Let's Begin Again...Rose Seasonal Thread
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Comments (43)June, please don't forget to tell us who you think Marlena was calling when she asked Jacob to wish her luck. I finally located the passage, but I had lost the context so I had to back up and reread that chapter. It didn't help me, thus I'm thinking it must allude to something even further back that didn't register with me -- unless it was, as Lydia says, someone she could contact about getting a job with Ringling Bros. Vee, re redlighting, that act of throwing nonproductive or unwanted people off the train: The word itself definitely came from circus jargon. I had to look it up to make sure. (Does anyone else think Gruen could/should have provided a glossary?) I don't know if it was done in quite so dramatic a way as Gruen describes; the sites I went to said it was done mainly when the train was going slowly, before it got up to full speed -- the people hit the ground, perhaps with a hard landing, but most were able to get up unhurt (or with minor injuries), yet there was no way they could catch up with the train and get aboard again. If bodies of maimed or dead people were littering either sides of the tracks or under the trestles, surely there would have been some questions asked by the folk who found the bodies and authorities would have been alerted. I know it was the Depression and there were things that often went unreported, but if it happened with great enough frequency, there would have been some sort of outcry -- people were people during the Depression, too, and they all weren't cowed by circumstance. My father, as a teenager in the early 1930s, did some railriding. He and his buddies would hitchhike to Chicago, then hop a train to New Orleans and then hop another for the return to Chicago. (From New Orleans, he made it to Los Angeles and on to Seattle before retracing.) They could do it legally in an empty freight car for a penny a mile, but of course many didn't have the funds. The legals would hide the illegals under clothes and blankets, but the "tosser" often managed to find them and, true to his job title, he tossed them off the train, physically. According to daddy, he was tossed off a few times himself. Daddy referred to it as redlighting, so the circus phrase was in the vernacular at the time. I didn't get sappy about the animals in Gruen's story as much as I did about Camel and Walter being thrown off the train while it was on the trestle. Maybe such things happened, maybe they didn't -- I'll allow Gruen license, anyway, although I wonder why she thought it was necessary to kill them off. But that poor little dog, Queenie, without Walter... And what makes it particularly affecting to me was the earlier scene when Queenie was lost and Walter would have missed the train to look for her, if Jacob hadn't physically thrown Walter onto the moving train. I hate being manipulated by a writer with poignant animal scenes, but I have to admit Gruen pulled a good 'un on me....See MoreLet the 2017 clearance deals begin
Comments (53)Local $$$ nursery has a progressive sale in October to this weekend. Starts at 60% off, goes to 90%. At 70% off their prices become mostly a good deal. It's like a game going every fall. First day I just go an make a list, unless I see something I've been wanting. I research things then go back. If they have a lot of something I may wait til almost the end. It's a game to me. Plus, what they still have in stock varies wildly from year to year. First few years, I scored a good number of miniature hostas. This year, almost sold out of minis before I arrived for 60% off. Last year, large hostas, pulmonarias and single peonies were my favorite scores. Lots of hydrangea choices but I couldn't choose one. This year, all pulmonarias and peonies were sold out before the sale. Ditto hydrangeas. I have to consider that that, too, is part of the game....See MoreLet the blooms begin (HIBISCUS 2019)
Comments (9)I didn’t see this when you first posted the thread.... Those big white ones always look so great! I’ve posted pictures on other threads of the pink ones here that have been in bloom since late July. A couple of the red ones have flowers open in the past few days - they are always later to bloom and are a week or so away from their peak. ‘Hibiscus season’ is always a wonderful time in the garden (although it definitely means summer is starting to wind down...!) Still hot and humid here in the day-time but we’re starting to get some cooler nights too....See MoreRoses Love Sunshine Seasonal Thread
Comments (1251)Hi Sara Ann, it's good to have you post and show us some of your lovely roses--Belinda's Dream is just stunning. I think lots of us have had better rose years than 2022, including me. It was our hottest year on record, yet we still managed to have a freak snowstorm in May, the first one since 1964. Julias when splat during that storm. I wish you the best rose year in 2023 and a mild winter. And good health to all of us and our families. Please post again. Magpie, I love your artistic rose arrangement. As you know, I love pale colors that contrast with dark purples. Yum. Love your Strawberry Hill photos. I do like roses with changeable colors. Kitty, all those luscious cherries you'll be growing will just be one more reason for us to show up on your doorstep next year, looking for cherry pie. Just be sure to net the pie cherries, or birds will get the future pies. I like the pretty lavender-purple flowers of Victoria, and I hope Maypop gets lots of water from her human mom. Your beautiful bouquet is exquisite and so fresh looking. Berrypie, what a lovely little Strawberry Baby. Jim, your park photo is amazing. You had perfect timing to take the photo just when the reflection was at its peak. I think you should frame that pic for your living room. Kristine, all your roses look great--what a nice autumn reward--but Daybreaker is outstanding. Perfection in coloring. I remember when I wanted that rose so badly, and for some reason never got it. I still want it, especially after seeing yours! Seaside, oh, my, that Huddersfield Choral Society is a breathtaking rose. What color. All your roses look great and I'll bet you have lots of good rose season left, you lucky thing. Carol, thanks for starting the new thread, which I'll look at now. Loved reading about your Thanksgiving feast. Diane...See MoreDiane Brakefield
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