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Post by snowmom on Oct 26, 2015 7:40:57 GMT -5
I have gotten interested in the old apple trees of this area. Almost all old farm settlements had apple trees, even the light house grounds almost always included apples. Many of the original trees are still standing. I went on an apple tree safari the past few weeks, and collected some apple tree images. one in particular fascinates me. I am hoping to track down the name of it. It is possible that this tree is a sport. I plan to contact the owners of this tree to get permission to take a few cuttings so I can have a tree like this in my yard. The fruit is shaped almost like quince and tastes sweet and very spicy, has a flavor between quince and pear. It deserves to be propagated.
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Post by snowmom on Oct 25, 2015 7:16:04 GMT -5
neat! I like the second one best as well.
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Post by snowmom on Oct 25, 2015 5:52:58 GMT -5
chalcedony bots! very pretty!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 25, 2015 5:47:41 GMT -5
welcome! retirement has given many of us opportunities like that... me too! I look forward to seeing posts of the things you work with there.
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Post by snowmom on Oct 22, 2015 15:43:10 GMT -5
cleverly thought out and executed... love that!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 22, 2015 6:27:15 GMT -5
some sort of chrysocolla on copper rich matrix?
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Post by snowmom on Oct 22, 2015 6:10:28 GMT -5
second egg made me go "OOOOOOOOH" those are all beautiful!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 22, 2015 5:22:11 GMT -5
very pretty!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 21, 2015 5:09:50 GMT -5
so sorry to hear this. a loss for the whole forum community.
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Post by snowmom on Oct 20, 2015 14:56:43 GMT -5
I can't see a single one, but I sure want to! using a web host such as photo bucket?
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Post by snowmom on Oct 20, 2015 7:59:04 GMT -5
sweet!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 19, 2015 7:47:30 GMT -5
what a wonderful thing- may you all bring each other joy and peace, laughter, comfort, and so much more as you go through life together. This is just so beautiful... Congratulations to all of you!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 19, 2015 7:39:32 GMT -5
innovative design, beautiful stone. love it!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 16, 2015 16:46:18 GMT -5
hope you figure it out. very curious!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 16, 2015 5:59:49 GMT -5
I've got aquarium bottoms full of tumbles, glass containers on window sills, a wide tray full on my coffee table, candy dishes, bowls, baskets. thrift stores will have bargains on glassware frequently. Like bob I haunt garage sales, rummage sales, flea markets. Always in the back of the mind is a small glass container to put on a windowsill ( my terrariums and house plants all have rocks in them too) I look for tall and narrow rectangular glass vases, they fit on window sills and really let the light through for the translucent tumbles to shine. I just purchased a bird house kit. Guess what I will cover the walls of it with?
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Post by snowmom on Oct 16, 2015 5:34:57 GMT -5
wow, never judge a rock by its cover. beautiful!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 16, 2015 5:31:21 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Oct 16, 2015 5:23:28 GMT -5
When I lived in Chicago (in another life), I learned about 'fly dumping'. If you had something big like a dresser or an old mattress, sofa, etc that the regular trash guys wouldn't take, you loaded it in the back of your buddy's van or pickup and sent it flying as you drove down the freeway at 60 MPH in the wee morning hours. That was before cell phones and street cams. I expect they still do it though.
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Post by snowmom on Oct 16, 2015 5:15:00 GMT -5
Didn't anybody learn anything from Alice's Restaurant? Seriously, there are a couple places here that are used for dumping: furniture, yard waste, deer bones and other stuff left from the hunt, piles of bags of trash... One is an abandoned lumber road, might be the property owner who has done that one. It seems to be mostly construction related stuff that has been dumped. One of these places is a road which was turned into a nature trail. Gives the property owners on that road the fits, having to clean up and pay to have all the stuff hauled. It would make me mighty angry too. They have caught somebody a couple of times. One guy was even taking money to haul trash away from peoples yards and houses and leaving it there. Trash is a problem everywhere. It is not uncommon to find old private property trash dumps, a lot of times in an old gravel pit. Most people would fill a privy hole with trash when they moved the privy to a new spot. That is how everybody used to get rid of their unwanted stuff. Today it is archeological. I don't mind seeing a discrete dump on private property. People here used sink holes as trash dumps for years, what else was it good for, and why waste scarce farmland for your trash dump ? Revenge cases a whole 'nother thing. People problems are the worst kinds of problems there are.
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Post by snowmom on Oct 16, 2015 4:54:16 GMT -5
Ed, mr.mohs have you read the series of books by Oliver Sacks, the neurologist. He wrote about some of his client's cases, some of them are astounding. One of the cases solved a lifelong mystery for me, why my mom was the way she was. She had one of the neurological conditions he described. Realizing she was brain damaged at birth and had this rare condition, I was able to let go of loads of bitterness and put a lot of things from the past into its proper perspective. Insight good, peace better. I owe Oliver Sacks bigtime. I'm going to search out your book, too. captbob shades of 1984 in the technological era. Gives me shivers.
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