Plants We Grow update

by Leslie Cox; Wednesday; September 11, 2024

A while back, I noticed the photos in all the plant posts I looked at in my Plants We Grow under In the Garden on the Menu bar were not displaying properly. I tried deleting them and re-installing them, but that did not work. I then tried starting a new post and putting in all the information about the plant and adding their photos. There were problems with sentence formatting and photo positioning. Such frustrating problems that no matter what I did or how much I tried…nothing displayed on the website as it should have.

Very painful. My website designer had formatted such a lovely template for the Plants We Grow and it had been so easy to use. Initially. But then the updates started coming…and kept coming…and kept coming. You know how fast things change on the Internet front, Well, it seems that it only takes ten years, or less, for one’s carefully planned website to start dropping posts.

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Teaser Tuesday

by Leslie Cox; Tuesday; September 10, 2024

I took many photos of this Bombus vosnesenskii flying amongst these beautiful lacecap hydrangea flowers.
I was so sure most of the photos would have been stunning.

Nope! The only photo which turned out, at least not half bad, was this one of the bee’s bum! Oh darn.

Did you know?

by Leslie Cox; Sept. 9, 2024

Did you know…

… that the autumnal equinox causes biological changes in animals? The subtle decrease in the amount of daylight is a cue to animals in the Northern Hemisphere to begin preparing for the cold weather coming by taking in more food, migrating, or finding a place to hibernate.

And did you know that during the autumnal equinox, the sun crosses what is known as the celestial equator which is an imaginary line that runs from the equator out into space?