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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 26 Aug 2018, 18:24

Today in Part one, the last week of July sees a trip to the vet and, before that, a dip into the Night Garden. It's still hot

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Rising over the Rookery

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Full Face

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Dreamland

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Speed Freak
Scrap snorts the scene at 30mph

Two views from the vet's car park
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Devon Generic

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Dry

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Rustle

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 26 Aug 2018, 18:26

Part Two
The Print Scans archive presents the usual gallimaufry

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Hipster
Paul Argles/Crocker in his house in Barnet in the early noughties. If anyone knows the current whereabouts and/or
circumstances of this man, last heard of six years ago in Wisbech, please let me know. I miss him

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Rumble
Toots and me on a visit to Brighton, seeing as that's Bill's flat in the background: 1985?

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Ball Blind Bluebottles
Trip room, Oldland, early this century

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Carnivali

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Hockneyed
Swimming Pool, Sid Valley, Noughties

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Foreshore
Lots of terracotta in the Thames at Blackfriars, 2002

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Morning Mist
South Bank of the Thames, 2002

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 27 Aug 2018, 17:21

The Archive stuff in Part One today is from a scanned transparencies folder and, for once, it's all easily dateable to the period from mid-1989 to mid-1990 when I lived in Belsize Road, in a top-floor flat above Bisque, a bespoke radiator shop owned by Chip's dapper plumber friend, Geoff, and his jug-eared Irish partner, Johnny Gordon.

First, more of my new lamp. I think you can count me pleased with it...

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Glassy

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Sort-of Selfie (Arm and One Eye) with New Lamp

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Kilburn Xmas
December 1989 fo shizzle

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The Comforts of Home
The Mansions, whence I had moved, was a lot bigger than the flat above the shop

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Thrift Shop Scores
Across the way

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Passing Thoughts

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Ranunculus

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 27 Aug 2018, 17:22

Part Two
from a month ago, in the usual places

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Long Ago and Far Away

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Wheatopolis

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Full On
Tigridia

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Stars and Stripes
Zonal pelargoniums and petunias

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Flourish

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Friday Drinks
Our across the street neighbours, Roy and Jean, and Jo

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Bubbles

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Sparkle

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 28 Aug 2018, 19:18

Part one, last days of July

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Flurry

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You May Be White, But It's Not a Cabbage
Cabbage white butterfly on Dahlia

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Here Be Badgers
An ancient sett in the Long Plantation

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Neither Waving Nor Drowning

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Acieeeed
Acidanthera showing out

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Oriental
Two views of a showy lily

Tomorrow, the last from July
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 28 Aug 2018, 19:18

Part Two
Archive fun – well, possibly mild amusement – from the print scans folder

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Glum
My Dad in his teens, late 1930s, Tottenham

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Colourways

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Schoolboys
River Thames, 2002

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Persian Mirror
Trip room, 1990s

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Crispy
One Christopher Pape, blues harpist and English teacher, at Paul's house in Barnet, 1990s

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Kids Eat for 99p
Brighton Palace Pier, 1990s

more from the print archives tomorrow
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Aug 2018, 17:17

The usual random archive activity from the print scans in Part One, while July of this year is wound up in Part Two.

Ahem, didn't actually take many of these
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Logo
Of UKFA. Not really a print of anything - I scanned the T :oops:

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Toddling
I'm guessing I'm two there, so 1950 or ’51, in the back garden of 186 Clyde Road, Tottenham

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Trip Mode
Tripping with Billy (who took it) at the Mansions, early 1989 I think. I'm just putting on (or taking off) Dinosaur Jr's Little Fury Things

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Going Out
Celia and Grace, 168 Putney Bridge Road, 1976 or ’77

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Flying Earrings
Chip, Pete and Bec's wedding, Willesden Green, 1983

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Line-up
Form 3, Autumn 1958 I think, just before I was skipped up to form 1. Downhills School playground.
L to R: Me, Derek Cattle, David Tomkins, Chris Hart, Alan Glover, Neil Urquhart, Graeme Robinson, Anthony Innes, Um, Er, Alan Hubbard, Colin Read, Glyn Cornish, John Gordon, John Bull, Reno Caldarelli, not sure. Only remember 60% of girls.

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Psychedlic
Took this to illustrate an article I was writing and/or editing for an antiques/collectibles partwork called What's it Worth
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Aug 2018, 17:19

Part Two
The last day of July

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Blue Morning
Agapanthus

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Breaking Up

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Dilating
This dahlia's pleased to see me

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Snappy
Two snapdragons: they put on a really good show this year

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A Day at the Beach
Two young women turned up with half a dozen kids under five While Scrap and I were at the beach. Never seen them before nor since, but I really like this picture of them

Back tomorrow if I get some more editing done.
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 30 Aug 2018, 23:21

An all-archive selection today, with part one focusing on the print scans, and part two on transparencies

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Feeding Frenzy

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Exercise
Weston-Super-Mare

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Drama

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Fun
Brighton

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Turned
Oldland Common

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Cut
Carlton Mansions

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Gloves
North St, Oldland

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 30 Aug 2018, 23:22

Part Two

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Vigil
Carlton Mansions, 1988-89

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Thrilling Wonder
Trip Room, Oldland

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Ed
Carlton Mansions

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Red

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Selfie
Trip Room

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Twilight Saga
Carlton Mansions
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 31 Aug 2018, 17:17

In part one, 3 August in Sandford, and all the usual suspects are there

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Bundle
It's August, and a young boy's fancy turns to beating up the local princess. Scrap and Kizzy romping in the dry grass, while Elvis looks on

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The Glade
Lots of plants transferred to pots in anticipation of a move to a new garden

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Big Pink
Shocking Tigridia

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Drinking from the Big Bowl
Scrap refuels in the garden pond

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Flyby

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Evel is in Trouble...

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...Big Trouble

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 31 Aug 2018, 17:19

Part Two takes another dip into the prints archive

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Flurry
1990s, North Street, Oldland

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No Poos!
1980s, Crewkerne

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Four Stages of Illumination
1970s

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Under Construction
The Trip Room, 1990s

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Spaced
Ed's, 1990s

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Solar Power Lines
Oldland Common, 1990s.

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Are We Having Fun Yet?

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Sep 2018, 19:46

A bit nip and tuck, but I've got today's pics ready, starting with a floral tribute from the first week of August.

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Diascia

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Violas

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Acidanthera

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Dinner-Plate Dahlia

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Another Dinner-Plate Dahlia

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Artichokes

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Sep 2018, 19:47

Part Two

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From the West Side to the East
Early Banksy (maybe school of...) Bristol, 1990s

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The Last of Oldland
Kes at North Street, 2005 (I think)

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Too Cute
Embarrassed to say I can't remember her name - Molly perhaps – dog belonging to Ros, Putney, 2000s maybe

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Comfy
An elderly Sal in the attic room at 77 North Street, not long before she died - 2001?

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All the Fun
Brighton

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Jagged Ladder
Grand Union Canal, Camden

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Jetty
Bristol

hope to return tomorrow: usual caveats apply
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 02 Sep 2018, 19:06

Part one is taken from the print scans archive

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Meeting at the Temple
The usual crew meet to decide the fate of the world on the mantlepiece of the Trip Room

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Linda
77 North Street, July 1997

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600-year-old Smile
Kenn church, I think, 2000s

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Hortense
Ceramic hare in the living room at 77 North Street

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Frontage
Weymouth

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Vanishing Points

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The Curvature of Space Time

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Postby Rayge » 02 Sep 2018, 19:06

Part Two features the continued heatwave in early August, and Him and Me off for a paddle in the Creedy

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The Way to Happiness

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New Territory
The Beach itself is that sliver of light halfway up the photo on the left

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Lean
Looking upriver from the same spot

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Who, Me?
Butter wouldn't melt in that mouth, but lignite shreds

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A Shoe In
Sorry

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Does Not Compute
Dog and stick on dry land, doggy dad in the drink: the world turned upside down

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Stealing a March on Autumn


Tomorrow, more from the Mighty Creedy and the garden, and whatever I can scrape together from the archive files
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 03 Sep 2018, 17:37

Part one today starts off where we left off yesterday, by the Creedy; then, like the children of Woodstock, it gets back to the Garden

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Promises

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Chow Down

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Spectacular

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Picotee Begonia

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Susans and Rust

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Velvet

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Blue Ball

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 03 Sep 2018, 17:38

Part Two
more randomness from the print archive

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Crack'd
Bristol, 2000s

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Tea Party
The 'Parlour' at 186 Clyde Road Tottenham, 16/10/53. My Fifth birthday. I'm second left with the gappy grin. Others are my cousins Tony, Richard, Christine, Frances, Brenda, and June. Two now dead, one long missing, and three living in Essex

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Wanna Drag?
Barney, Bristol, 1990s. This herbert played several times for England Schoolboys at football, may even have captained them

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Fun on the Beach
Sallywags, late 1990s

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Meld
An accidental double exposure in the camera, something you just don't get in the digital age. Bill's admiring his New Order T-shirt in the mirror, while I'm gawping at something while wearing my favourite collarless shirt. I suspect LSD had been taken. 1980s, Carlton Mansions

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Merthyr Hard Man
Peter John, Goginan, 2000s

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Déjeuner sur le patio
Peter John, Clive (in shadow profile), Mo. As above

more tomorrow
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 04 Sep 2018, 18:02

Slide scans first, most from the 1990s as far as I can tell

First, a few from the Trip Room
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Look Out There's a Monster Coming
A Monstera deliciosa to be precise

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Endpapers

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Yearn

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Detail
this one was up about a week ago, but the cut-down version appeared later in the archive, and I think it's better, so here you go

and a couple of skies to finish
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Oldland Skyline

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Silky

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 04 Sep 2018, 18:03

Part Two
six more from the garden in early August

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Solidago

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Dahlia Bed

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Sprayed Scarlet

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From Seed
I'm still enough of a novice gardener to be delighted when a seed grows into a fully functioning plant:
one of several dwarf cactus dahlias

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Bee Balm
Monarda, aka bergamot, tends to look a little shabby, but, true to its common name, the bees love it

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Double Choke
Cut these artichokes with the intention of eating them, but they went from bud to flower before
that happened so I put them outside, where they continued to develop

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