THANK YOU to all my forum friends for your nice comments. Marg...yes that is a japanese maple, one of the laceleafs. I have two in that bed. I actually made the bed first, then planted the maples. I have other japanese maples around the property (another of my plant addictions, of which I have many). I actually make raised beds because the ground is so full of rocks and roots and it's impossible to plant. My whole property was forest when I moved here. Rita... I have unearthed probably thousands of rocks over the past few years. New Hampshire is named the 'Granite State' for a reason....LOL. I am running out of rocks so now I am getting them from my father's property miles away but I don't have a truck so I gather a few everytime I visit my dad. My husband isn't too crazy about the car always being dirty from the dug-up rocks...Haha. Edward & Ellie...Sorry, I don't know the name of any of my peonies. I have never bought any since over the years people have shared them with me, the same with the iris and many of my perennials. I have a lot of pass-along plants started from divisions. Folks don't usually give me a name so maybe they don't know either? I did see one at Lowe's the other day that looked just like my white one, but I didn't check to see the name. Sorry I'm no help. Missylin...I am pretty sure that peonies are colder-zone plants but I don't know how warm a climate they can tolerate. It seems everyone around here grows peonies and they do very well so they must like the cold. The same is true for tulips, lilacs, rhododendrons, spruce trees, birch trees, etc. which flourish here. (There has to be some positives to living where its really cold, right?). We do have glorious summers but it is so short-lived. Julia...yes we are 'rock-miners'...teehee. That is a very good word for it! I am told that I have not only a plant addiction, but a rock addiction. I can't stop making rock beds and taking over the lawn and entire property with rock garden beds. I figure, the rocks are there and they are free. And digging them up keeps me in shape! THANK YOU, Nancy, Kay, Nat, Brittie and Jean! Christine, you know exactly what I'm talking about having lived in Connecticut! You simply cannot put a spade in the ground without hitting ROCKS so raised beds are the only way to go. Celeste

I don't know if this helps but, I have cherry cabinets and I have BM Flowering Herbs in my kitchen which is a nice sage green and BM Baby Turtle in adjacent FM one shade darker on paint strip not quite an olive but definitely darker.

My very first quilts were actually made when I was quite young. We were quite poor as my husband was finishing up his degree and I had to quit my job when I got pregnant. (Yes, gals, those of us over fifty remember those days when there wasn't any such thing as job security for pregnancies). I made a lot of my baby's layette and made what would be called a postage stamp quilt for him. I was so totally clueless then, and there wasn't an internet to look up how to do it, so I winged it. Each square was about and inch square, lol. I didn't figure out one could do strips and then cut them and make it easier. So..........you can picture the rest. Then when that was finished, I started an embroidered animal quilt. Back then there were blocks all dime stores carried, with the pattern on them and you did the embroidery and pieced it. I can tell you this much, I got started on it before my son was born, and finished it in time to give it to my first grandson. rofl!!!! Did I set the record or what? I put quilting away after that until I got over the trauma of it. I'll look around for some pics. Likely they'll be of the big quilts in progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNdnQZGoqo This looks similar. I have no means of magnification yet so I can't say for sure. If I did, I wouldn't be here lol. I just want a "this is what typically exists" type answer.