NetCELL Pics - Snowguy

One thing I liked to do while in Italy was examine construction techniques & materials used a couple millenia or more ago. Like thin "Roman Bricks" in a lot iof instances, to create columns, arches, etc. Here is one example, with parging removes.

The Colosseo on a full moon night. "La Bella Luna!"

This is the Hotel Spitzweg, in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. It's actually a 500 year old house that later became a m icro-brewery and in the 20th Century became a hotel

This is the Lady Carolyn, enjoying an apple, orange, cookies and some water outside an exotic cafe in Trier (Roma Secunda or the Second Rome)

This is actually Rudesheim, on the Rhine (Mis-labeled below and Noerdlingen. Too much going on and limited Internet access as a result.

Lady Carolyn in the Medieval village of Noerdlingen on the Rhine River (chimney sweep)

Germany. The POorta Nigra from Roman times, in Trier ("Roma Secunda" or the Second Rome.)

Sky Pumpkin, My Bad on other pic. While I selected the correct pic, the system chose instead the first pic in the album. This is the original, daddy one.

Sky Pumpkin Jr.; started out way after Sky Pumpkin, but is fast catching up in size. Not even started to to turn orange yet.

"Sky Pumpkin" My pumpkin patch kinda too over my blue berry bushes, and to date 3 are growing about 6 feet high. Here's one with a couple companion pieces to show perspective.

Rat-eating plant (Not a rat eating a plant)

Shopping Carts Bloom in the Spring

Ix might like this pic

So, barring surgical sutures, I used black duct tape. Perhaps it's Gaffer tape? She put on five more pounds too fast... too much rain, so I guess it had to happen.

Audrey, my omnivorous pumpkin, split today, at the blossom end. So I had to try a repair job

My biggest "volunteer" pumpkin. 35+ pounds in July could mean 100 pounds