I was so happy to see your picture of 'Early Days' since I just planted mine last week from Blue Ridge....I am now even more delighted that I got it! I hope mine will look as good as yours when & if it blooms this year. According to Bob Selman it is a very reliable bloomer. I love the bicolor bloomers and couldn't afford 'Clown Parade', so I opted for 'Early Days' as a much cheaper alternative. (under ten dollars versus close to a hundred!) Thanks for showing your pretty pictures.

I'm not any sort of an expert but I'd vote for fox on this one, based on the head/ears shape/proportion. If this was a young fox, 10am might not be too unreasonable. Foxes gotta get a clue (and breakfast) too.. You might call DNR or the Parks/Rec folks or the Extension office (if they have such a thing here) to see if there have been other sightings. If they have, you can find out whether you need to be concerned about the critter being ill/scary. But HOW COOL to see that in the yard! I saw one about 1/2 mile from the house one early evening, very surprising to me but not totally unexpected since we have several woodsy areas nearby, along with the race track/training area. Lynne in Bowie Here is a link that might be useful: Link to compare pics of local coyote and fox

When is the last time you had your hair cut dramatically? -- I had about 3 inches cut off last week, but it wasn't dramatic enough for people to say anything. So I think the only dramatic cut I've ever had was when I was 19 and had very long hair cut off (think Jamie Lee Curtis short). It was probably 20 inches of hair. Unfortunately, if Locks of Love was around at that time, I hadn't heard of them. I wish I had before/after pictures of my DS#1 who got his cut last week. He's 15 and has soft, silky blonde hair that women would pay money to have on their heads. He wore it longish, shaggy, it touched his shoulders and he was protective of it. We could make him cry threatening to cut it off. Last week, he announced he just wanted it cut. Now it's short, what you would call a "clean cut" young man. That was drama! Everyone who knows him was shocked! People were standing around watching at the hair cutters watching this teen boy make such a change, and all that fine blonde hair drop to the floor. I really regret not taking pictures. When is the last time you wore a hood on your head? --Maybe last week, when it was raining, I pulled up the hood of my sweatshirt. Do you like Dr. Suess? -- Yes. I like the longer books better than the beginning reader stuff. When is the last time you saw someone pulled over by the police? -- There is a lot of traffic around here, so the only day I don't see it is a day I don't drive anywhere. Have you ever been in a haunted house that was actually scary? -- If you do mean the commercial ones, I do not like them and haven't been in one since I was a child of about 10. I was scared then, and I knew the people dressed up inside. If you mean the presence of the supernatural, my mom and I are convinced there was "something" in the old farmhouse we lived in when I was a teen, we both had too many strange experiences to ignore it. But we didn't find it scary, oddly enough. Do you like to wear hats & scarves? -- Not really. I'd prefer not to be cold enough to need them. Do you have any bumper stickers on your car? -- No. My kids think it means I'm not proud of them. (Ya know the minivans where you can tell what school and sport every child in the family attends..) But if I started that, it would never end, I'd have 12 bumper stickers on my van and growing. So I just don't even start. I don't like that kind of sticker. I do like the ones that are funny, though, and enjoy reading other people's! I'm not bold enough to get ones that say what I really think.

What is your favourite website? Meeting House and some of the garden web plant forums. What makes you different from everyone else? I don't find it necessary to be afraid of harmless creatures...spiders, snakes, bees, wasps, and I let them live. Would you rather take pictures or be in them? Take pictures, altho looking back on my old pics, I am glad to have a few pictures of myself in younger days, because I would rather have teeth pulled than a picture made of myself. Do you easily accept when your wrong? Well, if I was wrong, I would accept it, but.... ;) Do you use replacement words or do you swear like a sailor? I don't cuss as bad as a sailor, but I sure don't use replacement words.