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Pics to warm your heart up north
« on: October 20, 2006, 11:15:45 AM »
These pics were taken yesterday. It was grey and rainy. We finally got a cold front but that put us in the 60's at night. Nothing to compare with the northern extremes. Hope you like the spoils of my work. I'll add more below...
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P.S. I would not have the Caliente if I had not found this board and gotten in contact with JoshS. I have been searching for three years for Craig's lilies before hitting the jackpot here. Sean and everyone involved in the creation of this board, these pix are a way of giving thanks back to you.
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2006, 11:17:06 AM »
Some more...
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2006, 11:23:16 AM »
Some more pix...
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2006, 11:24:35 AM »
Still some more...
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2006, 11:26:33 AM »
Still some more...hope it is warming your hearts... o(:-)
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2006, 11:28:08 AM »
Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for bringing a bit of summer back :)  o(:-)

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2006, 11:28:26 AM »
And finally a few terrestrial pics...
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2006, 11:29:46 AM »
Your pix are beautiful, Tim! O0
Nice, realisitic, untampered with photos!
The real thing! (8:-)

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2006, 11:32:51 AM »
Kay,
I am very glad that you enjoyed them. I love my lilies but I do enjoy seeing the snow pics as well. It has snowed 4 times in my life here. When it does it is cold and slushy due to our constant humidity. Five degrees up north feels much better than twenty degrees and wet here.
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2006, 12:07:38 PM »
More pics..yea!  @O@  ..which passiflora is that? It's very pretty.
It doesn't snow much here, mostly ice and that's rare. I enjoy the snow but lots of folks here don't and they won't drive in it. I however hate the humidity down here and I don't work in the garden until it's nicer out so it all works out I guess.

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2006, 12:38:13 PM »
Don't know for sure. My wife bought it at a big retail place and it had the tag for a mandevilla on it. I knew it wasn't right but had to wait for blooms to know for sure what it was. I have 4 diffirent passion vines. Some named. A few not.
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2006, 06:08:50 PM »
Beautiful Photo's O0

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2006, 07:57:17 PM »
Nice lily pics! You have some nice ones.
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2006, 12:10:20 AM »
Thanks for all the pics.  It sure did warm my cold, rainy day up here.  You know they talk about the dog days of summer.....but I'll take them over, cold nasty days anytime.

Your pics are Beautiful  8-)~, I just keep going back looking at them. 

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2006, 12:44:58 AM »
I've been trying to get some time to upload some newer images to my website. I have taken hundreds of shots this year. I am still getting multiple blooms on a number of plants.
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2006, 05:50:11 AM »
Absolutely Gorgeous!  I had to look in your profile to see where you lived that you still have this going on . . . Think I need to move to Texas. 

The passiflora looks like belotii - does it have a sweet smell?  It's one of my favorites because of it's lemonny smell.

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2006, 08:28:17 AM »
Yes the passiflora does a sweet fragrance. I think it was MikeW who had posted a pic of the beloti and I thought it looked an awful lot like mine. Its humid and warm here today but very overcast and with off and on showers. I'll try and get a few more pics taken and posted for my northern friends before I go in to work.
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #17 on: October 26, 2006, 11:02:51 AM »
It is rainy still but I got some overcast pix for you...  O0
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #18 on: October 26, 2006, 11:04:55 AM »
Some more for you to critique...
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #19 on: October 26, 2006, 11:06:21 AM »
The last batch of lily pix for today ...
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #20 on: October 26, 2006, 11:08:16 AM »
A few plant pix that are not totally lily related...


I hope you enjoyed them.

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #21 on: October 26, 2006, 11:44:59 AM »
A little something I created over the last day or so...

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2006, 12:09:42 PM »
Cool animation Tim O0
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2006, 12:57:22 PM »
Thanks for the heads up.
Shirley Ann and Pink Pearl really caught my eye, but they are all beautiful. You must have more than that one pond to grow all of them though.
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2006, 02:24:20 PM »
Beautiful plants Tim  O0 ..now I have to have Woods Blue Goddess next year  o(:-)..It's all your fault  ;)

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #25 on: October 26, 2006, 06:20:44 PM »
I think Jack Woods is possibly the most beautiful lily you've posted, tho it's awfully hard to pick when they are all so gorgeous!  I do love to look at lily pics . . . a LOT. 

Do you think you have enough vines for that arbor?  If not, I could probably send you a couple of cool ones . . . .


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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #26 on: October 26, 2006, 06:57:02 PM »
Great looking pics and good selection of Lilies. Mme Ghanna Walska looks a litte dark compared to mine but its nice.

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #27 on: October 29, 2006, 04:16:06 PM »
We need more awesome pix of your awesome lilies! (8:-)
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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2006, 09:42:16 PM »
Well...Roadrunner was down in Houston for 4 days. The inability to do anything online forced me to spend time updating my site a bit. I have uploaded 10 pages of pics in a flash format. The last few pages are what I uploaded in this thread. If you have a few moments and would like to see some of the pix, go to the following link...
http://timgodsgraphics.homestead.com/2006GalleryMain.html

If you do go check them out please let me know here what you think. All question or criticisms appreciated.

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Re: Pics to warm your heart up north
« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2006, 10:34:37 PM »
I visited the site.  Very well done and good deals! O0
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