Perhaps this post ought to be classified “Verna’s 3D Stuff.”

Last week, Verna drove to Santa Monica for her dental check-up and cleaning appointment. Since the dentist’s office is about 25 miles from home, she left early in order to get there on time. As it turned out, the traffic was a bit lighter than usual and she arrived about 55 minutes early for the appointment.

With a little time to kill, she grabbed her camera and walked towards Palisades Park to take advantage of the photo ops she knew would be there. Well, she did get a number of interesting images - too numerous to show here - but this one pair of images stood out to me.

She was on Ocean Avenue, in front of Dimensional Fund Advisors‘ Santa Monica offices and it occurred to her that their ‘Dimensional’ logo could be a play on the words ‘three dimensional,’ like the photos I often post here. She aligned herself in front of the sign and took the pair of images, one left and one right. The image seen here is the result of converting her pictures to an anaglyph, or red-cyan 3D image.

To view the full-sized 3D image click on the thumbnail. If you don’t have your free 3D glasses you can view the 2D image here.

If you do an image search for red and white amaryllis on Google®, you will notice the first image is one we posted some time ago. It was a very beautiful multi-tiered flower and gets a lot of hits.

The number two flower in the image search is the same flower from number one that was stolen from our other website by BlogNetNews (they did give us credit). Click here to see the image search.

This one is also a beautiful red and white single-tiered flower which we hope as many people can enjoy as well. Click image to enlarge.

I started rummaging around in the electronic files for something unrelated and found this one that I scanned in a long time ago. This was our family in late 1944. Mom, Dad and my brother, Bill, were standing on Fifth Street, near Locust Avenue in Long Beach, CA. Mom is holding me at age 1 plus something. Behind us is the First Christian Church, which has since been demolished and is now a shopping mall.

Dad was home on leave from WWII which was still in progress. He is wearing the uniform of a Warrant Officer in the US Navy. I wrote about some of Dad’s WWII service in another post a while back.

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Next time you chop up some rosemary to add flavor to a favorite dish, think of how pretty the little flowers are on the bush. Rosemary grows extremely well here in Southern California. Click on the image to enlarge.

One of the most interesting things about cactus and succulents is their blooming habits. Spring is the time for succulents of the Aloe family to produce their flowers. We saw this this little forest of aloe blooms on our way into the Botanic Garden last weekend.

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I took this 3D picture from inside the rose garden looking toward the “Garden of the Senses.” The arch forms the western portal to the rose garden at the South Coast Botanic Gardens.

We were there for a visit to see all the beautiful spring flowers. Verna takes most of the pictures of the flowers, while I’m in charge of nerdy panoramas and 3D pictures.

To view the full-sized 3D image click on the thumbnail. If you don’t have your 3D glasses you can view the arches 2D image here.

Our dentist has his practice in Santa Monica, California. Today, I went there to get my semi-annual dental maintenance. I left in plenty of time, and I arrived in the area early. So I took a walk up to Palisades Park which is not far from the dentist.

I took a lot of pictures of the buildings and scenery there, including this shot of the statue of Santa Monica. I couldn’t find out a lot about her on the net, but she was sculpted by Eugene Morahan in 1934. She stands in Palisades Park with her back to the bay named after her.

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