles can make a great difference in amounts of snow that can be gotten living so close to the Thruway as this is considered a boundary line for heavy Lake Effect. Plus after the LE passes we get hit with a Northerly backlash coming off the Ocean as the Low moves away. Heres something to ponder over when thinking about snowfall and Buffalo: Syracuse is known for its snowfall. With 115.6 inches (293.6 cm) average,1. [3] the Syracuse metro area receives more snow on average than any other large city in the United States.[4] Research has even shown that Syracuse is the snowiest large city in the world.[5] Syracuse continually wins the Golden Snowball Award, among Upstate cities. Its record so far is 192.1 inches (487.9 cm). The high snowfall is a result of the fact that the city receives both lake effect and nor'easter snow. Snow most often falls in small (about 1-3 inches/2-8 cm), almost daily doses, over a period of several days. Larger snowfalls do occur from time-to-time, and even more so in the northern suburbs. One notable blizzard was the Blizzard of 1993, during which 42.9 inches (109 cm) fell on the city within 48 hours, with 35.6 inches (90.4 cm) falling within the first 24 hours. Syracuse received more snow than any other city in the country during this storm, which shattered a total of eight local records, including most the snow in a single snowstorm.[6] Ironically, virtually no snow fell during the Blizzard of 2006, where the Catskills and New York City saw over two feet (60 cm) of snow fall in about one day. Poochella! Despite these Winter facts we have some of the most beautiful scenic land and Spring and Summer weather that can be offered, except for 2006. And with the Finger Lakes that are stunning and picturesque that produce some of the best wines in the world, and they are only a few miles away. And Plantlady just as a side note to your saying "Some people say dahlias are hard to grow??? Just throw em on the compost pile - its as easy as that! As I was preparing to put this years tubers to bed, I reached into one of the large boxes to pull out some of the peat moss. I was surprised to see some white growth that was coming from a tuber I overlooked and was the box last in late March or early April. The growth was curly-cued and probably at least 6 feet long. It was hard for me even to believe it could have lasted that many months on its own extraordinary ability to want to survive and grow. The are a lot hardier than most can imagine and then again yet can be so delicate. Thanks for listening! Jim