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3610. wonkers2 - 2/19/2006 10:08:01 PM She was an unusual woman who led an interesting life. Not bad looking either! 3611. Magoseph - 2/19/2006 10:13:26 PM Her mother was quite extraordinary, considering her origins. Consuelo was her master piece. 3612. ronski - 2/22/2006 10:54:44 PM Nice phals, nice snow scenes. 3613. ronski - 2/22/2006 10:57:26 PM 
Catt with cat. Or vice versa.
3614. PelleNilsson - 2/22/2006 11:28:36 PM Well captured but too much contrast. 3615. Jenerator - 2/23/2006 12:12:30 AM The flash just overexposed it.
Still, I like it that the cat is softly out of focus in the background. 3616. thoughtful - 2/23/2006 12:14:26 AM Beautiful. 3617. Magoseph - 2/23/2006 1:28:16 AM I should admire the orchid, but I love the pinkish rusty beige colors of the cat and the cherry wine color of the table. I wonder if the cat jumped down after the photo was taken--it seems to gauge whether it’s possible. 3618. Ulgine Barrows - 3/3/2006 1:29:21 PM Ick. Orchids. 3619. arkymalarky - 3/5/2006 6:39:16 PM Alistair, or anyone else here who's had experience with organic gardening, wine making, or anything else organic, if you can provide any basic info, good websites, organizations, etc, I need input.
Bob's come into some land--not to own, but to use--and he's looking into doing some organic farming with it, and also growing muscadines and making the wine himself. Since the land is rent-free and he has farming equipment, what he's looking at is materials, seed, and plant suppliers, regulations for selling organic produce, etc, and good websites with basic info that aren't hokum or trying to sell something. 3620. arkymalarky - 3/5/2006 6:40:37 PM And we have a nice big cellar for storage. 3621. arkymalarky - 3/5/2006 6:44:34 PM Hey, the pictures are loading!
Gorgeous orchids!
And cat. 3622. Magoseph - 3/5/2006 6:47:46 PM Muscadines, the bronze and purple fruit... 3623. arkymalarky - 3/5/2006 6:51:45 PM They grow wild out here, but people also grow them on frames and muscadine wine is very popular in the South. My uncle in TX makes good muscadine wine. People around here pronounce them muskeedimes. 3624. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 1:15:52 AM Aaarrrghhh! I was expecting to get here this afternoon to piles of good organic gardening info! I'm afraid of Googling organic gardening and getting New Age wacko, planetary alignment stuff...
and if any of you happen to be into that, I mean it in the best possible way. 3625. alistairConnor - 3/7/2006 1:35:02 AM My approach to organic gardening is "live and let live"
also known as "survival of the fittest"
and as haven't got a good memory, I sometimes have difficulty distinguishing the crops from the weeds.
Seriously, I'm not a good reference for practical information.
If you want the weird stuff, look up biodynamics. Cows' horns filled with excrement and buried at full moon, that sort of stuff. Works, I'm sure, but the ritual part is surely superfluous.
Otherwise, mainstream organics is pretty unexciting. If you want to be certified, then there would generally be a couple of years' transition, where you have to use only organic methods, but you can't yet sell the produce as organic. 3626. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 1:39:52 AM That's what he's looking at--certification. This land hasn't been farmed in years. There was a news segment on CNN or MSNBC TV some months ago about that.
I'll dig online some when I get time at work this spring. It's hopeless at home. He and his best friend are already buying a few grape vines from an organic catalog--can't remember the name of it. 3627. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 1:41:25 AM BTW, Bob made his living as a farmer for a number of years, and both sides of his family have long traditions of farming. Still do, for that matter. 3628. alistairConnor - 3/7/2006 1:42:15 AM Choose the varieties with care, in respect of the climate and soil... I don't suppose you've got much of a winemaking tradition to guide you around there! 3629. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 1:53:46 AM You'd be surprised! Bob's friend's cousin (and as I mentioned above, my uncle) have already been at it for quite a while, and to our crude Arky palates it's pretty good stuff.
But no moonshine.
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