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When the seed pods are ripe,

trkingmomoe — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:14:50 +0000

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When the seed pods are ripe, I can send you some. They are true to seed and easy to propagate. They make a nice house plant and like to be pot bound in a clay pot. I think this is a cross between the Johnson Amaryllis and Puniceum Amaryllis which are both old garden varieties. The cross probably happened naturally. It is orange red with a yellow star. It could be an old Dr. Mead variety from the end of the 19th century.

Magnifico! Stupendous! Heart

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:27:53 +0000

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Magnifico! Stupendous! Heart fluttering and breathtaking in person, I am sure! My absolute favorite color of flower (glowing nectarine,) which I'll take wherever I can get it, much less huge amaryllis. Kudos due to your family for propagating them farther and wider.

The early variety of daffodils in my backyard are 1"-- it's the start of spring in da Bronx-- this truly horrible, horrible winter is finally over.

I thought you would all enjoy

trkingmomoe — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:55:21 +0000

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I thought you would all enjoy some sun shine. It has been a rough winter for all of you.

OT... These are heirloom plants from my grandmother that died in 1955. My uncle gave her a pot of these when my mother was a little girl (1920's). They would bloom around Easter. The plant created new bulbs and more pots of them were made. All my aunts had some growing in their houses. So every spring my mom would take these out of the window in the dining room and put them on display and the flowers would last several weeks. She would get 2 or 3 blooms from them each year and the family called them her mom's Easter lilies.. Most of the time snow would still be on the ground when they first set buds. I was given a pot of them and I always had them growing even up north. I brought them here from home. I became over run with them because this is their natural climate. I planted the extras out side when I would repot. Even potted they would bloom tons of flowers. We let them go to seed each year and have gathered some to see how easy they are to grow from seed. I need to check to see if there is a local seed exchange or swap from heirloom seeds. The seeds come right up. It takes about 3 years to get them to bloom from seeds. Maybe that is why amaryllis are so expensive to buy as bulbs. The blooms are 4 to 5 inches across.

A few years ago they opened a

trkingmomoe — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:22:56 +0000

In reply to Double haiku: Seems to me,

A few years ago they opened a brand spanking new charter school near here. It looks like a college campus and is quite pretty So they had to cut back bus service to public school in order to have buses for the new school. It became a pain in the butt to get the kids to the new bus stop or you had to drive them to school. This is a working poor neighborhood so the only option they had was to send the kids to the new private charter school because it had our old bus stop. Me...I would crawl through glass first.

I can hear the kids play on the porch so I will listen to them. My kids are light years now head of them in critical skills thinking and problem solving. It really shows in their playing. I also notices better social skills and general knowledge. And yet these kids are bringing home very good grades from this charter school while my kids explain the clouds to them in the sky.

Yeah, the largest

Richard Day — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:45:58 +0000

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Yeah, the largest megaphone.

We humans are idiots.

I, of course, look back at my life experience and what an idiot I have been.

But I was always good at taking tests!

NO KIDDING. If it were not

Richard Day — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:43:49 +0000

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NO KIDDING.

If it were not for evergreens up here, dingy white and gray would be our only colors.

hahahah

Nice flowers!

MrSmith1 — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:37:49 +0000

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Nice flowers!

Diane Ravitch, author of

rmrd0000 — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:43:21 +0000

In reply to Double haiku: Seems to me,

Diane Ravitch, author of "Reign of Error", talks about the scam of Charter schools in NYC. The academic achievements quoted by the woman attacking De Blasio are nonexistent even with getting rid of the "worse" students. Governor Cuomo is merely looking for Wall Street handouts for his upcoming campaign.

The media should be less accepting of success claims given the Michelle Rhee experience.

The only standing that I can

trkingmomoe — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:52:21 +0000

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The only standing that I can add to this is my amaryllises. There are hundreds of them standing in front of my trailer right now.

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Double haiku: Seems to me,

MrSmith1 — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:52:19 +0000

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Double haiku:

Seems to me, "Standing"

is a matter of context

which each of us 'grant'.

"Standing" can also

be revoked at any time

for reasons we choose.

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Standing is an arbitrary thing; granted to those we either admire or wish to use as an object lesson. It is denied, through both legitimate means, (failure to meet certain quantifiable standards) and by an individual's prejudices (for example: The President is black, therefore he is not legitimate.) Which has more standing as a decision making process? Unfortunately, the media often gives both processes equal treatment and therefore, equal legitimacy. It makes it harder to stand up for truth and justice when there is no clear definition of either, only the many shouted opinions of vested interests. In that situation, he who has the largest megaphone often has the most standing. Which is why the good old U. S. of A. has degenerated into a puppet show of squabbling idiots with big megaphones and little actual standing. Crushing opponents through media is the new victory. Look at the Charter School hissy fit woman who attacked Mayor DeBlasio in the last few weeks. A complete media onslaught, which fueled lots of headlines against the mayor. And for what? She runs Charter Schools and was only granted 5 new ones out of the 8 for which she applied. So she did a media buy and ran vicious ads attacking the mayor for destroying the lives of inner city children. And the local media all picked up the story, giving only the version of the story presented by the Charter School woman. The truth, in my opinion is, she wasn't thinking of the poor children, the Charter Schools are her business and she wants more money. Proof? She throws out disabled and developmentally challenged children from her Charter Schools because they bring the test score averages down. That's how she maintain the "superior educational opportunities" that are the justification for Charter Schools... by cherry picking and creating the context, not raising the level of content. It was a disgusting media attack, and to me, verification that Charter Schools and the privatizing of the Public School system is why America continues to sink into the abyss. We have sold our future to the jackals of entrepreneurship. Sorry, for the spontaneous rant...