WORLDWIDE PHOTO WEEK: Part 998 - The Letter "H"

[Win]

^ guessing you can polish them?

Yes, I tumble polished some and it came out great.

 

[RDWP]

Good to see the pups indulging in the age old habit of leash plaiting...

Yes - they have a special talent!

 

[joayne]

joeseph, you could change your Title to "Shines like a Turd"

or perhaps the Title Fairy... .. .

 

[RDWP]

Filing under "H" for How does it know - for the past 30 or 40 Christmases?? (Also a Houseplant.)

 

[joayne]

Filing under "H" for How does it know - for the past 30 or 40 Christmases?? (Also a Houseplant.)

Or Thanksgiving or Easter?

 

[Win]

This is a Historical barn in Toquerville, UT, the town I live in. The barn was photographed by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange in 1952 for a story in Life magazine. The article was titled "Three Mormon Towns", since then two books have been published on their trip.

 

[RDWP]

Or Thanksgiving or Easter?

Yeah, it is a bit better in sync with US Thanksgiving. The original cutting may have been born in the States. Easter usually pretty good, though.

Curious to know about Christmas cacti behaviour in the Southern Hemisphere; Joseph, John? If it blooms based on length days, for e.g., is timing reversed there?

 

[joayne]

They are actually different plants.. See Here or Here

 

[Joeseph]

Yeah, it is a bit better in sync with US Thanksgiving. The original cutting may have been born in the States. Easter usually pretty good, though.

Curious to know about Christmas cacti behaviour in the Southern Hemisphere; Joseph, John? If it blooms based on length days, for e.g., is timing reversed there?

not sure to be honest - suspect things down here are just 6 months adrift of how plants behave up north. Our plants at home are pretty basic (I'm no gardner!) one of the sons has just got a planter box & installed some tomato plants so that's the most exciting plant we have at the moment.

 

[joayne]

Hats

 

[::John::]

Yeah, it is a bit better in sync with US Thanksgiving. The original cutting may have been born in the States. Easter usually pretty good, though.

Curious to know about Christmas cacti behaviour in the Southern Hemisphere; Joseph, John? If it blooms based on length days, for e.g., is timing reversed there?

Ours aren't specifically knoown as Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving cacti - but they produce the same beautiful blooms - in July/August for where I live.

 

[Win]

I'll sneak this in. After photographing the barn I came home past a ranch with beautiful Horses.

 

[joayne]

NEW THEME

 

[hawaiiboy]

My new friend Hugh and the Hi-Light Festival

 

[hawaiiboy]

The pork Hocks looked and smelled great.

It is the season of Hope.

 

[RDWP]

They are actually different plants.. See Here or Here

Mine's segments look more pointed than Christmas but less pointy than Thanksgiving. Thoughts? Maybe a minor cultivar? These look a little devilish for Christmas

 

[RDWP]

not sure to be honest - suspect things down here are just 6 months adrift of how plants behave up north. Our plants at home are pretty basic (I'm no gardner!) one of the sons has just got a planter box & installed some tomato plants so that's the most exciting plant we have at the moment.

Ours aren't specifically knoown as Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving cacti - but they produce the same beautiful blooms - in July/August for where I live.

Righto. Sounds as if it's the length of the days that triggers the blooms. Thanks!