New Member Intro

[MaryT]

Hello! My name is Mary and I currently live in Northeast Arkansas. I stumbled across this site while searching for information on the wild violets that live in my yard :)

 

My interests include gardening, photography, restoring my historical house and thousands of other things!

 

It's very nice to meet all of you!

 

MaryT.

[Tolouse]

welcome MaryT

 

i used to live in the Van Buren district of Arkansas (mainly Kibler and Mountaintown)

[Tormod]

Welcome! We have a lot of plant lovers here! :)

[MaryT]

Thanks for the warm welcome :)

 

I should probably look into the Gardening Group after I retake my photos. I used my husband's camera, which I hate, and the photos did not come out good at all. Maybe someone can help me with identification in that group!

[Tormod]

They sure can! :) And it's great that we can build up a huge gallery of beautiful flowers and plants.

[alexander]

I've been doing some photography recently as well, though gardening isn't quite my, um, kink, I shall still hereby welcome you :)

 

Welcome to Hypography, the only place you know where the biochemical speak used to describe the soil and fertilizers for the flower gardens, sometimes, but rarely resembles English....

[MaryT]

alexander: Hmmm...biochemicals for soil, should be interesting, although I'm not the science type :D I can hold a decent conversation, which, more times than not, MAY resemble English. Kind of :beer:

 

Still haven't retaken the pics of the wild violets and such in the yard. It was a lazy day today!

[alexander]

It is a sort of tradition, kind of my thing, i try to greet any person who seems cool with their own hypography welcoming line (and i tell you, these things get more difficult to write as i write more of them)

 

can't wait to see those pictures :doh:

[Essay]

Please check out the "Terra Preta" sub-forum.

Lots of quirky gardening stuff there.

...and more insight or inspiration is always welcome.

 

Terra Preta needs a better name.

Any suggestions?

 

"Biogenic soil" sounds too sciency, but I think it's descriptive (and maybe not original either).

 

Cheers!

:doh:

[alexander]

Terra Preta is actually a pretty awesome name, in my view, it creates a historical paradox of something so old and known, reborn in something so new and scientific.

 

It's like the naming of anything NASA sends in space, eloquent yet contradictory :doh:

[freeztar]

Still haven't retaken the pics of the wild violets and such in the yard. It was a lazy day today!

 

Welcome Mary! :)

We can never have enough plant lovers imo. ;)

 

I suppose it is my pic that led you here then? If so, great! I hope it helped you with your ID. Note that those same violets can also be white.

 

I hope you stick around and join in the discusions and put some photos up in the "Wildflowers" or "Gardening" social groups. :)

[Pyrotex]

Terra Preta is actually a pretty awesome name, in my view, it creates a historical paradox of something so old and known, reborn in something so new and scientific....:)

What about "Armegeddon Dirt"???

 

"Honey? What are you doing outside?"

"Armegeddon Dirt for my new garden, sweetie."

[Essay]

What about "Armegeddon Dirt"???

 

"Honey? What are you doing outside?"

"Armegeddon Dirt for my new garden, sweetie."

 

Too long;

 

...but thanks for the best laugh this week!

:)

[MaryT]

Yep, I'll be around :shrug: The weather (between the severe storms) is gorgeous so I spend most of my time outside. Then the kids get home from school and it's Chaos Central. After dinner comes "mosquito feasting on me time" if I'm outside. I guess they just love my desert blood!

 

On that note, I spent 20-odd years in Vegas and surrounding areas, then moved to Arkansas in September. The flora and fauna are more interesting here, that's for sure! Then again, if you can grow a full garden in southern Nevada, you can pretty much do it anywhere!

 

I'll check out the other forums on gardening and such, and I already joined the Wildflowers group, but again, haven't taken any new photos. Maybe I'll tackle that today. After laundry :hihi: Yuck.

[alexander]

After laundry Yuck.

Aaaaw, just when i started to think that girls liked doing laundry, cooking, cleaning and stuff.... ;) jk

 

Then the kids get home from school and it's Chaos Central

Yes, the natural state of the universe.... Remember the second law of thermodynamics? (yes, yes i will remind you what it is, i'm generally pretty nice :) )

 

Rudolf Clausius 1856

[math]\int\frac{\delta\Theta}{T}=-N[/math]

 

The -N in this case is the equivalence-value, represents entropy

 

Clausius, upon realizing this 9 years later, in 1865, concluded:

The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

 

It's my favorite law for anything that deals with clutter... :)

[Thunderbird]

Hi Mary, I once floated the Buffalo river in your area, I bet it would have been a wild ride for the past few weeks, with all the rain you have been recieving.

[Moontanman]

Welcome Mary, this is great place to discuss almost anything and sometimes we even learn something! You might notice that some of what is said here closely resembles a certian type of organic fertilizer all of us who grew up farming know about:hihi: I'm all about growing my own.... vegtables and such:doh: