Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden 6500 South New Hope Road, Belmont, North Carolina open daily (9 am to 5 pm) except on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day; an admission fee is charged for non-members. The garden dates back to 1989 The gardens opened to the public in 1999

What a fabulous turn out of over 4,500 visitors over the two day, first time event! If you'd like to see photos, click here and here If you made it to the event, what did you learn? What did you enjoy most?

I know this was from a long time ago.... It IS caterpillar scat that has rehydrated from the water in the bowl. cater pillars "launch" it either 4 or 40 times their body length. I can't remember which. This is thought to be done to keep predators like wasps from finding their nest and larvae. I had one bounce off my head and land on the patio table. I thought it was a squirrel pellet till I noticed the lobed, extruded look to it and searched till I found what it was. Probably will not harm the animals.... It's plant matter.

I use software called or Media Show by Cyberlink. I make end of the year graduation shows and I used to use PowerPoint ALL the time...but then you get into issues like processor speeds and different versions of powerpoint...and then dvd's became an option. Mediashow will let you save as an exe program that can be opened on any computer regardless of the software they have...plus you can convert to dvd if you have a dvd burner (I believe you can save as mpeg) AND it has way cool effects!!!! Some of them way cooler than powerpoint.