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Terri Webster Schrandt

The Flower Hour #19: Almond Tree Blossoms

For the Flower Hour, share your images of flowers, gardens, fields of flowers, seasonal leaves and plants, fungus, algae, cacti, blossoms, berries, and wildflowers. Bouquets and silk/faux flowers are welcome.

Remembering February in Sacramento with the blooming of Almond trees!

Spring brings clouds of blossoms

Almond trees bloom from mid-February to Mid-March in California, reminding us that spring is near!

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Almond Tree Blossoms

Sharing for Johnbo’s Cellpic Sunday.

There are no specific themes for the Flower Hour, but please use your own photography. And you have all week to link to this post.

New to The Flower Hour photo challenge? Please check out my page for more information! I encourage “double-dipping” with other blog challenges if you do not want to create a separate post.

“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

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  4. Hi Terri – for some reason, your Flower Hour post today showed up in my Notifications area, but not in Reader, nor on your site. Maybe something weird with WP … maybe my WP? Maybe it was supposed to publish Tuesday? Anyway, I can’t comment on it, so I’ll comment here on your last Flower Hour post if that’s okay.

    “Enjoy your stay in the sun and fun Terri! I like the cacti – they make me feel warmer looking at them. I was surprised to find out a few years ago that a Prickly Pear Cactus is very resilient and can overwinter outside in SE Michigan and come back just as hardy!”

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    • I’m working on my laptop and the Flower Hour post for Tuesday posted without giving me the chance to scheduled it. I recalled it back, but it still sent emails 🙄

      Not you, WP schedule glitch. It should post on Tuesday. Funny you should mention prickly pear cacti, I’m sharing one this week, fresh from Arizona!

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      • Terri, I saw it in my e-mail today – I wonder why it went to Notifications? I only have your posts going there so I know when you post on Sundays to add the link and/or add my link to Flower Hour. I go there before Reader.

        So, I always set the date/time for my post as soon as I type the title, before I type anything else, a hint I learned from Hugh Roberts long ago. Your scheduling glitch is similar to something that happened to me two or three times last week. I typed my comment, went to proofread it and then press “send”. I got “duplicate comment” which could not be. That happens off and on, so I always just change the wording which usually works, so I did that and pressed “send” – it happened again. So just for the heck of it, I went to the blog site and there was my comment from five minutes earlier. So that is a glitch like what happened to you. WP sends before you press “send” – yikes! I wondered why you opted to post Sunday. I’ve never had prickly pear cactus before – how does it taste?

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      • Thanks for reminding me I need to update my laptop. I suspect that’s why it published Sunday, when I attempted to schedule it for Tuesday. I got an email too, which I deleted. My WP admin page has the post scheduled on the proper date, but not before it glitches. Usually, when I select publish, I have the option to select the date/time, but it went straight to publish. Ergg. No telling what’s going on with comments!

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      • Craziness abounds it seems. I will dig out my comment and re-comment tomorrow. And I just read Hugh Roberts’ post about Anonymous. I don’t think I’ve had that problem before. I just had a long chat session with Malwarebytes as it won’t allow me to access Debbie (Doglady’s Den) site half the time – it deems it unsafe though I’ve whitelisted it several times. So, I’ll see what they say. I had many screenshots I’ve saved the past few months to back up my complaint.

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