whaas, there are some considerations that only you can make here. Namely, what kind of soil are these divisions going into? If it's loose, moist, crumbly, fertile, this is all in your favor. If it's dry, hard, lumpy, etc., don't divide the geranium into it. You need to be sure to give the planted divisions a good mulch immediately after planting. If your weather conditions are even thinking about being dry, work your soil, remove the soil for planting, then WATER the hole thoroughly and let it soak in, then put the plant in the hole, backfill, mulch, and water thoroughly again. Irregardless, don't allow the soil around the plant to go bone dry. Monitor it carefully for a few days to get a feel for how often you need to supplement. I do not grow Jolly Bee, but I have divided Rozanne several times. She never ever likes it, but I have never lost a division. She always wilts badly for several days, but gradually perks up and blooms, though late. I have always divided her in spring, and of course, my climate is much different from yours. My gut tells me you can get away with doing it this fall (even now) if you fulfill all the above criteria, but if you cannot risk losing it, you might want to plant Jolly Bee as is and divide it in the spring. One more suggestion: If you go ahead and divide it now, it wouldn't hurt to put something over the divisions to provide some shade until they settle in. I have used cardboard boxes with the tops opened up with good results. Just a few days can make a big difference.

Hello all my Dear Friends, I've been trying to find the words to tell you how much your phone call meant to me the day of the swap. I can't really tell you other than to say a very humble "THANK YOU". You are my family and I have missed each of you so very much. David's dad died last Oct(05) then we stayed with his Mom 24/7 until she passed away on Sept 02, this year. This was acutally a good thing, his mom was so good to me. I became a first time Grandma on July 23 and I'm keeping the baby Thurs thru Sunday because his Mom and Dad both work those days and just can't afford to change jobs to get weekday jobs. They both work for WalMart's big distribution center> Lynn is an assistant Coach(manager in our terms) and Douglas is working on production and making such good money that they both plan on staying there forever. Of course we all know how fast a 23 year old can change their minds! They've both been there 3 years. Unfortunately, in our small town, there isn't a nursery that is open on the weekends, so Grandma is their only option right now. Not that I mind now that the weather is changing. I just hope we can work out something before next Spring or I'll have a baby on a leash while I work in my garden, Wonder if that's illegal??? Wonder how soon I can teach him to pull weeds, not plants??? Is child labor a no no??? I'm sure if you asked any teenager this day in time, they would tell you that it is! He's so precious, all smiles and coo's this weekend. I'm hopelessly lost in that smile. Joe the pictures are great!!I sure can tell that I missed such a good time. Jan, be sure to tell Jim thanks for the use of the phone. I know that you two are glad that canoe season is about over. Our trees are just now changing into their fall wardrobe and boy are they pretty. Joe do you have any pictures of "Fall" in your area?? Love to you all and I really do plan on coming in the Spring, so someone please bring me a great big Chocolate Cake! Love to you all and may God bless each of you with his loving Grace, Mona

"I'm so impressed. This has helped me a great deal. I would love to just verify one thing. You said Image Stabilization is possible thru the use of a special lens?" Yes, some lenses have it, some don't. Some don't matter as much. My 10-22 does not have it, and it gets photos as if it did. Each lens is different. I only have one lens with IS, the 28-135, but what it basically means is you can get clear shots at lower shutter speeds (NO BLURRING DUE CAMERA SHAKE BUT BLURRING IF YOU DIDN'T NAIL THE FOCUS RIGHT), down to like 1/10 sec that you could not without it. 1/60 a sec is about the limit handheld w/o IS, but some people are steady enough and/or use a monopod and can get 1/30 and still sharp. Monopod you can get down to around 1/10. Any lower than that and you need a tripod. When you look at the lineup of Canon lenses, it says IS on the description. That means it has image stabilization. With Nikon, I think it is VR. Means the same thing. IS is almost a must if you have a long zoom lens and want to shoot say birds closeup without a tripod. JoanMn made some good comments. "Shooting pics in RAW you need to make color corrections?" Not always. It just gives you a second chance to change exposure and white balance, also does color corrections if needed. Some are not needed. "So it's not a perfect picture just by pointing and shooting with RAW?" Not usually with me, but when you have more experience and know what settings and approach to use, you up your chances of getting a perfect photo out of the camera. That is the goal. RAW just gives you a better second chance. Post processing jpgs gives you a second chance with color, sharpening, contrast, other things but will not get back lost detail. It gives an otherwise blah photo more "punch". RAW can do that but sometimes the lost detail just isn't there. "You still have to make corrections?" Most people do on photos they display on the web, those who want perfection, here I think most are posting out out of the camera shots. At small sizes, it's not such a big deal but can be. If you want really nice prints, you should tweak most of your photos but you do not have to. At the minimum, you should straighten and sharpen them. Photos out of dslr cameras tend to be soft. A little sharpening makes them look better. I sharpened my white dogwood blossoms. You can tell the difference. I did not have to shoot RAW to do that, but did have to shoot RAW if the white balance was off (I liked it the way it was) and I lost some of the detail in the bright areas. With RAW, I got most of it back. You can't do that shooting in JPG. There may be other things about it I'm not up on yet that make it more advantageous. It can be a pain because it involves some more steps in post processing, but it is worth it to me on my nicer photos. Others I don't bother, like one you want to post on ebay, proofs, quick and dirty, etc. "The photo's are beautiful and the hands on monitor pic is great. If I only understood it. But, I'm learning a bit as I go." After I saw it explained about 10 times and saw examples people posted on another forum, can't name it here, rules, I began to see the advantages. Once I started doing it, it started making some sense and I'm comfortable with it now, but haven't reached expert status. I was looooooost at first. But my experience with my little point and shoot which had some advanced features helped a lot and in no time I was shooting in aperture priority, shutter priority, and doing some night fireworks shots full manual. If you do decide to go dslr, you can get some basic settings from people, shoot in program mode just like a point and shoot and grow into the advanced features at your own pace. Some of this is advanced, and you cannot possibly be expected to understand it. You will understand it more as you see it discussed and think it over. I inundated you with too much information, but if you are thinking about a Rebel XT, those are the possibilities. One very important thing I failed to mention is that with the low noise at high ISO on the XT and mine, you can take really, really nice photos indoors without a flash. Nikon isn't quite as good that way but excels in other ways. Sometimes you need a flash anyway because the available light is just not sufficient. You get to know by practicing what you can and cannot do. The big thing with some people are concert photos. If you get the XT or a Nikon, you are not allowed to use flash in some venues, sometimes no camera at all. If you are not allowed to use a flash but are allowed to take photos, you bump up the ISO way high (advantage of Canon, silky photos at high ISO, no noise until 1600 and 3200, amazing) and get photos you simply could not get any other way. Stunning ones by those who know what they are doing with just the right lens for that situation. I chose the white blossom photo because of the white highlights, there were others I could have used for an example. I shot a race today and I did not get my exposure right and did not shoot in RAW for the action shots won't go into why, shot all the stop action shots in sports mode. Thank heaven for Photoshop. The runners are too dark because the camera metered on the whole scene, the bright buildings in the morning sun and the runners were mostly shaded. I should have chosen a mode where I could use partial metering. Now I am going to have to use the shadow highlights tool to correct most of them, shot 595 photos. You can batch process, I don't know completely how to do that, so many things to learn yet, but as far as I am concerned, CS2 was worth it just for that one tool, shadow highlights which will fix most of the keepers for me (I actually got a bunch of duds I will toss) even though you can probably do it in other programs as well. That is going to be a lot of work and is an example where you color correct even though you didn't shoot in RAW. I shot a few in RAW where there wasn't so much motion. I should have taken some trial shots, read the lcd and histogram (you want a nice mountain touching both ends if you can get it, sometimes not possible, have to compromise) and used those numbers to go full manual or something, don't know yet but will find out. I can't see those little numbers that well for one thing on the lcd or in the viewfinder, and I am not expert enough to shoot full manual a whole series of shots. Some do. There are other ways around that, and I will try to get some answers as to what I should have done from the "pros" lol. If I was able to be any help to you, I'm happy for that. Kind of a hasty response; I've been up since 5:30, and it is getting hot. Days of it ahead yet according to forecast. As you move along, you will get some "aha" moments, that's what she was talking about. That's the way it's been with me. I need some more "ahas" myself lol.

need a pic.. for a good opinion .... it did it.. because it wanted to.. perhaps because it hates you .. lol .. any tree can be pruned ... opinions on how would be based on a pic ... but that will never get you past that it was planted too close to the garage ... eh??? .. many pine are future telephone poles ... it would also help to know where you are... and what kind of pine it is ... ken