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Hrmmm, thats a good idea Harry... i'll think about that.

Tony wrote:I was thinking since im not going to get snow anytime soon, I could just empty out all the tiny foam beads from my son's bean bag in the garden and stand way back when I take the shot.

I'd vote for you!

Tony wrote:I was thinking since im not going to get snow anytime soon, I could just empty out all the tiny foam beads from my son's bean bag in the garden and stand way back when I take the shot.

Heck Tony, anytime you want to see real snow your welcome to come and visit. I'll even let you make a snow angel in the frontyard

Bill,
You better be careful where you make that angel or your wife maybe picking spines out of your backside.
Chris

birdguy34 wrote:Bill,
You better be careful where you make that angel or your wife maybe picking spines out of your backside.
Chris

Yeah, after she laughed at me for awhile

ihc6480 wrote:
Heck Tony, anytime you want to see real snow your welcome to come and visit. I'll even let you make a snow angel in the frontyard

No thanks! Not in that front yard! Who knows whats lurkin under that snow!!!
If the prickely's dont get ya, you fall through the ice!

Tony wrote:

ihc6480 wrote:
Heck Tony, anytime you want to see real snow your welcome to come and visit. I'll even let you make a snow angel in the frontyard

No thanks! Not in that front yard! Who knows whats lurkin under that snow!!!
If the prickely's dont get ya, you fall through the ice!

How about a contest of your best picture taken during the contest week?

vlani wrote:How about a contest of your best picture taken during the contest week?

Sounds great! Any chance we can do that one in July or August?

When are we going to do "Creative Cacti" agian?

How about pictures of members greenhouses or places where they are kept

Lee wrote:How about pictures of members greenhouses or places where they are kept

sounds good, maybe with the caveat that you've voting on the best picture, not the biggest collection

Howabout the previous winner to come up with a new contest category (toot suite)

willpower wrote: Howabout the previous winner to come up with a new contest category (toot suite)

Interesting thought. Almost be better to have the one with least votes come up with it. Kind of like the losing team gets first pick for new players.

Of course there are usually several with zero votes.

my thoughts .........

competitions should include as many members as possible ............ this would rule out subjects like

cacti in the wild (excludes any country not in the america's )

cacti grown in the ground (excludes most of Europe)

images of rare genera (excludes most members)

a good subject should allow most members on most continents to look through their database of images to find a relevant image or go to their collection and take a suitable image to enter

just my thoughts ...............

hob wrote:my thoughts .........

competitions should include as many members as possible ............ this would rule out subjects like

cacti in the wild (excludes any country not in the america's )
......

I agree, but I was thinking about this 'in the wild' thing. If you said 'in it's natural habitat' instead then us old worlders would be able to offer picutres of culitvars, artificial hybrids etc (and M zeilmanniana in a garden centre ) since that is the only habitat they occurr in.