2009-10-27 1218 hours. Welcome home, dear hearts, welcome home.
It looks like a good day to take a nap… Chilly, cool, overcast and ready to rain at any moment. Coffee ain’t a helping. Lolol I have wall to wall critters… zonked out and snoring mightily. Lolol Oopsie, make that it is raining.
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Is there anywhere that kudzu or its pesky relatives don’t grow? Tripped over the following yesterday…from Virginia: State agriculture officials today announced a quarantine on beach vitex, a woody plant from Asia found growing in Norfolk and recently discovered in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach.
The decision means the plant cannot be moved or sold in Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Accomack and Northampton counties on the Eastern Shore.
“It’s a step in the right direction,” said Cheryl Petticrew, a Sandbridge resident working to eradicate beach vitex.
Fast-growing beach vitex thrives on sand dunes and crowds out native species. People planted it because it's one of the few green plants that grows at the beach.
The green-leafed woody shrub with small purple flowers and pea-sized seeds has been found in 30 to 40 places in Sandbridge, mostly in the front yards of homes. It’s also found around Norfolk’s Willoughby Spit.
The restriction is considered temporary until the board of the state’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services approves a permanent measure on it at their December meeting, said Del. Barry Knight of Virginia Beach, who pushed for the quarantine.
The action does not address how to get rid of the plant but buys time to come up with a plan, said Lee Rosenberg, Norfolk’s environmental manager who heads a local beach vitex task force.
“If this wasn’t done, we could be going forward with eradication and people could still be buying it and planting it,” he said.
Read more in Tuesday’s edition of The Virginian-Pilot.
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I’ve been playing around with Photo section on my profile page… lolol I have no idea what I am doing but I am trying to set up a separate folder for each painting I do… from start to finish…. Each step… I think I have that part figured out. However, the camera and taking the pix is whole different story. Don’t you just hate it when the camera is smarter than you? Lolol
It’s a neat little cam but I can’t see the scene if I am outside shooting in daylite. I can see everything in the window when I am inside but the colors are too dark or too lite.
The Boss told me one time to use ambient lite inside. I’ve tried it…sometimes it works for me and sometimes it doesn’t! lolol I love definite maybe’s!
Anyway, I finished My Lady of the Flag II last nite…added darkened stars to the shadow side. Did second step on ML III… and did the rough draft (I do mean rough) for the yellow daisies…
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and last but not least, I started painting the frame to go with ML II.
Oh dear…I lied! Lolol the frame is for the Apple painting… Am I ‘fused” or what? Lolol Sorry bout that!

Let’s see here… Oh, KK scolded me for neglecting to mention CCC. Well, I must say that Chit Chat Chums has one of the longest running threads I’ve seen in a while…Hmmm… how do I describe it… a game whereby you take the first initial of the last name given and use that letter to start the first name of the next person to be added to the list… Sounds a lot more complicated than it really is…lolol otherwise I couldn’t do it.

There are about 4 or 5 regular contributors to this thread and sometimes the side comments are hilarious. And then sometimes, I just tickled at the idea of some of the names posted… try it… and join in the fun… lolol

Guess that’s it for now… Later all of mine…take care and go in safety always. Remember to do sumfin different and new each day… Keeps ya healthy or can drive ya nutz! Lolol gotcha all again!

Many hugs, much love and lots of lafter…. meems