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Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Republicans in disarray!

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Their shamelessness is their super power.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

So very ready.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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  5. 5.

    OzarkHillbilly

    great pics, thanx Ema Ema. too much trouble typing to play what’s that flower games this am. :-(

    as to, ‘What’s going on in my garden, this week, not a damn thing. why are you rubbing it in? ;-(

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    Happy Daylight Savings Time, jackals.

    I love the fall back. And can always use the extra hour of sleep!

  8. 8.

    Betty

    A family member just posted pictures of Number 8 asking if anyone knew what it was. I sent her a plant i.d. website to check but haven’t heard back if she found out. Otherwise, lovely pictires!

  10. 10.

    satby

    Beautiful pictures Ema! Someone else can have a turn guessing, but love them.

    It’s going to be a warm (for November) sunny day today, I still have 13 dormant rootballs to plant, the leaves have started to fall with a vengeance, and won’t be able to do much in my garden today. I’m committed to a charity craft market, the Out and Proud Craft Show, a fundraiser for my friend’s group. I committed to it two months ago, and if it was typical November weather I’d be delighted to spend a day indoors at what I hope will be a fun event. But 63°! ??

  11. 11.

    debbie

    @sab:

    My Mamaw’s Peace roses were ivory with a touch of pink. I would like to know the flowers in the second photograph. Leaves like impatiens, but that color variation!

  12. 12.

    Ken

    @Elizabelle: I love the fall back. And can always use the extra hour of sleep!

    Ditto. The question is when to use it, since my @#$% body has decided to wake up at the usual time.  Maybe an afternoon nap is in order.

  13. 13.

    Ken

    @sab: I knew there was a catch.  One of the few I recognized was #1 — “that’s a rose, that is” — but we also have to name the variety?

    (Or is it breed? Cultivar? Strain?  Googles… Hmm, “rose strain” is a plant, but not in the rose family.)

  15. 15.

    satby

    @Elizabelle: End of Daylight Savings Time! The time changes don’t bother me at all, I get up and fall asleep on the same light /dark cycle whatever the clocks say. But the evening darkness will restrict my ability to drive, so as much as I welcome the morning light again I’ll regret being a bit housebound in the early evenings.

  16. 16.

    opiejeanne

    #1 is a rose, but I don’t recognize it at all.

    #2 is an impatiens, possibly a New Guinea?

    #3 is a pelargonium (geranium) don’t know what variety

    #4 is a coleus

    #5 is another impatiens, don’t know what type.

    After that, I dunno.

  17. 17.

    opiejeanne

    @debbie: Yes, the Peace rose is sort of yellow-ivory with a pink blush. The story is that it was in development by Meilland in France at the start of WWII, was smuggled out of the country, and introduced after the war as The Peace Rose.

    There are “sports” and offspring of it using Peace intheir names, such as Climbing Peace and Pink Peace.

  21. 21.

    opiejeanne

    @sab: It’s open a little too far to see its form, so from the color alone it’s hard to tell what it is. The leaves are very healthy-looking, and there’s an insect, a bee?, peeking out near the top of the flower. If there is a Rose Society in the area, they might be able to identify it.

  22. 22.

    MazeDancer

    @opiejeanne:

    After that, I dunno

    #6  Another rose, maybe

    #7  The yellow one is some kind of mum trimmed into topiary, which never seen before. The other one is a Croton Mammy. I think.

    #8 Possibly, some kind of euonymous?

  23. 23.

    Tinare

    Geraniums were my mom’s favorite flowers. Especially red ones. Thanks for the good memory this morning.

  24. 24.

    Gvg

    Rose

    New Guinea impatiens

    Geranium

    Coleus

    New Guinea impatiens

    Rose

    Chrysanthemum and Croton for foliage

    not sure but best guess in one of the Asian species of beauty berry

  26. 26.

    Ken

    @MazeDancer: Around here, most of the commercial buildings decorate in late fall with mums that have been shaped like that, I assume by the commercial grower. They go into the flowerbeds along with some ornamental cabbage, and freeze three weeks later. Never saw the point.

  27. 27.

    Gin & Tonic

    So a question to the gardening folks this morning. In the spring I planted a rhododendron to fill in a spot where one had been earlier (was cut down for construction reasons.) Bought the plant at one of the big box stores, looked vigorous and grew well. I fertilized with acidic fertilizer when I planted it, and kept it well-watered during the hot and dry months. It gets full sun for only a couple of hours. Anyway, even though it is growing, all the leaves have dry brown spots that look like this. Everything else in the same bed is doing well with no obvious issues (I have dwarf Alberta spruce and pieris there.) Any clues?

  28. 28.

    Gvg

    We got our first cold weather and cold hard rain yesterday so my garden is a little beat down. It was in the 50’s yesterday which to a Floridian is miserably cold. The main thing blooming is a pass along species of cosmos I can’t identify. Bright pink flowers late summer and fall but it grows around 10 feet tall. I have decided it looks to weedy for the front yard growing without bloom all summer and shading other things out like rose bushes…next year back yard. Right now there are about 100 blooms on each 10 foot stalk. Just a few plants are quite impressive but really hard to photograph as blooms are way up and the light is never quite right. I have been reading for 2 years and still have no clue as to the species.

    I am also going to try cutting it back until near bloom time. The stalks are tall but the roots aren’t deep enough so it leans over everything else.

  30. 30.

    opiejeanne

    @Gin & Tonic: Or cats. One of ours has started complaining, and it’s only 5am here. He usually waits until 8am, but he’s stirred up the other one and she’s been stomping on us in the bed.

  31. 31.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @satby: A sweet set of pictures. You raised good people. (I like to think I did too: Son #1 does cat rescue and Son #2 now has his second rescue beagle, a former lab animal that had to learn how to be a dog.)

  37. 37.

    StringOnAStick

    My summer-long task of converting 70% of the backyard into garden beds is nearly complete; just one more much smaller rock wall to build and fill to create another well drained raised bed.  Now I’m using the scale map I made to plan the plants and shrubs for an irregular shaped bed that’s 20′ by 23′ at its largest dimensions; this is the fun part after a summer of brutally hard work to get there, but I’ve made my goal of being (mostly) ready to install drip irrigation and plant next spring.

  38. 38.

    StringOnAStick

    @MazeDancer: They’re probably cushion mum varieties; gumdrop shape but often not hardy when it gets cold.  Raised to be disposable, a concept that’s troubling to me.

  40. 40.

    scav

    Well, here’s an obscure fall job I’ve got lined up for today (as it appears sufficiently not actively raining).  Combing out the miscanthus so we don’t have to cut them back entirely yet.  Hoping to see them at least once in a solid frost.  As of all autumnal jobs, it’ll be revisited in a mere few days as more leaves fall off.

  42. 42.

    Platonicspoof

    @Gin & Tonic:

    If you are still around, here in the PNW I frequently use the three extension handbooks for diseases, insects and weeds.

    Closest match to your image appears to be this one, ‘Leaf Spots’. Just enter ‘Rhododendron’ in the search space for 31 other diseases and abiotic conditions.

    Very critical to plant rhodies high, especially for good flowering. I wouldn’t mulch the root zone. In general, better to plant perennial flowers, trees and shrubs too high rather than too low.

    Your soil may not have needed fertilizer, only a soil and/or leaf analysis can determine it. Rhodies are inefficient at iron uptake, so also worth checking. If your rhodie does need iron, and fertilizer, add the iron first. There can be competition between different elements for the same ion receptor sites in the soil.

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