A magnolia tree on campus near the Rotunda. For three or four days in the early spring its breathtaking. Image of one of the flowers

murraysmom, Your Rocket is so cute! I can tell that he has sweet eyes. :) My nut-so actually was upside down, btw: nicole, awwwwww.... poor Midnight! I need to know... is she staying with you? My mom adopted ChooChoo -- same as Midnight, he was an all-black cat that was abandoned when a neighboring renter moved away. ChooChoo always had an eating problem.... I thought it was because he had been left abandoned and starving by his original owner... under my mom's care he ended up winning the "fat cat" contest at the local Humane Society and had a half-page color photo of himself in the city's newspaper. He required a special scale at whopping 32 pounds. He had a 26" waist and at the time he could have fit into my jeans. sigh. This post was edited by party_music50 on Thu, Jun 12, 14 at 16:23

Ok, I looked it up and it is Ostrich fern, but also found out people have gotten very sick from eating them due to not cooking them long enough.... good to know. Editing to add the following:"The term fiddlehead is used to refer to plants in 3 ways: (1) the young curled leaf of any fern; (2) the ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris of the Aspidaceae family); and (3) the young curled leaf of the ostrich fern used as a vegetable (often called fiddlehead greens). "

Beautiful photos today! I love your garden gate, Nicole. I'm coming right over to see it in person! LOL! This is a huge wisteria vine at Kew Gardens, London. The vine was trained to grow into a large sphere, forming a "room." Benches have been placed inside where people can sit, and one can be seen on the right-hand side of the photo.