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That's a great idea. I had hundreds of photos posted here on the gardening forum, but the editor deleted them, so I switched to water gardening. I used to be the water gardening editor and there is no replacement, so I figured I would be OK here.
Glad you are enjoying the photos. I have thousands more. Doing a collaboration could be fun.

OK - I can't remember which flowers I mentioned in my Short Story - I will look it up today! - and maybe you will have some shots of them. Then I will post the whole thing on my Editor page - wouldn't that be pretty??

Don't forget to drop by my forum/Short Stories site!
Thanks, pondlady

(You will see there that I live on the Wild Moors of England by a rocky rushing river - in the Summer I write there surrounded by Lime dragonflies and Electric blue damselflies - we are both lucky aren't we? Such beauty!!

I envy you where you live. Unfortunately we live in Katrina country and have been trying to recover from losing our house and all else. We try our best to do our recovering by surrounding ourselves with the beauty of flowers.
I dropped by your editor's page yesterday. Love your work. There are grandchildren running around here occasionally who will enjoy your stories.

I dropped you a note re Lulu. Hope I hear back.



My camellia in my front yard is in bloom. I am thrilled even if it is weeks early.
Do you have winter bloomers. Share them with us.

Here u r Jan, didn't know where u went lol. thanks for the picture of the silkworm cocoon. never saw one. I have to get out of the house more ;o) your picture are all so beautiful would love to blow then up and hang them on the wall.

thanks jan -I found my garden story - the flowers were tulips and pansies if you have them - i saw a nice zinnia one on gumbo too - i saw a post about you going - i hope thats not so - didnt occur to me you might have lost garden in New Orleans - how terrible - hope the grandchildren like my story about my mischief in the garden when i was little - my kids love to hear those stories!

I had to leave the gardening forum, Sky, so I made my own forum over here where I used to be.

Siobhain, I have pansies, but no tulips. It is too hot here in New Orleans for them. I have a friend Oz who has many tulip photos tho, so I am sure she can help you.

We did indeed lose our garden in Katrina...our house too. But we are in another house now and are recovering slowly.

We will be leaving this part of the world, but have not picked out our retirement spot yet. I can tell you that no hurricanes will visit wherever it is.

Thank you so much Jan, I have picked out a few lovely ones....... watch out for them in my story in the next few days - you could even make a little book if you print it off and add in some grandchildren photos!!

Hey, would you like me to write a personalised short story just for them, with your own pics, if you suggest family garden anecdote? You could do cover,pics etc, as an e-book? Maybe one where the Mischief-making storm comes to spoil the garden, but doesn't win cos it all gets replanted? Just an idea!!

I have been writing short stories for the g'kids since the first one was born 11 years ago. They love the ones with their names in them and look forward to adding another book to their collections each birthday. We are now starting to talk about boys (eek) in the stories for the 11 yo.

Do you have grandchildren stories to tell. We would love to hear them.