When we got home from Dallas this evening, this is what I found in the backyard: Daffodils in a row: Peach tree in bloom And happy pansies
They are all lovely, but I like the pansies with the pretty faces best. It looks like somebody's been out with the paint brush.
What a lovely sight to be greeted with on your return home. I, too, love pansies and I see you even have some hyacinths in bloom.
Oh WTXDaddy those are just beautiful! I especially like your peach tree mine has very few blooms yours gives me something to look forward too!
cross Frank, No story behind the Celtic cross. I saw it for sale, liked it & bought it. I have a few others here & there too. As for a Celtic connection, my great-grandmother was named Daisy O'Malley. How's that?
Great pictures...I had a couple peach trees at the other house and the peaches were so much better than what you buy at the store... I love the pansies too, I have pansies stenciled on one of my room walls...
Gaelic I always felt, I should learn Gaelic, but from what I've seen of it, it looks pretty darn hard to learn. Most of me is German, with some English, Scottish, Irish & a few drops of Cherokee. My dad thinks, we may have Polish ancestry too. I already speak German & some Spanish. When I was in Ireland, Gaelic looked hard as heck. Do you speak Gaelic, Frank?
No I don't WTX. What is sad is that I learned it for 8 years in school but because there was no real reason to learn it (all you need is English) so it didn't sink in. There is quite a reemergence of interest throughout the whole of Ireland in the Irish language and many are joining courses and such (like my brother for example). If you need your fill of the Irish language then you can watch our national Irish speaking tv channel online at http://www.tg4.tv/
Ireland My wife & I went on a cruise around Europe in 2002. We loved Ireland. Our guide in Belfast was so funny! She told us, she actually thinks in Irish/Gaelic and tries to use it as much as possible. I think almost nobody speaks the Scottish forms of Gaelic anymore and I don't know about the Welsh. Ireland seems to me to have the best chance at really reviving the language. Of course, since English is so useful for everything & is so international these days, it'll probably never disappear entirely from ireland. I know nobody in the U.S., who speaks Gaelic. German, Spanish & Polish speakers, I can find.
