Yep I was really happy to find them Luna, it was one of those things you just grab it and say this is going home with me I don't care if it is full price, and then they were both on sale which made it even sweeter. Coloredthumb I got mine at the Family Dollar Store. I didn't even know they had them at the Everythings a Dollar Store! A dollar a piece regular price and six different kinds! I'd have had to get them too. That's why I try to stay out of there, lol. Thanks Cait, that's a wild rose growing over them and some pretty but very invasive weeds around the bottom. I let them grow for a while and have to tear them out before they take over the block. I just set them there til I could find a permanant spot and they made such a nice picture with the pedestal and all I just had to had to share. I'm glad everyone enjoyed them.

Good god, the woman just won a Nobel Prize. Thank goodness she spends her time writing and not obsessing about remodeling a kitchen! Consider how many hours, days, weeks, and months it takes to re-do a kitchen....especially if we treat every decision as if our very lives depend upon it. Our lives really do not depend upon our countertops and outlet covers. Hers is a life well spent, and her vocation has been a gift to the world. I am very glad this picture was posted. It reminds me why my kitchen isn't perfect. I really preferred to be out in the garden to spending my days at Home Depot and my nights on-line. When I got home from work, I really needed to be in the garden solving other kinds of problems: weeds more than windows, for instance. It provided me with solace and a kind of beauty more lasting and rewarding than any part of the kitchen I have now. My kitchen is handsome, but not perfect. All these years gardening taught me gardens are never finished, I don't have control over every thing that happens, beauty changes, and nothing lasts. I suspect some of this knowledge led to discovering that I simply didn't have the energy or interest needed to get that "perfect" kitchen. I didn't mean to make this all about me. But that picture of a normal kitchen and that beautiful slightly disheveled woman on this particular GW forum is "food for thought." Thanks again,Rosie. This was the best part of a long day. This post was edited by idabean on Fri, Oct 11, 13 at 23:38

We use Amazon a lot and sadly never knew about it, but we do now, thanks to you! We've benefited from an organization listed for my husband's illness and I'm really pleased that now we will be able to give back. I've also shared it with all the members in my family so they will as well.

There are no daffodils in the ditch planting as I tried to only plant bulbs with small foliage that would disappear quickly. I do have a few narcissuses in other places in the garden but not many - a few of the ‘Poet’s narcissus’ I remember from my grandmother/great-grandmother’s garden and a few of the dwarf white ones (Thalia?). I really don’t have any big plantings of bulbs - just small quantities spread out through the garden that manage to produce enough of a feel of quite a few bulbs in spring without having enough in one place to make dead foliage a big unsightly problem when they’re finished blooming!