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Rachel Gard of Clearwater competes in saddle seat equitation -- riding with the ease and grace that will show a horse to its best advantage. Rachel's horse has quite a name. Story
[Times photo: Krystal Kinnunen]
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The doughnut diplomat
When Harvey Bailin pulls up at your wedding reception in his Krispy Kreme PT Cruiser, he comes as an ambassador for another institution as well: marriage.
What's new? Old shows
TV networks look to the familiar for help as the "sweeps" rating period begins.
Reader Exchange: Phew! Help! My fabric reeks of mothballs
One likes to make the world a better place when it's feasible to do so, but even our kind readers will agree that turning oneself into a human bug bomb is rather overdoing it.
Venus, Saturn and Mars sit for rare group portrait
May gives us the most spectacular gathering of all the naked-eye planets in over twenty years. All you need to do is turn your attention to the west-northwest after dusk. Each evening is a little different, so try to get out and observe as much as possible.
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This time around, the tour of St. Petersburg's charming Old Northeast neighborhood features the young gardens of do-it-yourselfers -- mostly women. Story
[Times photo: Dirk Shadd]
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If your grass is greener
Is your lawn lush and green? Show off the fruits of your labor in the fifth annual All-American Lawn Contest sponsored by Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse and Briggs & Stratton. At stake is a $10,000 prize for the top winner, and a $1,000 Lowe's gift certificate for four first-prize winners.
The Garden Doctor: The safest, most effective garden spray: H2O
Who among us hasn't had a favorite plant chewed to bits by hordes of bugs, or watched the lawn quickly transform into a collage of brown and green as some weird fungus among us quietly attacked?
Hot Ticket: Garden
16th annual Green Thumb Festival
Coming up
31ST ANNUAL TAMPA ROSE SOCIETY SHOW, May 4-5, WestShore Plaza, Tampa.
On the Web
www.monrovia.com/
Tools
Styled for the woman gardener
