Open Thread……………………………………………..Tuesday, May 13

Dragon Tongue
Dragon Tongue

It’s that time again—Iris Season.  People love them or hate them.  I got my main iris garden off someone’s trash pile many years ago.  They have served me well, even though they aren’t the fancy kind.

You have to be careful with fancy iris, especially if you order collections of iris.  If you plant the near each other they will blend.  I thought this was BS when I first heard it, until I put in my fancy Schreiner iris.  They blended.

I have proof from pictures that the dominant colors took over the more recessive colors.  I guess that’s what happens with these hybrids.  I am not even sure I still have Dragon Tongue in my garden.

How about Denver?  Is winter really over?

Michael Sam: The new frontier?

michael sam

Washingtonpost.com:

 

 ESPN’s cameras were in place Saturday when St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher called Sam at his agent’s house in San Diego to tell the former University of Missouri defensive lineman that they had selected him in the seventh and last round of the draft.

What the cameras caught next was something remarkable — and certainly rarely seen on Disney-owned ESPN: a tearful Sam receiving congratulations from his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, complete with a kiss between the two men.

Congratulatory kisses are common in sports, although they usually occur between husbands and wives or boyfriends and girlfriends. This one drew alternating waves of shock, anger and gratitude from around the Twittersphere and elsewhere after ESPN aired it, on a tape-delayed basis, at 6:40 p.m. EST Saturday followed quickly by a replay on the NFL Network.
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