After going to the firing range earlier, we came home and barbecued up this sumptuous meal consisting of top sirloin steak, Verna’s stuffed potatoes, BBQ corn cobettes and a tasty cucumber-avocado-tomato salad. With the weekly trip to shoot, a meal like this and football on the tube, life is good.
California
A Nice Rose
We were at the gun show most of the day, so we don’t have an article ready, therefore I present this nice rose as the daily post. We snapped this picture in the floral department at the supermarket. We didn’t buy roses, but we did get some nice stargazers that will be opening this week. More on that later.
Click on the image to enlarge.
Iridescent Purple Mum
This variety is called ‘Osteospermum’ or ‘Soprano Purple’ mum — or at least it’s the name we found for it on the web.
True mums and pansies are natural choices for cooler nighttime temperatures, so this is now in a pot in the patio with some smaller daisies and stuff. More purple buds are coming out soon. Click on the picture to enlarge.
Flower Power
We’re still waiting for the weather to change so we can clean up and replant the flower garden and plant new vegetables in our produce garden. After a couple of trips to the garden shop to get spring annuals, Verna will again transform our backyard into a rainbow of bright floral colors. The front yard and several other places will also get the flower power treatment.
Image – Verna flexing her power over the garden.
Flashback to August 2004
Let’s flashback to 2004 late summer (when the weather was warm) when Mom and Dad brought Aunt Virginia to visit us. As I recall, we had a very pleasant visit and were laughing at Bob as he stumbled and rushed to get into the group picture before the timer went off. Click on the image for a larger view.
Flower Pot Maintenance
Last weekend we spent a little time doing some home and garden chores. We have had problems growing little fan palms in a couple of pots on the front porch, so this weekend we pulled them out and replaced them with some little red, white and blue flowers. The plan is that we will do like those commercial gardeners do and drop in the colorful flowers that thrive for a given season. Icelandic poppies, pansies, primroses all do fairly well in California winters. We expect to see marigolds, mums, poppies and daisies replace these in the spring and summer.
Image: Verna watering and cleaning off the porch. Click to enlarge.
