The name of this display is called ‘The Feast of St. Joseph’
I found many more photos here.
Succulent container display, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
This really stood out to me and I know Zoey from Perennial Passion likes container gardens. I’ll have to look closer to see what everything is.
I did join the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society this morning-actually it’s a ‘dual’ one and for a year’s membership, we got two free flower show tickets ($26 each!). We were all dressed and ready to go at 10:30 (the daylight savings messed us up) and Brian couldn’t get a hold of his dad. He tried for an hour and the answering machine kept coming on. So Brian didn’t get to go to the show and Sean and I decided to at least go to my mom’s and wait to see what was going on. Here he was sound asleep in his bed, the phone was in the other room, the tv was blasting downstairs and the stove was left on. Brian had to physically shake him to wake him up! He said he’s always been a sound sleeper, but I’d say the phone must have rang 100s of times and he didn’t hear it! The next room isn’t that far away. We thought he had fallen down.
We took my mom again (she had gone with my brother Don on Thursday) and Sean got the student price. My membership and tickets were waiting for me at the booth in the convention center. I thought for sure I’d have to wait to use them next year as it said I had to give them 24 hours to process. Before we went into the show, we ate lunch in the Reading Terminal Market-such a bustling places with lots of sights and sounds. I will share a few photos, but need to upload over 100 on Flickr during the upcoming week.
Mom and me in front of an awesome exhibit mainly with orchids in test tubes:
This is a neat one:
The show had an Italian theme and there was lots of gorgeous statuary:
I can’t forget Sean!
And this is one of the miniature shadow boxes-all the tiny plants have to be real!:
My brother Don was at my mom’s and he treated us to a nice dinner up in our hometown. It turned out to be an adventurous day for sure!
I made a video too and will edit that sometime this week too-all the water features are on it plus a silly son!
And the less than $2 price tag wasn’t bad either. More shots on the right.
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Here’s the rug my father-in-law gave us last week. Cosmo loves it!
And my amaryllis has 4 blooms on it now! I was wondering what to do with the bulbs later on…I know they need to rest, but any secrets to getting them to rebloom or is it a big process? I should ask the people at Longwood. Speaking of Longwood, I think I’m skipping 20 minutes in the cold for the ice skating. I was waiting for Sean to get back to school and he did about 4:20. He just sounds so thrilled with being there. I had a blah day-blasted hormones!
This is on the center of my dining room table. I’m still packing away Christmas stuff, so when I get that cleaned up, I’ll show you the entire table! : )
Sean and I tried again at Longwood Gardens and practically had the entire place to ourselves! Yeah. I think I took at least 200 photos and narrowed it down to 175, which I will upload to Flickr. The gardens are using LED lights, so all the wrapped trees and hand fashioned trees look brighter. I really need to see how people are getting tri-pods in there, that would make a difference. I’ll share a few shots, first of the face I’ll be missing in a few days:
Taken through a window in the orchid room. Sean treated me to dinner in the ‘fancy’ restaurant at Longwood. He had pasta with olive, mushrooms and capers and I had Citrus grilled chicken with white beans and spinach. I treated him to dessert in the cafe section. I had chocolate chip cake and he had a creme brulee type of cheese cake.
The water in this area was decorated with cranberries!
A natural themed tree with white and gold lights. I’d like a tree like this next year.
A sampler from 1802 found in the DuPont House.
Thanks Mr. DuPont for Longwood Gardens!
Here is the slideshow from today. I only got up to 60 uploads. The above photos are the unedited versions of what will be on there. Enjoy!
Welcome to the eighth (full) edition of ‘I recommend’. As the name implies, this is a share to recommend just about anything you like or have tried. It can be a book, drink, food, movie, music CD-anything. Mister Linky will open to another page (that’s how it works on WordPress). Please add your link there and don’t forget to leave me a comment here.
Amaryllis blooming, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
During the winter, many of us gardeners miss the joy in seeing their outdoor flower gardens blooming and need some kind of cheery ‘fix’. I try and save some of my garden flowers, but many have gone kaput by January or February. I recommend forcing bulbs such as the amaryllis I have pictured. Brian gave me this for my November birthday and I saw that it had opened over the weekend.
I also love African violets.
They come in all colors from white to the darkest purple. Their leaves can be variegated too. They put up with a lot of neglect most of the time. I keep a bottle of AV plant food handy when I remember to water them and they perk up and give me a massive show of blooms.
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So I finally got around to reading Philadelphia magazine’s 1oo year anniversary issue. Since I’ve lived around this city for almost half that, I was interested to read their top 100 things that made Philly stand out. Since you probably don’t have a copy of it, #1 was Philly cheesesteaks. I was curious to know if my readers have had one? I make them once in a while and found some good steak meat that wasn’t a Minute Steak or Steak-ums-more flavor, a little more money. Gee, I think I want one soon! My tummy is definitely better.
It’s your turn:
Want to play along? Kelli over at ‘There is no place like home’ is hosting a meme. You take your first blog sentence for each month of 2008 and add a favorite photo from that month too. Be aware that most of my ‘first’ sentences have nothing to do with the photos. :O)
January-
That’s my life for the last few days.(I had been sick and so had Brian)
February-
Let’s start off February with a fun event thanks to Lisa/Oceandreamer’s 2nd time around hosting it.(One World, One Heart blog giveaways)
March-
This is my mom’s birthday last year and my youngest brother is giving her the cupcakes that I made to blow out the candles.(for a Photo Hunt)
April-
It’s 70 degrees outside!!! I’m inside and wearing a sweater though.
May-
Thanks to Scrappy Jessi for hosting this fun event.(showing our childhood toys)
June-
Like I did last night!
July-
I really did see a camel! (a place on our road had several exotic pets or boarders)
Strasberg, PA 7-30-08, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
August-
Today I’m sharing my baby book.
September-
I can’t believe it’s September already!
October-
….the cataracts are gone! Well, that may be so for my mom in a few hours.(My mom had both her eyes done, and one got an infection, so she had to have a third operation!)
Celebrating after 28 yrs!, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
November-
This is from the Philadelphia Flower Show 2006.(We try to go every year since I am so snap happy)
Grant Park and a new beginning!, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
December-
I just realized that I was pretty much on the go for over a week, since my birthday on the 19th.
Since both Brian and Sean are home, I do indeed have a full house until they go back to work and school. Bri hasn’t been feeling good-tummy issues. I gave him an Equalactin today, so I hope that settles it down.
Sean and I are going to my hometown and I’m getting my hair done and doing a little visiting.
Here’s a few photos I took of a 99¢ bouquet I bought last night. Gotta love bargains like this. I love the lime green, burgundy and white:
I was looking to change my blog theme, but they only had this 3 column design. I decided to take the photo of me and the graphic off the header to clean it up a bit instead.
We are hoping to do a few day trips over the next week.
Welcome to the seventh edition of ‘I recommend’. As the name implies, this is a share to recommend just about anything you like or have tried. It can be a book, drink, food, movie, music CD-anything. Mister Linky will open to another page (that’s how it works on WordPress). Please add your link there and don’t forget to leave me a comment here.
Fun stuff!
Ok, so you are plum tuckered out and need a break. What do you do? I like to play on the internet. My brother sent me a link to this site and I could make flowers all day. I bet you could print them out and make some purdy cards too-
I call this Dahlia.
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This is a fun place called Txt2pic
They give you images that you add words too. I think LL Cool J said something like this when he was on Rachael Ray (but he said ‘the 40s’):
I’ll be back to add more links as I go through my bookmarks through the day.
It’s your turn:
Collages & Creative Goodness 