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That's really beautiful. I'm assuming you took these pictures yourself?

 

I took some last minute ones on the dying vines. Some of them came out very nice. I've been busy drying out the seeds and give them to others who live here, and to just some friends who might want to plant a sunflower for me next Spring.

 

All the flower pictures I post are taken by either myself or my husband in our pollinator gardens, which we like to plant up in all the awkward parts of our property that aren't suitable for veg gardens or more formal landscaping. Growing pollinator-friendly plants has become an important and meaningful part of my year.

 

I didn't get many sunflowers this year but here are some good ones from a few years ago:

I have already planned a space for sunflowers next year for you :hug2:

I almost always prefer live Rush to studio Rush. Most notable exception to that is The Spirit Of Radio.

"Beginnings" by Chicago, though the vocal repetition in that song is far less a sin than its endless drum coda.

I wasn't fussed by the absence of Facebook itself, but I was highly unsettled when I realised how many people I talk to every day on Facebook messenger programmes.

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That's absolutely beautiful. Such a cute little diligent bee happily working away.

 

I had a honey bee on one of the sunflowers but yellow on yellow didn't do well. And I am not a good photographer, even though the phone I have is supposed to be renowned for the great pictures it takes. You can barely see the bee.

 

I love bees and grow many bee-friendly plants around my house. The secret to taking a really good picture of a bee in a flower is...take a zillion shots and hope the bee-buddy is in focus in one of them! Repeat until successful :lol:

Oops, sorry!

Lorraine, thank you for sharing your Hoboken memories. If you have any other NYC or New Jersey memories I'd love to hear them. I lived in NYC and NJ in the 60s and 70s but I was only little.

Maybe a little off topic, but I'm going to say it anyway.

 

One of the very few things I hate about Rush doesn't have anything to do with style, music or lyrics.

 

What I do hate is the obvious money grab (at least it's obvious to me) that Rush has been doing for the last decade or more.

 

Look, Rush is touring, let's buy outrageously priced tickets! (cha-ching!)

 

Let's buy some overpriced merchandise! (cha-ching!)

 

Let's record a DVD of the album and sell bunches of them! (cha-ching!)

 

Let's do all of this at least every 2 years! (cha-ching!)

 

I got to the point where I eventually stopped after paying $40 for the privelege of sitting on the grass in the back to see this band, however great they were.

 

I loved any truly new material that came out from them (Clockwork Angels), but the endless touring, merchandising and DVD marketing just grated against me.

 

It was overkill....JMO.

 

For a different take on that subject, I missed out on Rush when I was a teenager. Then I became a fan in my 40s and count myself very lucky that I made it in time for their late-career surge. I saw Rush live as often as I could between 2007 and 2015, loved every single one of those gigs and never regretted a penny spent on them. I'm deeply thankful they released concert videos and recordings from each of those tours because when I watch them they bring back happy memories of some of the best times I've had in my life. What grated on you continues to provide me with an on-demand source of joy and comfort, an excellent return on money long since spent and forgotten.

 

Thank you, :rush: :wub:

 

 

 

Wot you reckon?

Let’s revisit a thread you made yourself, Lorraine! It’s chock full of goodies to smile over. http://www.therushfo...-fun-70s-songs/

I'm glad you're still able to go to church.

It's my only bright spot of the week. I was going to go a few days during the week as well, but I cannot move as fast as I used to, and it takes me a long time to get myself together, so the morning Mass is out. The other Mass they have around noon isn't good because hospice nurses, social workers, chaplains, doctors like to come, for whatever reason, right around 11:30, or 1.

 

All I do is pray all day really. I've lost interest in most everything else. I love to read, but my eyes just can't stay open long enough to read more than a paragraph or two.

 

It's okay though. I lay on the couch and look at my gorgeous sunflowers with Tulora on my lap. The days have been sunny and on the warm side. I think about how grateful I am for all the people I've known in my life, and how grateful I am to Hospice, and how fortunate I am to have found the great seniors' place we live in.

 

Today two very kind ladies brought us lunch. One even brought along a lovely potted plant. Both were obviously prepared with care and love, not just thrown together as some do. She even made a treat of home-made brownies for dessert. How grateful I am to them for their kindness. With so little kindness around anymore, I do so appreciate it when I am the recipient of it.

 

I am very peaceful, and my heart is, believe it or not, full of joy.

 

I'm finally going Home. :)

 

Lorraine, that's beautiful, and I am glad that you have those peaceful feelings. :hug2:

 

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Updated link. Come say Hi!

 

https://discord.gg/97BtSzSCkN

Hello?

Lorraine wanted these photos posted- We finally get to meet her! The first one is Lorraine, and the second one is Lorraine with her two "guardian angels". She has the most beautiful smile, as I have long suspected. :heart:

 

 

 

Lorraine, it’s so good to “see” you! The Mona Lisa as your avatar suits you.

Hi everyone,

 

Me over here still missing the forum chat room, set up a Discord server in the hopes that there are still people here who would enjoy live real-time chat. Those of us who love it love it a lot! Please come check it out.

 

https://discord.gg/ruQQNy8T

Sending love, grief for your pain, prayers for your freedom from that pain, whatever form that takes :hug2:

I tinged proudly at the Cinema Strangiato screening last week :yes:

Good guy Geddy...

 

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I don't know about you, but I well up with pride when seeing how often the boys are honored for their philanthropy.

 

Agreed! After having been disillusioned by so many rock’n’roll musicians over the years, I always love seeing that the ones who mean the most to me have turned out to be such truly decent guys.

I loved Rand's novels as epic storytelling when I was younger. I loved the message of artistic freedom and excellence in The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged impressed me as a huge achievement because it broke every rule of character building in fiction but still managed to be compelling. But I was truly gobsmacked when I found out years later that anyone took Objectivism seriously as any kind of viable philosophy by which to live life in the real world.

 

Still, though, I believed plenty of wacky things when I was younger. I'm glad I never proclaimed them on a great artistic work, but if I can forgive myself for having once been young and unformed, I can certainly forgive Neil :lol: