identify this flower -- see three new kitten shots -- and an old photo of

[bertha katzenengel]

yours truly that i just found

flower: my MIL said it's trumpet honeysuckle, but it doesn't look exactly like photos of trumpet honeysuckle that i've found:

Alice's Honeysuckle:


Ringtail's new kittens. There are five: one black and four tabbies -- two torties, one sandy, and one gray:






(photo above -- taken from reflection in (double-glazed) sun room door)

And the old photo of yours truly -- I'm guessing it's 24 years old:

[Mutley]

1. Are the flowers bleeding hearts?

I can juggle too, sort of. :P

[bertha katzenengel]

3. hmm... google images... nope: these are bleeding hearts:

see... we're right next to each other! see? ;)

[Mutley]

5. Yeah, that makes more sense looking at the picture

of the bleeding hearts. But I've never seen honeysuckle like that. Pretty.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Bertha!

Wow, what an assortment of pictures!

I love the flower, and have NO idea what it is! But it's beautiful...

And the kitties! How lucky they are to be growing up in your home.....

I love the intense look of concentration on your face while juggling!

I could NOT juggle even if my life depended on it!

Thanks for sharing this diverse bunch of pics!

:loveya: :hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

4. glad you enjoy them

Al Martinez! Love reading his column on line. Miss reading it on newsprint. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. He is a sweetheart!

It was a really fun event.......:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

7. i love book fairs

been a long time since i could go to one

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. ....

I wish you could have been at this one......:hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

9. me too

sigh

[Dangerously Amused]

10. Do the flowers grow on a vine or on stems?

It does kind of look like one of my trumpet honeysuckles... but only kind of...


Cute kitties and cuter you! What are you looking at though? It there a fourth orange?



:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

12. don't know (i am a dunce) -- a vine, i think? here's another photo

Can you tell?

In the juggling photo i'm just looking nowhere. i can't look at the objects i'm juggling; i guess i see them all peripherally. (hint: it's also how i beat the crap out of everyone else at "whack-a-mole" at chuck e. cheese . . . ;))

[Dangerously Amused]

16. "Bertha The Whack-A-Mole Queen"

:rofl:

I love it!



I still can't tell for sure, but it sounds like the poster below is far more educated in this area than I, so I shall defer.


:)

[bertha katzenengel]

17. :blink:

:rofl: i like it too. maybe THAT'S where my career is . . . i can travel the country as the whack-a-mole queen . . .

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. And now we have the answer to the burning question

"Yes... but can she juggle?"

[bertha katzenengel]

14. Oh, I can cook, too!

on top of the rest
my seafood's the best in town
and I can cook, too
my fish can't be beat
my sugar's the sweetest around
i'm a man's ideal of a perfect meal
right down to the demitasse (a cuppa java!)
i'm a pot of joy for a hungry boy
baby, i'm cookin' with gas
oh, I'm a gumdrop, a sweet lollipop
a brook trout right out of the brook,
and what's more, baby, i can cook!

from "On the Town" - one of my favorites Broadway tunes

:hi:

You're cute, O.R. :hug:

[Bear down under]

13. It is a honeysuckle

a cultivar of Lonicera caprifolium, but which one is hard to say. There are quite a few of them, and they not only tend to look alike, their names are rather confused. Try googling Lonicera and see what you come up with.

The kitten is cute, BTW

[bertha katzenengel]

15. Thank you, BDO. Edit: it is Lonicera periclymenum!

I found it on this page http://www.gcnursery.co.uk/pics/top5.html out of the UK.

:hi:

[pitohui]

18. yeah i was abt to say, that ain't no trumpet honeysuckle i ever saw

trumpet honeysuckle is L. sempervirens and it's everywhere in this yard, it would cover the house if i let it

[bertha katzenengel]

19. ooh, those are the ones we used to pick and suck the sugar out of!

Delish!

And sometimes we wound up eating ants. :P

[Heidi]

20. Welcome to DU!

:hi: