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April 4, 2018 at 9:00 am
(April 4, 2018 at 7:01 am)ignoramus Wrote: Kitty. Where are you? Beautiful landscape! We're all jealous now!
I'm here at work .. you can come by 
OOO YEAH, Costa Rica is just beautiful!! Maybe there is no historical monuments and things like that but nature is just unbelieveable, amazing!!! I didn't believe myself that I would ever see it all with my own eyes! 
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April 4, 2018 at 10:38 am
(April 4, 2018 at 7:22 am)Whateverist Wrote: WOW! I've always wanted to go to Costa Rica and now I want to go even more. Love those heliconias and those .. somethings too. 
Looks like you had just a great time. I used to be a fauna junky and wanted my own zoo, but that is terribly impractical and not great for the critters either. But plants are just as amazing in the their own way and depending on where you live and what you want to grow it isn't too hard to make you and the denizens of your garden happy. Unfortunately only a couple of heliconias can be grown in my area outside a hot house. But here are a couple I saw in Hawaii.
So go ... go, go. Yes, I think Costa Rica is the perfect place for you... The vegetation is very beautiful there and so abundant... The landscapes are simply unearthly or maybe just earthly but unbelievable earthly...?
The walking palm trees made a big impression on me..
and ...supposedly the oldest plant some kind of fern ...
and other beautiful flora...
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April 4, 2018 at 10:40 am
Everything about your pictures; landscape, flowers, you... all just absolutely stunning!
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April 4, 2018 at 10:53 am
(April 4, 2018 at 10:40 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: Everything about your pictures; landscape, flowers, you... all just absolutely stunning!
Thank you Mooney, you're benevolent, friendly and so cute  
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April 4, 2018 at 4:09 pm
(April 4, 2018 at 10:38 am)KittyAnn Wrote: (April 4, 2018 at 7:22 am)Whateverist Wrote: WOW! I've always wanted to go to Costa Rica and now I want to go even more. Love those heliconias and those .. somethings too.
Looks like you had just a great time. I used to be a fauna junky and wanted my own zoo, but that is terribly impractical and not great for the critters either. But plants are just as amazing in the their own way and depending on where you live and what you want to grow it isn't too hard to make you and the denizens of your garden happy. Unfortunately only a couple of heliconias can be grown in my area outside a hot house. But here are a couple I saw in Hawaii.
So go ... go, go. Yes, I think Costa Rica is the perfect place for you... The vegetation is very beautiful there and so abundant... The landscapes are simply unearthly or maybe just earthly but unbelievable earthly...?
The walking palm trees made a big impression on me..
and ...supposedly the oldest plant some kind of fern ...
and other beautiful flora...
You sure saw a lot of cool plants. I really liked the unusual ginger in the 9th picture under "other beautiful flora". Their flowers are so interesting sculpturally.
And ferns have definitely been around longer than flowering plants, though the latter is the dominant plant form nowadays. I noticed that fern in an earlier file. I like the textural effect.
When can we go?
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April 5, 2018 at 1:41 am
As promised... pics. Before and after.
So here's the before picture:
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I cut six inches off her hair. Got rid of a lot of split ends and dry, damaged hair:
I took this picture before I dried her hair for the next step.
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I did what is called a Peek-a-boo technique, where the hair is sectioned at the crown and pulled up. Everything below that area is lightened to a level 10 blonde in preparation for the color. Below you can see the blonde at the bottom five inches of hair:
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The final result is the hidden color or Peek-a-boo color. The picture shows her as it would look worn either up or down. In this instance, I used Kenra Neon Lights. We were going for "Lava hair" so I used neon fuchsia at the root, I blended neon orange and neon yellow for the mid section and then alternated between neon yellow and neon orange at the tips:
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A view from the side:
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And finally... The use of the Neon Lights is so that your hair can literally glow under a black light. This is the result:
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This was a lot of fun and she loves it! She can't wait to show it off at school tomorrow
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April 5, 2018 at 6:57 am
(April 4, 2018 at 5:48 am)KittyAnn Wrote: I've been trying to post holiday pics here from a month, but somehow I failed to do so.... so maybe now ...
here you have
...some flora
...some fauna
...some views
...and some something
later I'll make update....after cutting my hair, but I have to get used to myself first 
Fantastic nature ! just wow !!
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April 5, 2018 at 7:00 am
Tinker Bell fridge magnets are just wrong.
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April 5, 2018 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2018 at 7:59 am by Joods.)
Lol are you referring to my fridge?
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April 5, 2018 at 8:27 am
(April 5, 2018 at 7:59 am)Joods Wrote: Lol are you referring to my fridge?
Just checkin to see if you're paying attention and havin a little fun.
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