The Dolomites

[ranunculus]

Set One of Gallery Thirteen.....
13 1 MOUNTAIN TITLE STRIP.jpg
 13 2 MOUNTAIN TITLE STRIP.jpg
 13 3 ANDROSACE CUSHION.jpg
 13 4 ASTER ALPINUS.jpg
 13 5 Aster alpinus close.jpg
 13 6 VIA FERRATA BRIDGE UP HIGH.jpg
 13 7 BRIDGE LATTS MISSING.jpg
 13 8 BUTTERFLY ON BLOOM.jpg
 13 9 CAPTURING THE CIRSIUMS.jpg
 13 10 POTENTILLA NITIDA ROCK.jpg

[ranunculus]

Set Two of Gallery Thirteen....
 13 11 CATERPILLAR ON SALVIA.jpg
 13 12 CLEMATIS AT CINQUE TORRI.jpg
 13 13 CUSHION COMBINATION.jpg
 13 14 ERITRICHIUM OVER PORDOI PASS.jpg
 13 15 FLY ON AQUILEGIA.jpg
 13 16 GENTIANA ACAULIS CLOSE.jpg
 13 17 GENTIANA PUNCTATA.jpg
 13 18 GENTIANA PUNCTATA CLOSE.jpg
 13 19 GENTIANA VERNA SCENE.jpg
 13 20 SAPONARIA OCYMOIDES.jpg

[ranunculus]

Set Three of Gallery Thirteen....
13 21 GEUM ULTRA CLOSE.jpg
 13 22 SELECTING PHOTOGENIC GENTIANS.jpg
 13 23 IAN MCENERY PHOTOGRAPHING GENTIANA VERNA.jpg
 13 24 MOUNTAIN GARDEN FROM CHAIRLIFT.jpg
 13 25 Paris 2.jpg
 13 26 PHYSOPLEXIS COMOSA.jpg
 13 27 PORTA VESCOVA.jpg
 13 28 SOLDANELLA BLOOMS CLOSE.jpg
 13 29 THREATENING SKY.jpg
 13 30 TINY SCREE CUSHIONS.jpg

[ranunculus]

Fourth (and final) Set of Gallery Thirteen.....


You can all start celebrating now.....only one Gallery and a brief postscript to follow....then it's over to you Mr Mcenery!

13 31 NICE PULSATILLA VERNALIS.jpg
 13 32 PORDOI CABLE CAR STATION.jpg
 13 33 SOLDANELLA BLOOMS CLOSE UP.jpg
 13 34 SPOT THE CLIMBER.jpg
 13 35 SUNLIGHT AT CINQUE TORRI.jpg
 13 36 WELL MARKED HIKING TRAILS.jpg
 13 37 FROM CHAIRLIFT.jpg
 13 38 PIZ BOE.jpg
 13 39 RANGE OF PEAKS.jpg
 13 40 ROCKY AREA.jpg

[Lvandelft]

Cliff, after working outside today and a little tired, I opened the website just in time to see your beautiful, again !!, pictures. I do like it very much when you show some people, trying to make the most beautiful picture ever. Looking at these pics. I feel really at home!
But there are still some questions open( see quote)??
Thanks again.

Cliff, no gossip at all (untill now, but you never know. ), there seem to be an aunt Petunia in Harry Potter.
I heard my grandson some time ago talking about her with his friend. She seemed to be very cruel to Harry, her nephew.
My problem was that I could not follow you why you would change your name???

By the way, you showed in gall. 12. nr. 26 a Phyteuma, but did you know the dutch or german name?

[ranunculus]

Maggi.....it has just struck me that any surfers, lurkers or 'newbies' to alpine gardening might be misled by the general title of this entire posting, in so much as they may misinterpret 'Dolomites from early July' to mean the actual flowering season of all the plants depicted?
Would it be better perhaps to amend the wording?

Yours sincerely,
Damned Nuisance
Whitworth
Lancashire

My dear Luit,
Thanks once again for your very kind comments.  I was only joking (as is my general nature), when I suggested a name change to Petunia so that it would coincide with my possible relegation to the 'bedding plant' forum (also mentioned in the same posting)....I had no knowledge of characters in Harry Potter (being one of the only humans in existence who has seen neither film or written word about the errant bespectacled schoolboy).  In deference to your fine mailings I will henceforth revert back to Ranunculus.....

...And, in response to Mr Nicholson from Devon....I will see you in court....imagine the slur....shopping at TESCO'S!!!!!

[David Nicholson]

OK Cliff, profuse apologies, it was ASDA

[Lvandelft]

(being one of the only humans in existence who has seen neither film or written word about the errant bespectacled schoolboy). 

Nice words, Cliff. You are not the only, I'm with you! Ijust heard children talk about it and I am a good listener,
I hope.
Cheers

[ranunculus]

Apology accepted David ..... an understandable error!   Tesco is at least two miles further on.

(By the way, please don't let 'she who MUST be obeyed' hear this conversation....she believes I'm allergic to shop assistants, supermarket trolleys AND plastic carrier bags).

That's wizard Luit!

[Casalima]

Cliff, how could we be bored    More fantastic photographs!

I see you have discovered my secret - the person in my avatar is in fact my great-aunt  

Chloë

(PS lucky Luit, working outside - I'm stuck with freezer manuals, and other delightful translations ...)

[Lvandelft]

(PS lucky Luit, working outside - I'm stuck with freezer manuals, and other delightful translations ...)

Chloë, I'm a lucky homo horticolus and today we had 9 C., when it's colder you don't see me outside 

[Maggi Young]

Dear DN of Whitworth,
This is the old "Dolomites from early July" topic renamed as simply... The Dolomites, to accomodate photos from other seasons etc.
Best Wishes,
St. Margaret of Craigton

[ranunculus]

Many thanks St. Margaret....

Well, it's damp outside and there is little on the T.V., so let's post Gallery Fourteen....
1 Silene acaulis scene.jpg
 2 Pulsatilla vernalis close-up.jpg
 3 Salvia scene.jpg
 4 Vitaliana.jpg
 5 Dolomite cow.jpg
 6 Daphne & Collett's guests.jpg
 7 Pedicularis view.jpg
 8 Gentian meadow.jpg
 9 Sunlit eritrichium.jpg
 10 Globe orchid.jpg

[ranunculus]

Set Two of Gallery Fourteen...
11 Pulsatilla duo.jpg
 12 Primula.jpg
 13 Orobanche view.jpg
 14 Mountain mist over Arabba.jpg
 15 Orchid vista.jpg
 16 Campanula barbata close.jpg
 17 Flower head close.jpg
 18 Aquilegia atrata close.jpg
 19 Daphne close.jpg
 20 Soldanella scene.jpg

[ranunculus]

Set Three of Gallery Fourteen....
21 Cross in the mountains.jpg
 22 Clematis alpina scene 3.jpg
 23 Enormous daphne.jpg
 24 Long valley.jpg
 25 Guests - Spot Ian McEnery to right.jpg
 26 View of the peaks.jpg
 27 Vetch close fine image.jpg
 28 Primula minima mat.jpg
 29 Dolomite foal.jpg
 30 Campanulal barbata two blooms.jpg