colors

How to...Paint the exterior of your House

The first thing is to choose the best quality and your choice of color for the job.
Most brands of paint come in a choice of quality, finishes and many colors.

Exterior paint finishes:

Flat - used mostly for shingles, wood lap siding, masonry and bricks

Satin - great for vinyl and aluminum siding and has a slight shiny sheen

read more

TEXAS WILDFLOWERS

The saying goes “April showers bring May flowers.” I guess no one bothered to tell that to the wildflowers here in Central Texas. Starting in early March the first bluebonnets start to bloom.

Bluebonnet up close and personnel.

read more

No one can imagine a world sans colors, a world so monotonous and dull. Colors gives light to life, life to nature and express one’s emotions and moods. The greatest painter ever born is the nature itself. Colors can speak and you know the way it expresses the different moods of the nature, the spring, the autumn, the summer so varied and different.

Nature has used the colors with all imaginations in making the flowers. No one not even the greatest painter can make such wonderful combinations like flower colors so unique and different. You can never see any similarity in 2 different varieties. The reason- they blend so well with the stem, and the texture of the flowers that you cannot separate them from the flowers! It is not the idea of this small write up to go into the details of color combinations or color mixing, but only to attempt to convey a few simple tips to select flowers that would convey your soft emotions in the most natural way. Do you know colors have different meaning and if you select the wrong type of flowers for a very special occasion not only the gift may not convey your language, But it may also give an altogether different message, a message you never wanted to communicate.

read more

I am having some luck with my gardening this year and I didn't have to plant the rose bush since it has been there a while....I just love roses and now I wish I clipped some roses off the bush since they have mostly whithered now...

I belong to a gardening forum and they have blogs there too and I also read other gardening blogs on the Internet and I happen upon this one blog located at flowershop.com .

read more

It's cold here today, so I dressed for the elements, throwing on comfortable, worn jeans, a heavy dark blue sweater, well broken-in combat boots, and my Belgian army coat. I didn't wear a tie, mainly because I don't own one and the concept puzzles me.

My girlfriend, who works as a manager in a fairly posh department store, was pointing out ties on a television program the other day. She wanted me to guess their costs and my answer was always like Rain Man, "About a hundred dollars." To my surprise, I wasn't far off. One hundred dollars for this "item?" I could be a land baron in Costa Rica for one hundred dollars.

read more

This hits closer to home than you think ...

FUCHSIA, n. A popular flower; a popular color once owned by the flower, but then the breeders got their talons on the plant, so now, few Fuchsias are fuchsia. The pronunciation “few-sha" disses the 18th century German botanist (Leonhard Fuchs) for whom the flower is named. The word is properly pronounced with the “u" short and the “ch" as “k". No, it doesn’t - it needs hummingbirds, not you. The seller’s price might, if you paid it.

read more