Newsletter chitchat - June 4, 2024

[Cassel]

Do you have photos of blooming shrubs, trees, or gardens?

Share your pics!

Also, when is that blooming happening in your area?

Let's chat.

[Anne Lamp]

I am not sure what bush this is, but it was taken the end of April at my Church like a lot of my flower pictures are.

Edited June 5, 2024 by Anne Lamp

[Ann Seeber]

On a visit to Warwick, I spotted these Queen of the Prairie flowers, and so I made a little layout using a Rachael Martin template.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Wow, I'm able to post!

Here is a photo of a "Japanse Kornoelje" or Japanese Dogwood that is flowering in a garden around the corner where I live. It is a European cousin of the Mountain or Pacific Dogwood which I saw in Yosemite a couple of weeks ago. Most of our spring flowering trees or bushes like the magnolia, cherry, apple and pear are over now and the rhododendrons have suffered from all the rain we got. I didn't have had the time to make a layout with this photo, I'm just glad my pc is up and running again. The problems started when we got a lot of updates from different sources almost at once. Our Network provider installed a new connection point, then we got a modem update, a windows update, an update for the drivers of the pc. My pc is an Acer and that got an update as well. Somehow there went something wrong, but I think and hope that everything here is up and running again! 

[Mary Solaas]

  On 6/5/2024 at 9:39 PM, Anne Lamp said:

I am not sure what bush this is, but it was taken the end of April at my Church like a lot of my flower pictures are.

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We called it Bridal Spirea

[Ann Seeber]

  On 6/8/2024 at 3:24 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Wow, I'm able to post!

Here is a photo of a "Japanse Kornoelje" or Japanese Dogwood that is flowering in a garden around the corner where I live. It is a European cousin of the Mountain or Pacific Dogwood which I saw in Yosemite a couple of weeks ago. Most of our spring flowering trees or bushes like the magnolia, cherry, apple and pear are over now and the rhododendrons have suffered from all the rain we got. I didn't have had the time to make a layout with this photo, I'm just glad my pc is up and running again. The problems started when we got a lot of updates from different sources almost at once. Our Network provider installed a new connection point, then we got a modem update, a windows update, an update for the drivers of the pc. My pc is an Acer and that got an update as well. Somehow there went something wrong, but I think and hope that everything here is up and running again! 

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Corrie, your experience with your pc sort of mirrors our problems here with the Campus and, additionally, when on the internet today, every one of my usual sites is asking for credentials and additional third factor ID. It is annoying, to say the least. 

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 6/8/2024 at 5:26 PM, Ann Seeber said:

Corrie, your experience with your pc sort of mirrors our problems here with the Campus and, additionally, when on the internet today, every one of my usual sites is asking for credentials and additional third factor ID. It is annoying, to say the least. 

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Ann tell me! This costed me more than 2 weeks to sort out and my son had to come to the rescue as well! Now I'm seeing what I can get back in the form as downloads from previous posts for the P52 and AAM challenges. It will be small 600.jpgs but at least I know what I made for the first 14 weeks. The rest of the file where I had all the results from all the workshops is lost! But to my immens relieve the rest of all my supplies, including everything I bought over the years is fine, as well as all of the monthly challenges.

[Cassel]

I know I might sound like a broken record, but online backup can be a life-saver. I can't imagine how i would do if I lost everything about the Campus, the store, and all my supplies and photos. That peace of mind is definitely worth that $100/year. I wrote about it in here.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Yah I know, but I have a separate SSD (solid state drive) for all my scrapbook supplies and a 2nd SSD as backup. The best part of my photos is in the iCloud as well as on the pc. Only PSP itself is on my C-drive. I'll have to think about an online backup; you on the other hand run the campus and the store, so that's something on a much bigger scale.

[Julie Magerka]

  On 6/5/2024 at 9:39 PM, Anne Lamp said:

I am not sure what bush this is, but it was taken the end of April at my Church like a lot of my flower pictures are.

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Is that bridalwreath spirea by any chance? Those bushes are always covered in small white flowers. (oops, just realized that Mary gave it the correct name)

Edited June 8, 2024 by Julie Magerka

[Julie Magerka]

  On 6/8/2024 at 3:24 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Wow, I'm able to post!

Here is a photo of a "Japanse Kornoelje" or Japanese Dogwood that is flowering in a garden around the corner where I live. It is a European cousin of the Mountain or Pacific Dogwood which I saw in Yosemite a couple of weeks ago. Most of our spring flowering trees or bushes like the magnolia, cherry, apple and pear are over now and the rhododendrons have suffered from all the rain we got. I didn't have had the time to make a layout with this photo, I'm just glad my pc is up and running again. The problems started when we got a lot of updates from different sources almost at once. Our Network provider installed a new connection point, then we got a modem update, a windows update, an update for the drivers of the pc. My pc is an Acer and that got an update as well. Somehow there went something wrong, but I think and hope that everything here is up and running again! 

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There are so many wonderful dogwoods that have such an abundance of blooms. I really like them.

[Julie Magerka]

  On 6/8/2024 at 2:57 PM, Ann Seeber said:

On a visit to Warwick, I spotted these Queen of the Prairie flowers, and so I made a little layout using a Rachael Martin template.

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That's not a plant I'm familiar with. Our soil wouldn't allow it to thrive I don't think. But it is so pretty.

[Julie Magerka]

More flower pictures from my garden. May & June are the best months (here) for fresh-looking plants. By July, it's all starting to look a bit tired and dry. And by then, I'm tired of pulling the same weeds over and over.

I used a layout from Katie Pertiet's site as a scraplift.

[Julie Magerka]

  On 6/8/2024 at 6:53 PM, Cassel said:

I know I might sound like a broken record, but online backup can be a life-saver. I can't imagine how i would do if I lost everything about the Campus, the store, and all my supplies and photos. That peace of mind is definitely worth that $100/year. I wrote about it in here.

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Peace of mind at a good price! I love online backup and don't mind paying for it.

[Ann Seeber]

  On 6/8/2024 at 10:11 PM, Julie Magerka said:

More flower pictures from my garden. May & June are the best months (here) for fresh-looking plants. By July, it's all starting to look a bit tired and dry. And by then, I'm tired of pulling the same weeds over and over.

I used a layout from Katie Pertiet's site as a scraplift.

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Beautiful, Julie. I'm in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley; where are you located? Just wondering if the flowers would be similar there.

[Mary Solaas]

Since this is about our current gardens, I'll repost my pictures of the flowers in our gardens in May. Three of our azalea bushes are pictured: the white, rose and pink which are in our back and side gardens.

Edited June 9, 2024 by Mary Solaas

[Julie Magerka]

  On 6/9/2024 at 6:59 AM, Ann Seeber said:

Beautiful, Julie. I'm in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley; where are you located? Just wondering if the flowers would be similar there.

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Thank you Ann. I'm in SW Ontario (near Windsor) and the climate is quite mild here for many plants that won't grow elsewhere in the province.

[Anne Lamp]

  On 6/8/2024 at 4:05 PM, Mary Solaas said:

We called it Bridal Spirea

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I should have know what it was.  We call it a Bridal Wreath too.  The pic was fro a couple of years ago and at that angle it didn't click what it was.  I have been taking pictures of those bushes for years, but not usually from that angle.  Just a senior moment I guess.  LOL

[fiona cook]

Foxgloves have appeared everywhere in our garden but I have not planted them. It must be the birds dropping seeds and then the seeds come up year after year. I let them do their thing.

[fiona cook]

My friend bought me a twizzel decoration for the garden and I liked the way its shape and colour mirrored the alliums that I have growing.

[Corrie Kinkel]

You have lovely tall alliums and I always like that purple color. We had those in our old house as well and white ones too, but I like the purple better. Do you keep the dried seedheads for decoration?