Humor --
A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and says: "A beer please, and one for the road."
I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn't find any.
I went to a seafood disco last week...And pulled a mussel.
Dahlias in Alaska--who knew? I knew about the fireweed (4th picture) because a friend who loves Alaska sent me a postcard and I have tons of the stuff behind my house which means I'm always pulling it out around here. Of course I'm not doing that with views of snow capped mountains.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking zinnias in Alaska! But you're right, LynnM, those are dahlias. (Zinnias like a dryer environment than that looks like.) I have a friend who once sent me a postcard from Alaska of a grizzly bear leaning on a sign warning of grizzly bears past this point.
ReplyDeleteMy youngest brother and his wife (and my niece Maddie) moved to a town east of Anchorage. He and his wife will be teaching. He has loved Alaska since the first time he visited, and I am very glad he was able to make the choice to try living there :-}
ReplyDeleteAlison, if they are dahlias (and I think we're both right) those tubers would HAVE to be lifted, wouldn't they? I can't imagine they'd survive sustained frozen soil. That's a LOT of digging in spring.
ReplyDeleteI know I'm obsessing but I found this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alaskamastergardeners.org/Dahlias/Growing_Dahlias_in_Anchorage.html
Seems they're low on the list of Urban Moose Food. HAHAHAHAHAHA.