Hi misssherry - Sounds like you are already very busy with the leps. Good on you. Health issues are fun huh? Not! Looking forward to all the great pictures you post every year. Jmcat - We get three forms of P. coloro here... rudkini, clarki and comstocki. For some reserchers rudkini is a synonym of coloro, but there is three distinct forms here however you choose to lump or separate them. The ones seen so far have been mostly rudkini, with a few clarki. Not as much wild Thamnosma montana right around here as there is further NE and south, but they still wander into the outskirts and edge of town where I live to nectar. Hey susanlynne - As you probably remember I have always "had" to use toxonomic classification because of the crowds I ran with and have never relied on common names. I don't know all the localized common names of either leps or plants, but now days I also don't keep up on all the reclassifications and so changes in taxonomy either. If it's any comfort to you and others here, I am usually as confused with the abbreviations of localized common names used here so much as you may be with taxonomic names. Manage to figure a lot of them out by other facts given in a post, but it's comical sometimes when I don't have a clue. So if I loose/confuse any of you, sorry, but lets just say I am getting even with all of you. LOL And yes, I am starting to learn what these abbreviations are.

Betty, so sorry to hear about your DH, but be glad he's on the mend and can now enjoy summer with you & the family. It's always something, isn't it??? My son was in track and I remember all the practices & the meets, but I LOVE track & field events so I was at every one of them through grade school & highschool with him. My oldest grandson tried track & he just doesn't have his dad's genes I guess, now he's great at almost every sport, especially if it involves balance, he was "dropping in" on the big vert ramp on his skateboard when he was 4, but he seems to have lead in his butt when it comes to running & track. Guess he'll stick to his guitar & cycling! I bet your son does make state if the did that well his first year! I'm just like you, I LOVE digging in the earth, all my nails are gone as soon as spring arrives. Everyone says "why don't you wear gardening gloves" I hate them, I want to feel the soil, get in there & get dirty & you are right, if I'm not dirty & sweaty by nite time, I did not have a good day in the yard!!! LOL And, like you, have back & shoulder problems, but if we let that stop us, we deprive ourselves of one more simple pleasure in this life, so I plod onward & continue to work in my yard, despite the problems!!! I will be mostly lurking too, unless I have some pics from yard sales to share.

Lynn, your annual vacation is always Heaven to me! Such a huge group of you, so much fun, and the place looks like paradise for sure. I can imagine how hard it is to come home and get back into the old routine after that. :o( I'd probably turn into a witch and no one would want to get near me for a good while. LOL. Hey O.A., I was thinking about you....did you know that July 10th is Teddy Bear Picnic Day! a popular children's holiday in Canada, Europe, and Australia --- is held every year on July 10. On this day children and parents have tea parties with their teddy bears. ;o) And then coming up is July 17th Cow Appreciation Day July 24th National Day of the Cowboy Anybody want to play? LOL hugs, Karen

Well, I am a Flat Earther, and they are even more technologically inept than the Luddites. I post from my newish desktop (a Dell) using Firefox as my browser. My wizard son in law provides all our computers and sets them up. Here's how I get here: type letter "r" in the Google search box. The drop down will show Rose Forum at the top of Google's list. Click on Rose Forum, which then comes up at the top of the search results. Click on Rose Forum again. And I'm in. That's a typed letter "r" and two clicks. I've never once had to sign in. I don't even remember my password. We have passwords?? I post comments and photos all the time with no problem. How do I do this ?? Is it the gnomes that run everything in that little black box, a so called computer? Diane