Hummingbirds & Stuff... Oct 2015
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Comments (151)I have the red super king, the trinidad is what I am after. I don't have a rooted white COT, I am just sticking it in a pot now for you, so you could stick a red cutting in a pot for me. :) If the yellow one is solid yellow, I'll take that too, and I am bring you a yellow & pink one. I also went back to HD and picked up one of those crotons for you. :)...See MoreRoses & Stuff #12 ( Sept 2015)
Comments (95)Carol and Jess: I love the stories Carol shared. Thank you. There's a cardiologist, Dr. Maurice Rawlings, M.D. who wrote a book on NDEs. Most patients hate it when Dr. Rawlings applied electric shocks to revive them, except for this mail-man who screamed "Don't stop, I'm in hell." The experienced scared the doctor so much that he became a believer and wrote the book on NDE. Later on Dr. Rawlings (a Protestant) got to know a Catholic priest. The priest said, "Do you want to experience the holy spirit?" .. then the priest read a passage from the Bible, and Dr. Rawlings had the most hair-raising spiritual experience. Once a devout person "tune in" to God, the Holy Spirit leaves behind a "heavenly sense" that lasts forever, like the blessed rosary, or the powerful bible passage, or roses and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux's funeral. See below link: http://www.littleflower.org/therese/st-therese-faqs/ "Experience has shown that St. Therese's "shower of roses" is both figurative and actual. As she was dying in the convent infirmary, Therese could look out and see the rose bushes blossoming. She loved roses. She had thrown rose petals as a Child before the Blessed Sacrament. As she reflected on her quiet, hidden, and gentle life ending, she believed in faith that God had great things in store for her. She believed that her mission was only beginning as she entered the fullness of life with God. She explained: "After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses. I will spend my heaven doing good upon earth. I will raise up a mighty host of little saints. My mission is to make God loved..." Shortly after her death, the rain of roses began. Sometimes roses literally appeared, and sometimes just the fragrance of them. Cures of painful and fatal diseases and many other miraculous experiences were attributed to her intercession. "...See MoreRoses & Stuff #13 (2015)
Comments (70)Carol: you have snow? Wow!! I admire your growing roses in a cold zone. Thanks to the river nearby, we are blessed with warm weather until today, Oct. 3 where it gets to the 50's, but it will be up to 70's again in a few days. Today is the 1st time that I didn't go out to work in the garden, nor walk with my kid, I went shopping instead. I really like shopping early at 8 am in the morning, much less people, so I can get the best stuff. If there's only 2 or 3 items left, it's good stuff. Like 2 Nutella jar left .. my kid eats graham cracker and Nutella for her lunch at school, plus a turkey sandwich EVERYDAY. Kids are funny, they don't like variety, they like the same old thing. I asked my daughter what she wants for dinner, she said, "don't make anything new." She doesn't like it when I try new recipe. We once went with my nephew to Old Country Buffet when he was 8 years old. There were at least 6 different main-dish, plus 3 different soups, plus so many stuff in the salad-bar. He ate nothing but macaroni and cheese. My sister was mad, she said, "I could make you mac and cheese for 50 cents at home, why do I need to pay $10 just for that here?" Sam & Jim: you two crack me up ... that's funny !! I pray for Heather & your wife Sue .. having a virus doesn't feel good. Which reminds me to make brewer's yeast & honey & milk for my kid. Epicor is an extract from Brewer's yeast which is clinically proven to boost immune system & lessen one's chance of catching colds with its high B vitamins. Those Epicor pills are sold $30 per bottle on Amazon, while $10 of Brewer's Yeast last me for 4 months. If I mix it with milk, plus buckwheat honey, it's really yummy. http://www.livestrong.com/article/287160-what-are-the-dangers-of-epicor/ " EpiCor's beginnings go back to the Diamond V Mills company in Iowa, which for decades has made a special yeast culture animal-feed additive that helped increase production in dairy cows. Over time, an insurance company noted that certain employees — the ones exposed to the yeast product — rarely reported illnesses. The company tested its fermented yeast in the lab and found the product had more antioxidants than blueberries." Pink Peace, one of the 2 roses in my garden which is grafted on Dr. Huey .. really likes pea gravel: more petals & larger. Pic. Taken Sept. 30, when the temp. was over 75 & warm night....See MoreRoses & Stuff #14 (Oct Madness 2015)
Comments (69)Jim: your compost gave Prairie Harvest great colors !! My 2 PH blooms in the pot had boring light yellow. High phosphorus shift blooms to the red-zone, that's why Cantigny rose park's Carding Mill is pink, while mine is light apricot. The rose park uses a high-phosphorus fertilizer, which gave red-splotchy dots on their Double-Delight. Jim: Time for a new thread, I switched to Windows 10, and it's easier to see with shorter thread. thanks....See More
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This is a flamingo racetowin, Then theres another pink bird that is called A pink Ibis that looks like this
Then the last pink bird we can see in the southern part of florida is a pink spoonbill
like this one. All 3 of these birds can only be seen in and around the everglades about 8 hour drive south from where Im at unfortunately, so all 3 shots were taken at local zoo's. I personally would love to go to the everglades but would have to spend at least 2-3 nights there to see things like this in the wild. - 10 years ago
Some of the colorations vary from each bird, depending how much they feed on the pink brine shrimp. These guys must have been fed bucket fulls of it daily lol
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I thought I was taking pics of a bumblebee but it turned out to be a Carpenter Bee...lol...
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wish i could find my bee on flower pics, but have over 13,000 photos to go through lol. So ill put up a couple butterfly instead. took some of these at the butterfly gardens, but most are from my own gardens
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RUBY THROATED HUMMINGBIRD:
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Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird
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