What is This?

[Charlene5]

This is Gramps and he's my new photo.  I've just gotten to the adjusting and calming down the bright spots and that's where I give the picture a good look.  In the right background there is some errr stuff.  At first I thought it was pampas grass in a jug or something until I noticed that it drapes itself over the chair headrest.  It's probably damage?  There is a plant next to him and half of it seems to be washed out.   I think that behind the plant is just wood-paneled wall or door and the pampas grass-like damage.  Please look and tell me what you see?  I'm old and don't trust my eyes sometimes :)  Any guesses as to what that thingie is in the background just to the right of the lampshade?

[Hannie]

Charlene, I think your first thought was right, it is a plant.  There are at least 3 different plants in the background.  The one furthest away is either a fatsia or an umbrella plant.

Hannie

[glennab]

Sorry Hannie, but I'm going to have to disagree with you on the plant.  The far right leaves belong to a ti plant (or dracaena).  You can see just the slight red of the edges on a couple of the leaves, and they're too long to be an umbrella plant (or at least what I know as an umbrella plant, which is a shefflera).  It's related to the corn plant but with very dark glossy pendulous leaves.  I'm not sure about the one closest to the chair.  It looks as if it could be a peace lily, and above it looks like a wispy fern of some sort. And that could be a grass overlapping the chair.  (If it were my house I'd say it's one of the cats' current "art" projects, as in "shredded chair.")

Charlene, the "thingy" next to the lamp shade is a macramé hanging (probably jute dyed dark green) with a thick piece of varnished dark natural wood for a hanging table and a globe sitting on the table. (I know I'm dating myself, but I made many of those back in the 70s -- for plants, since horticulture is my hobby.)

Hope this helps.

Glenna

[rockthumper]

It's the cat! Jumping off the back of the chair just as the photo was taken...  >:D

[Charlene5]

I'm not a plant person and I did some faffing around with Grampa's plants.  Is this OK or do I need more detail or something?

[rockthumper]

Looks good to me. :up2:

[Tess (Tassie D)]

Looks fine to me too. It's just enough to look like plants in the background, any more and they'd draw too much notice.

[glennab]

Hi Charlene

The plants look great.

I just posted in a thread in which RT was looking for Scrutineers and told him we need to add that word to the OPR dictionary.  I love "faffing," so I'd recommend that term be added as well.  What the heck is faffing?

Bless!

Glenna

[rockthumper]

Hey Glenna,I was fairly amazed at Charlene's use of that word too, I thought it was purely a northern English term. Where I originated it means 'aimlessly fiddling', 'stuffing around', pointless activity. Also rendered with other colloquialisms beginning with 'F'.  ;)

[Charlene5]

OK I confess :)  I may live in Texas but for almost 10 years I worked for a UK-based company.  I worked from home but made the trip to London 3 or 4 times a year.  It was a filthy job but (sigh) someone had to do it :)  The fiction was that I was an ex-pat and I learned to spell, phrase, and write as an English person.  All of my work was done by email so the clients never heard me speak.  It's been two years since I left the job and I've finally stopped spelling English but the vocabulary has become part of me.  I think "faffing" is a wonderful word and I do a lot of it trying to find solutions to the problems some of these pictures pose!

MJ