Don't envy them.
It's warm yes.. but the sun here is a lot more brutal than up north.
Plus its also that hot at night. Which is awful.
We get a month in spring and fall where it's pleasant. Crisp, clear, warm, but not hot.
Three months of winter. Where is gets very dry and windy, with big humid bouts. And the temps suddenly drop into the 30s.
And the rest of the year it's just hot... all the time.

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You have a good point. Our temperature gradually rises through the day and even it it goes up to 100, it cools down at night where we are. It was different in Southern Ontario. There they have sticky heat waves that can last days and nights.

That sounds nice though... cool nights.
Oh how I wish...
Do you garden?

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I'm thinking about putting a maxillaria tenuifolia with the cyms.
Something tells me that it can handle a lot of light. Winter concerns me though.
Quad do you think?

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Yes, I love to garden. The climate is so different than what I was used to in Ontario, that it can be a challange at times. We didn't have flowers all winter long in Ontario though, and there are even hummingbirds during the winter on some parts of the island here. This winter was the mildest I've ever seen.

I would be very interested to talk gardens with you...
I'm working really hard on mine but its proving difficult.
Maybe that's better left to pm or the off topic section though.

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The pink ones look good.

They are lovely aren't they?



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A slightly better fish shot.

The shubunkin has completely lost its black colouring and its now just a comet.

I'm a little annoyed because I've got 2 solid red comets now.
But I can't exactly condemn it to a fish bowl by returning it now that it's been in such a large pond.

The rest of the goldfish I get will be special ordered from a breeder.

I just really wanted some life in the pond.

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That is a better photo. It's a shame that the shubunkin didn't keep it's colour. Sometimes they can also have blue on them. It's amazing how much fish can change. I had an orange koi that kept getting more white until it was all white.