Journal Entries for 2019

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Some of the orchids that were in bloom in 2019

 January 2019 - BCL. Pot.Lisa Taylor Galis 'Nora' (Bcl. California Girl x Sc. Beaufort)  This is in bloom now in January 2020.  Nicely fragrant.

January 2019 - Paph. while,  I think the original might have been the infused blue that reverted to the natural white color. 

 January 2019 - Pixie  I believe it is a miniature Cattalaya.  A profuse bloomer.  Was in bloom in December.

 August 2019 -   BCL. Pot.Lisa Taylor Galis 'Nora' (Bcl. California Girl x Sc. Beaufort)  This is  bloomed in January 2019 and is in bloom now in January 2020.  Nicely fragrant.

August 2019 - Milt. Grace x Nancy 'Breathless Beauty'.  A pansy orchid with a lovely fragrance.   In bloom again in December and just finishing up now in January 2020.

 August 2019 - Phrag.  Lady Slipper.  Phrag. Philippenenease (not sure of the spelling) These orchids were in bloom on the light garden when we returned from our trip to Sask. 

 August 2019 - Cattleya species.  I think this is Cattleya intermedia Coriata x Aquinii

 November 2019 - The Paph, Pixie and Psyche

 November 2029 - Onc. Twinkle "Fantasy".  A lovely little plant with tiny delicate flowers.

November 2019.  Twinkle - same as above

 November 2019 - the Pansy orchid Mlt. Breathless Beauty

November 2019 - same as above, with its lovely fragrance.

November 2019 - the Paph.  a close up with Pixie in the background

 November 2019 - a poor picture of the showy Pixie.  It had 6 blooms on it.

 November 2019 - Sl. Psyche "China" L. cinnabarina X S. coccinea

November 2019 - a better picture of Psyche

The Christmas cactus... photo credit Pat on his phone. 

December -   BCL. Pot.Lisa Taylor Galis 'Nora' (Bcl. California Girl x Sc. Beaufort)  This is  bloomed in January 2019 and is in bloom now in Dec. 19/ January 2020.  Nicely fragrant.

December 2019 - same as above and still in bloom now in January 2020.

The African violets are in bloom also, but the whole light garden needs cleaning up and the plants need to be repotted and fed.  A big job that I am not looking forward to.

Over the last 3 days we have had - 6 for overnight temperatures and still below freezing during the day.  We now have about a 12 - 18 inches of snow piled up on the patio furniture.  I have been bringing the humming bird feeder in at night and out again in the morning.  The hummers have been using it.  I seem to have 2 or 3 of them around this year. 

I have finally got my ancient web page back on line after the Godaddy server migration.  I am considering moving it all closer to home.  I am not really keeping up to all the new stuff on websites, but the page still works and I would like to keep it,  as it would cost a lot to have it remade by developers, I am sure.

Megashot and Flickr no longer take up time, so hopefully I should be able to get more stuff done on my website and blog.  I see the blogger suggests I try the new blogger... new this, new that... 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

 The robins usually find the holly berries and the thorn bush berries are ready on Christmas morning.  This year they were about 2 weeks early.  Climate change maybe?

On the 27th of December we took a walk to see the lights in Centennial Square.  A fantastic display.

Since Godaddy migrated us all to their new servers, I have not been able to get my page to work properly.  I am going to take the page down and hopefully get a refund.  I shall keep my domains for now and get Trevor or someone to transfer them to a Canadian company.  It seems I cannot keep up to all the new changes on everything.  And so, I should have more time for my blog, now.