Miranda's garden journal

[Miranda]

I try to write one once a month, sometimes more often depending on what's happening. It's just me waffling on about plants, and what I think about them, along with some nice photos. It's here: http://www.wildchicken.com/nature/garden/nature_100_gj.htm

[sue1002]

I love reading your journal Miranda and keep checking regularly to see when you've updated it.

[Miranda]

I've put a new one up. It's rather long and a bit ranty, but I think the subject is interesting.

http://www.wildchicken.com/nature/garden/nature_100_gj.htm

[Neil Bromhall]

Miranda,
I often pop in to your web site.
It's fabulous
You've put so much work in to it. I take my hat off to you.
It looks like we both enjoy and make use our photography on our sites.
I'm amazed and extremely grateful that you have the time to contribute so much to this forum as well.
Long may it last and thank you.
Best wishes
Neil

[Miranda]

Thank you, Neil, that's very generous of you to say such kind words. I really must put up a new journal but I've been struggling to come up with something to write about over this winter.

Thing is, I was always talkative (it was always mentioned on my school reports - 'very chatty') and I like discussing plants and gardening. I could talk about them all day long and it's good to find a friendly place like this, where other people enjoy the same subject. This forum has a good feel to it and I like the people here.

[Neil Bromhall]

It's good to have a passion about a subject and gardening is such a vast and interesting subject. You are always learning.
It's the people that make a Forum and I'm grateful that we have such a nice bunch of people in here.
I would like to attract more people to join us but I'm more than happy with quality rather than quantity.
As you'll have noticed, I enjoy photography and like sharing my pictures with others so this Forum is a great place to do this.
It's shame that spammers also like this forum, but between us we're getting rid of them.
Thanks again
Neil

[Miranda]

I can see that you enjoy photography as well, Neil. It's such a totally absorbing activity, isn't it? I find I can lose myself for hours, just walking in the woods or in a garden, examining flowers and landscapes from all different angles and then taking pictures of them. Sometimes I become aware of my inner voice which is quietly chattering away to itself about colours, textures, light and so on.

I've wondered if the spammers are running some sort of competition to see how long their threads last.

[digger]

Well this is a really friendly forum,here I must confess that i have your website in my favourites Miranda along with this one, sometimes though when I read your journal it's a bit strange. Because I know you I feel like I am sneaking into reading one of my mates diaries?. I know it shouldn't feel like that but sometimes it does,probably because we communicate on here and e mail,so the journal has a feeling of being private, and I must also confess that I have some of your pictures as backgrouns the ones of poppies in the fields are gorgeous,just makes me think of summer.

[Miranda]

Because I know you I feel like I am sneaking into reading one of my mates diaries?

Really? I wonder if anyone else I know feels that way? I always tell my dad and he reads it immediately and if there are any typos he writes to me to tell me what I've done, saying 'Quick, put it right before someone sees!'. Sometimes he gives me points out of ten. Anyway, you're not intruding one bit, digger, I'm glad to know that someone else reads it :)

My current desktop is the summer fields one, though I did have the poppies for a while. The interesting thing with providing desktop pictures is seeing which ones get downloaded. I've noticed over the past two or three years that people download pictures to go with the season - all except for that field of red poppies, which has been downloaded more than any of the others.

[sue1002]

Really? I wonder if anyone else I know feels that way?

I hadn't thought of it that way Miranda, I enjoy reading your journal and look forward to each new entry.

I've always had the same picture on my desktop, it's one of my little girl that was taken when she was two, it's one of the best pictures the old camera took and when you see it on the screen, her eyes are looking at you and it doesn't matter what angle you view it from, she is always watching you.