A few pics from around where I live....and

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:06 am

West side of the house...Castors

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leaving....

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Looking east...down my street

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Approaching the town square-I took most(all)of these out the window.(shocked)

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Convention center-town has a lot for 9600(or so) pop

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One of two domes (1 for the men,one for the woman)where hundreds(sometimes thousands)go to meditate every day... M.U.M campus.

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Other side...grass looks great doesn't it(dead)

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Golden dome (organic)market.

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Heading out to a job there are a few nice trees.

Heres one-a Dawn Redwood-

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To the job...staining a house.

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Back into town......

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....there is a neat house.

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Another cool tree-the big pine...

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2 free plants-Jade needed trimming

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Got this nice sized Fiddle leaf fig at Wally world for $5!

I mean,I have enough plants but how can you walk past it for 5 dollar!?

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Heres a rich persons house

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Thanks for looking
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Wow-already 97F before 11am

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igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:33 am

hardyjim wrote: Got this nice sized Fiddle leaf fig at Wally world for $5! I mean,I have enough plants but how can you walk past it for 5 dollar!?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:42 pm

Hey Jim, what a nice visit to your town.
Really enjoyed that, thank you.

Love the tree-shaded streets, great architecture and the town square.
My town's planning to build a town square...only 100 years late

What does M.U.M. mean? Is it a university?

Quiet town...or everybody hiding indoors at 104 F ????
Looks like all flat lands...how far away is winter skiing?

Your corn is so much taller than the cornfields here...ours is only 3 feet tall (cow-corn) from our cold spring and heavy rainfall events.

Great wall of privacy you've built with the Castors.

and yup...that fiddleleaf is a steal at $5.00.

Barb

Okanagan desert-palms · Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:58 pm

Great pics Jim. It looks like a very nice place to live

What is the population of your city?

John

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:53 pm

Awesome pics Jim, thanks for sharing.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:48 pm

COncidering the pics ive seen of the midwest, im surprised that corn is still green and alive....

Nice place Jim.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:22 pm

Thanks Y'all

The corn looks better than it is,the corn ears look like little cigars
so all the green is in the leaves....

pop is around 9600 US

Thanks Barb

MUM is a campus of meditators,a college to boot.....

it was 7:25ish in the morning,not to much traffic.

I always wanted a Fiddle leaf fig since I was a kid,
always thought they were cool-fun to have one now and
it looks like it is ready to grow

btw
Be cool if the Dumb cane stayed that lime green color...take care

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:45 pm

Nice shots Jim...........the dawn redwood has a strange shape..........must be to all your wind out there?

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:04 am

Jim - I used to clean a house for an east indian family who had a 25 foot tall fiddle fig (they had high vaulted ceilings). The husband told me he brought it from india, from a tree in his parents yard that was hundreds of years old! Dispite the size, it was only in a 4 gallon pot!!!!!!

ITs hard to get thos dieffenbachia to keep the proper colour. Too much shade they stop growing, and too much light they turn bright green.

Tim - Dawn redwood get hit my lightning all the time from what ive read. It snapps the top off, and it regrows. Probably why that tree has a strange shape. Still very gorgeous trees!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:25 am

Thanks Jesse

Tim

It may have had the lead branch snapped by ice or something,this
is somewhat common in ice storms here..with those conifers...you know...
with all those dang little needles and such,they do tend to collect the ice

I will take a closer look sometime when it's safe to be outside!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:16 pm

Hmmm...a campus of meditators.
I should send you some folks (who don't think at all)

Hope your blistering heat ends with two days of rain.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:36 am

lucky1 wrote:Hmmm...a campus of meditators.
I should send you some folks (who don't think at all)

Hope your blistering heat ends with two days of rain.

We have plenty of non thinkers here...well,only think of themselves...same thing

It does make for a peaceful community when 5000 people-or so-sit down to meditate at 5pm

We got .18" last night,enough to wet the ground and raise the humidity for a day

This has been brutal-I need to get some pics of the suffering,the Hostas are almost dead back to the ground.

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:38 pm

Looks like a nice town. Nice change of pace from the stress jungle that is where I reside.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:46 pm

Thanks Jack

I always chuckle a little if I don't make a traffic light the first time here
....because it happens once or twice a year

One thing that is fun about living in a small town is,once I get my stuff on a job
I can usually just ride my bike to where ever I am working,it somehow doesn't feel
like work if you get to ride your bike

I think the last time I came back from Az
I only put like 500 miles on my car in a year.

Some people here don't even use their cars,they always ride their bike

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:37 am

hardyjim wrote:Thanks Jack

I always chuckle a little if I don't make a traffic light the first time here
....because it happens once or twice a year

One thing that is fun about living in a small town is,once I get my stuff on a job
I can usually just ride my bike to where ever I am working,it somehow doesn't feel
like work if you get to ride your bike I think the last time I came back from Az
I only put like 500 miles on my car in a year.

Some people here don't even use their cars,they always ride their bike

The picture with the band shell reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode called, "Willoughby".

If you have not seen it, look it up. Trust me, it is a compliment.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:01 pm

Which picture?

What is a band shell?

I watched the first half of that episode on youtube.......
could not find the second half but i did see the last 2 minutes.

I moved here for some of the reasons the conductor mentioned to him
when he was describing the town and I have not been disappointed......

Hey look-the Fiddle leaf fig I got at Wally world for $5 is already growing

look what else is happening....flowers?...branches???

I got a new cactus yesterday

it was a good deal $48 delivered!

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:36 am

hardyjim wrote:Which picture?

What is a band shell?

I watched the first half of that episode on youtube.......
could not find the second half but i did see the last 2 minutes.

I moved here for some of the reasons the conductor mentioned to him
when he was describing the town and I have not been disappointed......

Maybe Gazebo is the proper term.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:59 am

I certainly know what you mean now

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