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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  April 24, 20185:00 am| 7 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

Submit Your Photos

Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

Today – lots of flowers! :)

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter Jeff.

4.3.18

Took these shots Monday. The daffodils liked this past winter. The third
shot is of species daffodils. They are 4 inches tall and come up same time
as the crocus. Will plant more this coming fall.

 

And then….

Taking in Philadelphia 4/14/18. Every year I do a pot of tulips to put on
the front step. Attached is this year’s pot. The hot weather forced their
blooming. Now that the cold has rolled back in they will last longer.

 

And a little 4/20 action, man:

4.20.18

Attached photo of the pot of orange clivias for this year. This morning I
notice cobwebs on it. Turns out the garden spiders had hatched out due to
being warm enough in the house. Had to vacuum the plant to get them off. I
have more than enough spiders in here spinning webs everywhere.

 

Wow, thank you so very much Jeff! Happy Spring, indeed!

Do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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  1. 1.

    Mary G

    April 24, 2018 at 5:26 am

    Those are gorgeous, Jeff! The little species daffodils are so pretty. I have clivia, but with so little rain in So Cal this year mine are pathetic. You definitely have a green thumb with bulbs. Thank you for sending them.

  2. 2.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 24, 2018 at 5:52 am

    @Mary G: I planted wildflowers in the little space I call a garden outside the cave several years ago. My idiot landlord proceeded to pull everything out but seemed to have shaken off enough seeds that they come back each spring except for the California Poppies. This year I went to the Orange Home Improvement Werehouse and purchased CA poppies. They haven’t come up yet(as far as I can tell), but I’m hopeful. I’ll send some pics for AL’s garden thread.

  3. 3.

    Quinerly

    April 24, 2018 at 7:07 am

    ?????❤️

  4. 4.

    debbie

    April 24, 2018 at 7:23 am

    I’ve never seen species daffodils before. Beautiful!

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    April 24, 2018 at 8:54 am

    Beautiful flowers!

  6. 6.

    J R in WV

    April 24, 2018 at 11:53 am

    Wonderful springy photos! Of wonderful springy flewers (sic – that’s how I say that word when I’m excited about the flowers!) !

    Our daffodils are nearly shot now, just a few late bloomers hanging on. But the other springy flowers are growing in all green.

    Thanks Jeff!!

  7. 7.

    StringOnAStick

    April 24, 2018 at 12:02 pm

    Oh, I have some of those species daffodils, I recall reading that they are a very old variety, like 1700’s or 1800’s. I really like them but they don’t seem to spread as well here in the CO climate like the much more common small daf called Tete a tete; those multiply like crazy here. This year the super early ones like that bloomed and managed to catch a break and be done before the heavy spring snows hit, which have been a a bit tougher on the full sized dafs. The elk managed to sneak up the street and munch half the tulips early one morning; tulips are front yard only here because anything in the back is subject to all the open space critters, so no tulips, garden veggies, or anything tasty goes back there.

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