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My neglected Garden

May 31, 2007 by Tricia

 

Thirteen Things about My Garden  

This is Thursday Thirteen #38

1…. I love my garden. It’s where I go to de-stress and or collect my thoughts.

2…. My garden is also where I get one of the best workouts! Cutting, bending, digging, squatting, standing up, bending down, amending soil, adding mulch, lifting heavy bags or shovel fulls of soil … for hours on end? Yeah, that’s a workout!

3…. I’m still not feeling well due to the Crohn’s so, while I say the garden is a workout, I haven’t gotten much of a workout lately as I’ve been ignoring the work that needs to be done in the garden.

4…. I still need to prune at least half of my roses. I have more than 60!

5…. I bought some veggie seedlings and annuals a week and a half ago and I still haven’t planted them.

6…. The cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuces, beets, carrots, beans, and annual flowers need to be planted soon!

7…. Once I’m done planting the new plants, and likely buying more since I only bought a few, I’ll have to get busy putting the red cedar mulch down.

8…. Ok, I told a fib a minute ago, I haven’t totally ignored the garden – I have been keeping an eye on it.

9…. Lately my visits to the garden my include my camera.

10…. Each time I go into the garden I must take at least 100 digital photos of the flowers that have been blooming. I’ve been showing off some of those flowers on this blog, my gardening blog and my photoblog.

11…. We live in a fairly small house, so we created our garden and use it as additional living space.

12…. By this I mean, we entertain our friends in the garden, we have barbeque’s and dinner parties, or just use that lovely space to relax. I even bring my laptop out to the garden at times and do some of my computer/internet work while in the garden.

13…. My favorite time in the garden is coming soon. The roses and other scented flowers will soon bloom and it’s almost intoxicating to be in the garden surrounded by so many beautiful scents all at once. I can’t wait.

Wow, I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I’ve done a Thursday Thirteen Post. It’s about time that I did one isn’t it?

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A pretty annual flower

May 30, 2007 by Tricia

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My neighbor asked me to photograph some of her flowers the other day and this was one of the ones that I choose to take a photo of.

This is a lovely orangey red annual Salvia. They come in many colors and are quite pretty when they are in full bloom like this one is.

I’ve got to plant some of my pots and baskets with annual flowers. I haven’t done that yet!

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Filed Under: Photography, The Neighborhood, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: annual, annual flower, bloom, color, flower, flowers, neighbor, Orange, photo, photos, plant, Red, Salvia, Wordless Wednesday

The Forte Institute offers personality tests to help build effective teams and workforces

May 29, 2007 by Tricia

Anyone in the work force probably knows that employees, their managers and the owner of the company work better and are more productive when everyone gets along. Some companies take a lot of time and care when hiring new employees for their company because they not only want someone with the skills they need for the job, but they also want to find an employee who’s personality fits in well with the rest of the group.

TheForteInstitute.com has been working with corporations and individuals since 1978 to improve interpersonal skills. Their work involves helping companies build effective teams and increase productivity. The program that they developed was actually the first computer based communication style profiling system.

These days, TheForteInstitute.com offers a full range of communication style profiling, including a personality test and performance coaching. All of which are available via the internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The personality test and communication style profiling systems are used by major corporations, small businesses and even individual professionals.

Visit TheForteInstitute.com to learn more about their services. Start building your companies team today for a more effective and productive business in the future.

Filed Under: Education, Employment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Photography, Recreation, Sales and Marketing, Services, Shopping Tagged With: 24 hour, business, company, computer, corporation, employee, employer, Employment, Fort Institute, Job, personality test, program, small business, style profiling, system, team building, theforteinstitute.com

A touch of purity

May 27, 2007 by Tricia

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I enjoy the all of my spring flowers but I think I like the white flowers the best. When it grows dark at night I can still see them glowing white in the garden beds. They highlight other plants through the day, and give them cover as they grow. Beautiful, beautiful white tulips.

I hope to get around to all the Green Thumbers sometime tomorrow. Sorry that this post is late but I’ve had a rough day. It’s almost a new day …

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: beautiful, flower, flowers, garden, light, macro, photo, photos, picture, plant, plants, spring, tulip, White tulip

Fading, yet colorful tulip

May 26, 2007 by Tricia

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I had a hard time deciding which photo to post today. I’ve been taking a lot of photos of the flowers in my garden and many of the photos are quite lovely.

I decided to post this delicate pink tulip. It was nearing the end of it’s lifespan when I took this photo but it’s floppy petals just looked so attractive that I ended up taking about 20 different photos at various angles.

Do you ever do that when you are photographing something? Take 10 or 20+ photos just to be sure you’ve taken the best photo possible?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: colorful, fading tulip, flower, garden, photo, photo hunter, photograph, photos, pink tulip, plants, tulip

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