Conficker Worm and other things

Bear Wresting!
This photo is one for the album on my old web page, called bears. I will frame them all for on the web page album, I think. I have a few more for the Painted Vases album also. I want to frame those and load larger photos in the album.

Tomorrow at 8:00 Wally will be here to install the carpet and the lino in the ensuite. So, I will be unplugged tomorrow. I have taken photos of the things plugged into the tower and the bars. I hope I can get it all plugged in again. I am so dumb about this stuff... this is a good exercise for me. Maybe I won't be so afraid I am going to break something, if I just go ahead and do stuff. I moved my scanner and printer. I accidentally unplugged the keyboard and then plugged it back into the wrong hole. Welllll took me a while to figure out why my settings would not load. Really!! It is going to take making all the mistakes, I guess, to learn.

I spent quite a bit of my time today reading about this Conficker Worm that seems to have been introduced some time in November and is being re-invented to make it harder for Microsoft to defend against. Microsoft and a few of the other internet important companies have banded together to combat this malicious thing. Microsoft has offered a $250,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of the creator(s). There seems to be a threat of the worm attacking from its botnet on April 1st. Since I have to be unplugged tomorrow, I might just stay unplugged for the 3 more days. I am sure the garden could use my attention.

The daffodils are showing color, the helebores, anemones, cyclamens, arabis, are all starting too. The snowdrops and crocus are about finished. I have not had time to get the photos of these plants ready for posting. Well, maybe, Sunday, I can just work with my photos and not be on the internet. This might work so I can get caught up with a few of the things I want to get done.

At the Jewish Cemetery

On March 6th I was shooting photos for the Victoria Grid Project - a group on Flickr. The Jewish Cemetery is in the March grid. As I was getting my photos ready for the grid group pool, I noticed that this flower pot is broken and the poppy does not look like a flower from the florists, or a cut flower. Oriental poppies, are difficult to keep this fresh looking and you seldom if ever seem them sold as cut flowers. When I was shooting this, I took no notice of how this flower was growing. NOW, looking at my photos, I believe this poppy is growing in the ground. It is very early for this plant to be in bloom, though. Perhaps its the warmth of all the stones in the area. The poppies in my garden have leaves about 6 - 8 inches tall, now... 3 weeks after these shots were taken. I really must go back some time and try to find this flower again.

I have finished cleaning up my light garden and find I now have one extra tray, without plants. I think I will leave it for now, as I have no plans for more plants, at the moment. Two of the cactus plants are too tall for the tiers and I might put them out for the summer and not bring them in.

Last evening we went to see Slumdog, the Millionaire. Oh boy!! this is a high impact movie.. there are parts that I could not watch. It did have a happy ending. I was happy to end up back home where its quiet, clean, and comfortable.

More of the March 7th snow

More photos from our momentary snow on the 7th of March.

The ladybug opens up and there is a tiny space inside. I have a collection of little boxes. Some as keepsakes from places we have travelled. The collection is going to be in my 'pass through' new cabinet and will be visible from the living room and from my room. The ladybug box was in a giftshop in the Tillicum Mall. I could not resist it. It is my favourite box at the moment.

In looking at the site meter of my blog this morning, I found that My Garden is an author on this new website: metrocascade. Since they seem to be using my posts under Gardening, I guess I should be entering some Gardening information!! So, I signed on to their site. I don't know if I should attempt to post to their page, or if I should just keep adding any information to my blog.