Happy New Week all.
Lindybird - what lovely peonies! Is one of them called "Bowl of Beauty"? Here is a picture of one of my new Irises, I bought several new ones two years ago and this is the first one to flower. The others are all about to flower also.
Lindybird - How exciting to hear about a new nest in Cumbria, did they say whereabouts in Cumbria?
LINDY/RITA lovely peonies and iris.. Trouble I always find with peonies, they hardly last any time before they drop their petals...... Great to hear of a new Osp nest in Cumbria.
Off soon to the hairdresser for a wet cut and to have my eyebrows tinted!!!! I have very fair eyebrows and pencilled them in but a few weeks ago decided to have them tinted. I was pleased with the result, hence having them done again.
This was posted by a friend. It isn't the best of pics, but we used to loved seeing these puffins at Sumburgh when we used to live in Shetland.
Rita: I am at a loss, as I saw the news report this morning about a new osprey nest being found, and even saw them trying to photograph it from a distance, as they were at great pains not to disturb the birds. But I missed the very beginning of the report, where they said where it was (roughly, of course). Now in spite of two or three internet searches, I cant find there is any reference to this!! But I guess I will find out sooner or later.
Love your beautiful irises: what a colour! Here are some of mine, previously :
I can't name the peonies as they were planted by my mother, who is no longer with us. (both the photos I posted earlier are of the same plant) I have another plant which has not flowered this year.
dibnlib: Hope your eyebrows are now looking good! I had mine dyed a couple of times, and it is effective - however, I found that the sun could fade them very quickly, even though I have a blonde not a brown or black effect. My own are fair, with a lot of white & grey in them now, and they totally disappear without the help of a bit of eyebrow pencil. Not a good look - so I carry an eyebrow pencil in every bag I have LOL!
Love the puffins!!
Morning all:
Brenda: Thanks for letting us know Margo is having pc problems.
Lindybird: A new osprey nest? That's really good. Those peonies are wonderful. I can never get over how much beauty nature produces from such tiny seeds.
dibnlib: I've solved the problem of short-lived peonies - I have two really nicely made silk ones in an arrangement with some other silk flowers I got on sale in a corner by the fireplace (the flowers, not the sale)! Isn't there an island called Puffin Island (or was it a book)? No issues with eyebrows here; mine have always been dark and alarmingly long at times, but at least they've never met in the middle.
Rita: Those lilies were worth waiting for.
Diane: What an exotic state flower. California has the golden poppy, which is really only impressive in spring (and after a rainy winter) when the hillsides are alive with great swaths of gold. I see that the zinnia was your state flower until 1957 and the tulip tree is your state tree (ours is the Redwood).
Today is election day (mid-term elections). I voted by mail and OH is off voting now. I think I've totally spoiled Peanut (guinea pig); he gets carrots and yummy lettuce all the time and leaps up onto his "furniture" every time I go by, all excited. Hope he doesn't have withdrawal symptoms when he gets home, even though daughter does keep him in carrots. One of our cars has to get its bi-annual smog certificate before we can renew the registration, so that's another trip today. Take care all.
Hi Lindybird, Have been doing some catching up, and I did see the osprey item yesterday. It is at a Cumbria Wildlife Trust site called Foulshaw Moss, on the Kent estuary, at the top of Morecambe Bay. They have been removing trees and restoring a wetland habitat there. I went for the first time a couple of weeks ago to see the nest, it is a distant view from a boardwalk across the marsh. There were no staff at the time but may be there will be some now it has been more publicised.
Foulshaw Moss blog