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Wild violets conspiring.Related content
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Thank you, I'm happy you like!
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Thanks, Ginny. I love these simple flowers! There are so many things in bloom, and to me, they're all pretty.
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I know what you mean. I will go out after while and see if I can get a good pic of some little tiny flowers. They are a pale periwinkle blue with a touch of yellow in the center. Their little stems are so tiny you can barely see them.
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I think I know what you mean...they're only about 1/4" in diameter and grow no taller than an inch. We have them up here in VA; it's amazing how pretty (and teeny) they are!
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I looked for some but didn't see any. I think they like weather colder than it is now.
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I think they've come and gone here, too. Now I just see the stems and leaves, and they're not so pretty.
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i thought i had violets in my garden but they dont look like these maybe I dont have violets after all..
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I've got them all over my lawn; they come up every year. I hate to mow them down, but sooner or later, I've got to. The grass gets way too tall! These violets were taken on someone else's lawn, though; I don't think I have the pale purple variety.
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in the lawn..can you transplant them?............
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I could, yes. They could be moved somewhere else, but I don't want to dig around too much (achy back). They will bloom again, even though I cut of their little heads in the meantime.
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achy back, not good...........you can also wait till they go to seed and then get those and plant them
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Often, the birds and squirrels do a lot of planting for me. No kidding, some of my best trees were planted for free by animals! I've got two additional magnolias, a few hollies and about 4 offshoots of my Acuba Japonica. This would have cost a fortune if I bought all of them at the nursery, so I'm thankful for the help I get from furry and feathered friends!
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Thank you. I love violets, even though they are considered weeds. Wish all weeds looked this good.
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Thank you very much, Kimberly. I'm glad you like!
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Thank you, Grandma. I figured you would like these; I happen to LOVE violets! Why they are called, "weeds" I don't know. They're way too pretty!
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I always find these grow in places I just can't get down to!!!
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They are always hard to get to. And it's misery lying down on the ground, too. I've got millions of them in the back yard, but they are just so hard to capture. These two violets were growing far away from where I live and looked kinda cute together!
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Pictures of you (or me) lying down on the ground writhing in misery to get that special shot just crease me up!
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Anyone my age lying down in the mud to get a picture gets some really odd stares. I've gotten used to it by now, but I'm sure I look ridiculous!
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I'm amazed someone doesn't come rushing across to ask if you're all right or in need of any help!!! 
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I'm 64, Anna! People in our area often avoid dealing with persons lying on the ground. I think it's because they think said person is (1) asleep; (2) drunk and combative; or (3) doing something that involves a camera! I think that folks see my camera as well as me, so they stay away! 
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I understand, yes it must be terribly awkward in such circumstances. I've never (to my knowledge) been seen in a public place lying down to take a photo, so I guess I'm safe! But if I've fallen, or on one occasion I was sitting on my mobility scooter waiting for my husband to come and unlock the car, and had my head supported in my hands with my arms over the handlebars (basically just very tired), then people have immediately come to help. One particular time when I fell was at Ashton Market, and within seconds there were a good half dozen chairs brought for me to sit on - let alone the fact my husband also had my wheelchair which I wasn't using), and I had to try very hard in order to persuade everyone I was only shocked, in a bit of pain but nothing broken so pleeeeease don't call the ambulance! It all happened so fast! lol!
Other than that, I think I've only seen the "usual" homeless people around our town or in the underpasses; they are usually drunk or drugged, and I'm told that they choose that lifestyle rather than get help because life is too unbearable for them to live normally. What does one do? I have bought sandwiches or cakes before now, and sat and had a meaningless conversation with an alcoholic in the grip of his habit too, but beyond that... Noralot to report. I feel so sorry that they are like this, but its a whole different culture that they are used to. Friends of mine have even gone as far as to give shelter in their home, only to get robbed in the process - lack of forethought? hmm..
Well this doesn't seem to have a lot to do with Chatty Violets!
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You have a very kind and generous community, to come to your aid like that! I think that the only thing you can do to help a homeless person (other than to give him a bit of money) is to maybe talk with them. I've heard many people in our homeless community say (via their spokesperson) that it means so much to them to have a few nice words with someone, to be acknowledged. Many say they feel "invisible," because people won't make eye contact with them. I can fully appreciate that situation. I'm not a talker anyway, but I do say a few words when I give them some money; they seem to appreciate the thought as much as the money! Our county has a shelter, and most of them spend the night there. There are some holdouts who prefer spending the nights outdoors when the weather gets better. I gather shelters can be rough.
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Well I think you and I ARE the chatty violets!
We have an understanding here that to give a drug addict or an alcoholic money is to help them feed their habit. Even though they're often homeless, it isn't because they were never offered housing or shelter, and they do get their benefits, which of course they largely spend on their habits and when that runs out they steal, sad to say.
Nevertheless these people are hurting souls, and very often that's the base reason why they were so gullible to becoming addicted through the "help" of "friends" of theirs. One wishes to help in whatever way possible, but the other most unfortunate thing is that any meaningful conversation with a person under the influence is quickly lost and forgotten by them. Yet they need to talk when they need to talk, even if it just lifts them for those moments.
The policy over here is to have no-one living on the streets, in the underground, under beach piers, or anywhere else in our towns and rural areas. There is somewhere (I think its in the London suburbs somewhere) called Cardboard City, where there is a sub-culture living as a community in their cardboard-built homes. I'm not sure whether this actually still exists, but for a long time it was an area designated to those who simply couldn't learn to live by any normal social standards. Locally, we have a site designated for such people, where they are provided with caravans. They are all, unfortunately, criminals. No-one will go there on their own, and they have alarms that are directly linked to the police when they do visit - these being social workers, community nurses, doctors and so on...
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I think only so much can be done to take care of the homeless--if they have drinking/drug addiction problems. They will do anything to feed their habits. Here in this country, there is a patchwork of local government and charitable agencies that take care of the very poor. More and more, there are "working poor" with families living in the shelters. They simply don't make enough money to buy decent quarters (the wages are way too low, the housing is not affordable). It must be really terrible for them to live among drunks and druggies. I really feel awful for them, because they are trying to do the right thing, but the system is not working.
Another HUGE problem within the homeless community are those people who are mentally ill. They should be in asylums, but they're not. They should be protected, not allowed to live on the streets like animals. Some of them are dangerous to other people, too. Some cheapskate in the Reagan administration thought that the mentally ill people should be let out of institutions and dumped on the street. Smart people, eh? That's the kind of thinking that goes on nowadays and it makes me sick.
I guess life will never be 100% right, will it?
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I don't think there is much that is fair in this world unfortunately. So many things are wrong, whole areas are in devastation whilst others are affluent, but I guess its what we do if we are "better off" when we encounter someone in dire need. One thing I don't take notice of any more are the begging letters from charities. That's because of the discoveries made that several of them have executives who are earning over 100,000 per year, just creaming off the goodies at the expense of those for whom one's money was intended. And with all the scams on the internet added to this, it makes it well nigh impossible to discern what would be good charities to support and what wouldn't. Even one of the ones we do support regularly has the audacity to send out posh glossy brochures twice a year to show us all the good things our money is doing! I object to money being spent this way when its meant elsewhere.
We too have the problem of severely mentally ill, extremely disturbed people living in the community these days, rather than where both they and the community are secure! Hence more crime, more murders and so on. Most of the asylums disappeared years back when someone over here also decided they were of a past era and ought not to be funded any more. You never know just who might be lurking round that next quiet corner in the street in which you're living! Don't even know the history of half our neighbours - they could be literally anybody!
said one chatty violet to the other!
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I totally agree with you about the charities; we have the exact same problem. Too many crooks are skimming money off the top; a few have been caught red-handed, but there are many more out there. And we have the "mystery neighbor" problems, too! The police post a listing (w/pictures) of registered sex offenders, past and present. I found out there are a couple living about 10 blocks away from where we live. One is a rapist, the other a child molester. Now isn't that just wonderful.
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You know, I've never looked at these registers although I'm sure we do have them available to the public here. Its bad isn't it!
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