I've pretty much given up on the name thing, so that's ok :-) But thank you for the compliments on my photography! I am a goldsmith and I've had to learn small scale photography to get shots of my jewelry creations, so really I just took the skills I use for that and applied the same techniques to taking this picture of my little plant. The most important thing is my light box setup. I paid $10 for mine on ebaY, but you can also get the same sort of effect using a small translucent rubbermaid storage-type bin thingy if you set it up right. You want to have something that sorta "filters" the lights you use (since you can't use a flash on small items, you have to light it up good--but they have to be not shining directly on the stuff you wanna snap) I don't use any fancy/expensive lights or backgrounds with my light box.. Just a clip-on-cheapo-task-lamp light and whatever piece of fabric or paper I feel like tossing in for the background. cheap! With my jewelry, I've had to work for a few years at finally being able to get good shots, so it's hard to explain in words. But I got all my info and tips online, so that means anyone can! Here's a link to a googling of 'jewelry photography' with a zillion good tips & tricks--many of which I got my knowledge from. (And yeah I know we're not talking about photographing jewelry here, but like I said, this same stuff is what I applied in taking the shot of my plant above) Hope that helps you get started! And thanks again--I am really proud my photography has finally gotten good enough to get complimented!!

Thanks for weighing in. The variations in cultivars are often so subtle to me that I really can't tell the difference. I was thinking 'lipstick' too, but after googling pics of Frank Reinelt, it looks closer to that. When I went to bed last night, I thought it was closest to 'gilva red', but now more conviced of Reinelt. Especially with the 2 pups it had. The wee one absolutely looks like a Graptopetalum, but I remember distinctly incising him off of a stem yesterday. So a larger specimen has to be in this last bunch I've acquired. I would've noted a volunteer in the pots, cause freebies always make the haul sweeter, har har. Anyhow, thanks for your input. You should've seen the wretched state they were in before surgery & repotting. The nursery man thought I was nuts when he saw my overgrown & sickly selections.

Might as well bump this again. Most of it has been said, but I'll add that with tents you generally get what you pay for. I wouldn't buy a new tent that costs less than ~$150. And if the place you're shopping for tents has more than a few tents for under $100, I probably wouldn't recommend getting your tent there. That's not to say that WalMart, Target, and the like don't have some serviceable tents, but they sell more bad tents than decent tents. And many of the nicer tents sold by more outdoor-oriented stores have lifetime warranties in case you ever snap a pole or have the shock cords go limp. The above may sound harsh, but a tent is THE piece of gear that can make the difference between a horrible camping experience and a fun one. All it takes is cutting a trip short once, or having to hang sleeping bags out to dry, and the cost difference between a nice tent and a cheap one seems trivial. I can tell you that sitting in a nice Kelty tent during a pretty severe thunderstorm knowing we would stay dry sure beats my old cheap tent where you hoped you wouldn't get too wet. All that said, a tent with a full rain fly is a must. The fly should come almost to the ground on all sides. If there's an open side at the door, the fly needs to have a pretty good awning/overhang so rain doesn't easily drip/blow onto the tent itself. Most good tents have taped/sealed seams from the factory but I usually use SeamGrip on floor corner stitching to keep the holes made by the threads from getting enlarged by stress/age. A footprint and/or tarp under the tent can help keep water out from under then tent floor. These MUST be smaller than the perimeter of the tent floor so any water shedding off the tent/fly walls doesn't run onto the tarp/footprint and then between it and the tent floor. Depending on the temperatures you camp in, you might look for tents that have vents in the rain fly. There are even some tents that have zippers in the tent that provide access to the rain fly vents from inside. If it's raining out and the tent gets steamy (or cold), you can open or close the vents without having to go out in the mud/rain. So I'd recommend getting a new tent: no tarps to try to hang and make sure they don't collect water, no Easy-Ups to lug around, just a good tent/fly/footprint combo that does the job right all by themselves.

I own several pieces of gear from TNF. I would not hesitate to return it. It WILL get bigger with use. Years ago I tried to fix a similar problem with needle and thread. The patch held but the mesh tore around it. You have simply purchased a tent that wasnt inspected well enough. (probably made first thing on Monday or the last tent of the work week:/) Send it back. They'll take it,no questions asked.