Hi Gordon @sairfingers
You made me think hard, where do I know that plant from with the bumblebee on it, I thought yesterday and the day before…
Well it turns out that I have 4 meters in the front garden as a hedge … the flat screen flower variant and also some small variants in the back garden but they
should soon start to bloom … the hedge is almost finished blooming but still fresh flowers here and there and with a bumblebee here and there too.
Nice hedge - and anyway, it’s always a treat to come here and see nice photos!
I think that Gordon’s plant is a different one, though looks basically similar. I think that Gordon @sairfingers - your plant can be found around here quite a lot and grows easily. Some imported plants even become a plague in the wild, pushing the others away.
Haha, I wanted to reply here rather than in Paul’s thread… I feel alike with herding. LIke the others say, it’s a part of being human and can be fun if done in a positive mood, but too often people behave strange in herds, reason is often lacking. Maybe I’m especially sensitive as we treated the subject a lot in school here and generally in Germany when WW2 wasn’t so very far away.
Just - for that zebra crossing - I was tempted to take a photo too - hadn’t I been all by myself, just to send this to one or two friends home which I knew were huge Beatles fans too to make some connection with them again. Hopefully without having cars to stop and better with some Beetle in the background.
We are only as old as we feel…
In German the meaning of “old” doesn’t necessarily mean “old in years” it can have a more subtle meaning in the sense of “experienced” or if somebody is doing something regularly… I don’t know if it comes over .
Nice Andrea @Helen0609
and from an angle that I have no memory of except the Giro D’Italia on television , don’t hold back if you still have a nice one from the lake, swimming sailing or on a kite or… playing guitar
What a great photo of that (in dutch Parelmoer vlinder) butterfly and of a species that I had to look up because we don’t have it here in the Netherlands
Thanks
Hi Dominique @domi7
Thank you ,that hedge was moved from our balcony edge where there were 9 divided into 3 boxes of 60 cm each 10 years ago…
About the same species of Gordon @sairfingers and mine , wiki gives me this answer…and correct me if it’s wrong… Spiraea japonica is mine …swamp spirea that from France are both not Filipendula rubra ? (I see that the translation may be playing tricks on me)… ,Spirea Astilbe shrubs is what I have in the backyard … Oooo there is a lot to read is see now
I have done my own strange things in a group, I regularly speak to old athletic trainers (2 are friends) and sometimes some old teachers on the terrace… Ooooo they still wake up screaming sometimes…
Maybe that’s why I never want to walk in groups again/be anything other than this safe environment, but that also took a lot of adjustment and time and even now it sometimes feels like I’m standing naked in front of the class
Seeing as this appears to be the main ‘gardening thread’, I shall share that I took a complete day off guitar/self-centred activities to travel to one of my wife’s workplaces and refurbish two old picnic tables I picked up from a pub (put new legs & braces on), and help dig up three flowerbeds for the mental health trainees and staff. Hard work, but I met some lovely people and expect payback in this life or the next…
Are you sure that’s a flower bed that you dug in the last photo and you haven’t buried something else? The last thing we want is Rogier’s gardening log to be seized as evidence
Not sure if I understand you correctly… about seeing from us?
Regarding guitar videos… every now and then, I am recording videos of songs, but they’re never good enough to put in my yet to make learning log
On the plants… it’s been so many years I learned a bit about plants, don’t remember a lot, to be honest! But the leaves looked quite different and Gordon’s reminded me those plants we have here a lot while yours didn’t.
And you watch the Giro? So I’m not the only guitar player who likes bicycle racing!
Was Sam Marlowe artistic? I’ll have to rewatch those. I mainly remember when in the morning he found he was out of coffee and took yesterday’s already used ground coffee powder out of the dustbin to make him a coffee again, haha…
It’s taken from the east side of the lake, south of Malcesine, a magical place called Val did Sogno (Valley of dreams). I had gazillions of pictures, but after Brian’s pictures of his charity efforts, I can’t show up with photos of the places of laziness and chilling. @Socio Same thought here . Or is that the place where he buried his dreams to ever play in the Royal Albert Hall?
Brian @brianlarsen , they are 6 feet deep ?,
I’m afraid everyone thinks the same
We haven’t seen anyone for a while who lives in that region and regularly spoke to Brian brutally…
Okay, enough macabre thoughts my wife and I had just before breakfast (yes, she got herself another week off )
Good job and I’m proud of you, planting plants makes a difference
Too late James Too late, once on the internet, always on the internet
Because Brian occasionally posts photos from in and around his house, or these photos and Andrea etc etc, I got a lot of nice things from “you”, ‘the person behind the guitar’, so to speak.
I’m going into the garden in a moment to take 2 photos…
Apart from some athletics, that’s pretty much the only thing I watch from sport. When I was in a very bad state 6 years ago, I subsequently had a completely different life and I was a bit addicted to watching sports, but this is the only thing left, partly because of the wonderful peace and quiet throughout the day when the Giro or the Tour de France or the Classics start up, with often the tension at the end… partly because of the beautiful views along the way.
Yes, it must be the age, I have been there countless times, I immediately recognize the name, we often went from there to the other side and a little later to Limone Sul Garda and then again … well, I forgot that too … I visit 4 to 5 places a day if I remember correctly, nice, I get all kinds of memories now that I am typing this, thank you very much for that …
Is there still that eternal spider exhibition in Riva ? I scared several girl friends there, at least 5 of them ( not all where "kiss friends …how do you write something like that??? )
the last one she just thought they where beautiful, so I think I’m still with her after almost 28 years.
So, day 10 is about to start with my Canon in D and 1:40 of the 2:40 is in my head, just a little while and the thermometer will indicate above 30c and then the practice will stop again, but for now an hour of playing in a small moment,
A test from last week not yet intended for the Lick and riff actually, so in the LL …but I post this for esspecialy you now …and everyone for those good old days
Uuuuuuh! Thanks so much, Rogier! That sounds great! So cool! What a nice sound for my little lunch break! That’s giving me some energy for the afternoon now and reminds me, I should start learning some nice licks too and many of those !
I don’t know, to be honest.
Hey Romeo,…no details please !
And you have picked the right one! Good choice, you needed to kiss the to get the princess .!
Same here Rogier, I love the helicopter shots. I’ve seen the ‘Tour’ several times in France if we happen to be near one of the towns on the route. It’s all over in a flash. First the caravan with the dolly birds throwing out mini cheeses etc, then you hear the helicopters, then the commentary, then the peloton appears and whoosh it’s all over.
… the flat screen flower variant and also some small variants in the back garden but they
… the hedge is almost finished blooming but still fresh flowers here and there and with a bumblebee here and there too.
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We are only as old as we feel…
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The last thing we want is Rogier’s gardening log to be seized as evidence 
Brian 
…how do you write something like that??? 
… Don`t look at that weird English man 
and many of those 
