What is This?

Fruit tree ID please

2011-06-06T03:27:00.000-07:00

Three years ago, Bea Marshall planted the pip of a fruit she had never had before. It grew, and has survived Sheffield's winters, but she doesn't know what it is.

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"A little man bought him a big bass drum..."

2011-01-25T11:25:00.000-08:00

I came looking for an answer I had received and it wasn't here (so it will be now). I found it on the lyrics game, when the word was "drum": http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com/2010/02/drum.html

(the default/still picture there is scary; sorry)

MamaDonna said....
HE got all his children little snare drums-Boom-tidera-da-boom!
And they'd practice as soon as they'd finished their sums.
Boom-tidera-da-boom. (Second verse from song/rhyme entitled A Family Drum Corps by Malcolm Douglas) p.s. The 1st verse is the song your Papaw used to sing. I found it on Google Book search [I linked to the very page. —Sandra].

February 23, 2010 11:35 AM
Sandra Dodd said...
THANK YOU!!! I had searched for it years ago but hadn't thought to do it again. Thank you, thank you!

Odd bug, flies, four legs?

2010-10-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

This bug looked like a mercedes emblem or peace sign, in a way, at first. Seems only to have four legs. Disguised as tree parts, but flies. Anyone know what it is? Holly saw it first. It was at our house in Albuquerque.

Vine Identification, please

2010-10-20T15:57:00.000-07:00

The vine can be freestanding or it can twine. The flowers are pinky purple. (Ignore ducks and morning glories in the background.) Please identify:

World War II insignia

2010-08-31T20:30:00.000-07:00

These were in a little box marked "Probably Kirby's," in handwriting I don't recognize. It was passed on by one of my aunts.

I only recognize tech corporal and the sergeant's stripes. Can anyone name the others? I'm not positive they're all my dad's, but I know he worked with trucks and jeeps, and was a sergeant when he left the service.

Thanks for any help!

Mushroom ID, please

2010-07-02T12:09:00.000-07:00

This was in Albuquerque. I showed this to Holly, who is staying near Montreal (Saint Lazare, Quebec) and she said there was one like it last week in their back yard. "It's hollow," she said. "Break it open."

Sure enough, the stem is like the lightest closed-cell foam, and it's hollow. The images below are in the order of
Probably opened yesterday; shrunk back down; Current; Still hasn't sprung up from the ground:

Flower ID, please

2010-04-07T17:55:00.000-07:00

Can anyone identify this? It's in South Carolina, at Katherine's house. :-)

Ivy species, or common name?

2009-05-10T18:30:00.000-07:00

Can anyone identify this ivy?

Since I was a teenager, I've looked for more of the same ivy, to find out what it's name is, but I've never seen any. I never pass an ivy stand in a store without scanning for this ivy. None. I'm hoping someone here can identify it. Each time I visited my older female relatives in the 60's or 70's, they would tell me "Look, here's your ivy." So all those years it was "my ivy," and my memories had all to do with my mother and grandmother.