Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

Maya2 - you'd fit in very comfortably in Western MA!  Also,  you sound like me

River Rat - I love, love Kate Wolf.  She died terribly young - years ago.  I love PBS, lived in London for years, and still miss the great telly!  And their sense of humor.  Monty Python, Black Books ( which is on PBS here now) and especially that the women actors look like real human beings as they get older!

SoCalLisa, is NCIS a series that you need to watch all the shows in sequence in order to enjoy it or do you think that each episode stands alone and someone could watch a show here and there?

Just butting in for a minute, cause I gotta go. But someone mentioned joni Mitchell - yes , I loved her (when I used to listen - heartbroken, crying, splitting up with my bf, listening to Miles of Aisles and in particular "A Case of You") - you know she is Canadian, so is Neil Young, though both went to the US long ago, but we LOVE them and consider them Canadian still.

Last summer Neil Young was on tour in Canada, and we went, and the place was sold out, everybody standing & whistling & singing, and he played All Along the Watchtower for an encore. Now THAT was cool! You have to have guts to do that! He looked like a shuffling bearded bear playing a guitar, and at the end, actually did a "V" sign..we didn't smoke up for the event but I'm sure many others did - LOL Ah - trips down memory lane. ps I'm 63. and Maya - i don't "belong" on very many threads, either, that's why I like it here.

Metta to all

flannelette: Maya - i don't "belong" on very many threads, either, that's why I like it here.

Yes, people are more accepting here. I agree. Even though a large percentage of couples are no longer having children, it wasn't that way when I got married. It was always the first thing anyone asked in the States, "How many kids do you have?" It was just assumed that, of course, you had them. And when I said no we don't, it's like the only thing they could think of to say was something unkind.

I still like CSN&Y and Mitchell. Wise before their time. Carly Simon is my favourite singer with Cher coming in second. Other bands I like: Stones, Who, and Queen (sadly the lead singer died).

The Lilac and the Apple Tree = THE BEST, BEST, BEST - makes me want to turn off the BBC news I'm listening to on NPR - and listen to it instead.

 Yes, Downton Abbey was a great success here   One of my friends, remarking that it was quite
"raunchy" in places - said it "sure wasn't Upstairs Downstairs."  We both laughed!  Remake of Upstairs Downstairs is being shown on our PBS next month, still love the original.  Also, Brideshead Revisited.  I lived in London for years, really loved their "telly."

Arlene,

I smiled when I read your post -found myself spitting out "pooh, poof pooh" to get rid of the same bad taste.  Her theory of Objectivism was so removed from the general warm SPIRIT of all we had been sharing.  I think it was just an aberration, and is cleared out now.  

It is almost Spring.  Giggle, giggle, we're supposed to be getting a "major" storm in the next few days.  Reporters won't even take a guess at the snow totals, yet.  Time to hunker down with tea, and my painting.  Hope everybody else is at least seeing some crocus!  Maybe a daffodil or two? 

Lisa, thanks I'm getting excited at the promise of spring.  So far only my snow drops are in bloom but my daffodils are about 3" above ground now and my helleborus orientalis looks like it will be blooming soon.

Well, I don't have many blooms around right now but I do get to see a deer herd most days.  I wish I could get close enough to get a pic for you but there's no good place to get off the road right there.  Maybe when the ground dries a bit I can walk in from further out.

flanette, love those blooms

I can tell no one lives near me in Western MA, where we're expecting a "winter nor'easter' - yup, more than a foot of very wet, heavy snow - we've been warnd to expect power outages cuz of wetness/heaviness of snow on April 1.  The mind ( what's left of it after this winter) boggles!

I hate to say it but it is 85 , blue skies, and beautiful here...

saw these on the way home from the post office this morning

We'd kill for a little snow here. We have had virtually none in March. Our average is 18 inches. Can you say "fire danger"??

odd weather, for sure, ladies.. here, in Ft. Laud.(close) we ALREADY have drought warnings, per watering.. i have a pretty good system i installed when we moved here, so we're ok.. most of my flowers made it thru the winter, and spring is def. here.   yesterday, the first Plumeria bloomed!!! my garden is 90% grown for butterflies, and i think we'll have many this year.. so sorry for you ladies worrying about brush fires. my sister in Daytona always gets one near her house, every yesr. they're already warning about flinging cigarettes on the major roads.. last yr. after the 1st one, they had an asorist. caught him. an older teernager mad at his mother! CAN you imagine?!!    be well.       3jays

I love plumeria too..when I smell it I think of Hawaii

The Plumeria sounds to me like our Frangipanni, a very fragrant summer flowering tree that grows like a weed here.

Does it have white petalled flowers that graduate to yellow in the centre? We also have some deep pink varieties which were generated by plant nursery men.

Sheila.