Here is our house with the final layer of Christmas Lights. We scaled down the display this year to save a little electricity. There are four strings of colored C9s (100 feet) and four strings of little white icicle lights (about 80 feet). Around the front window is a string of twinkle lights with colored bulbs. In reserve to be used next year, maybe, we have net lights for the bushes and rope lights for the trees.
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Pine Cones and Pine Needles, that is.
We were out and about this weekend and, as usual, I had the camera along. We walked under an evergreen conifer in Del Cerro Park and I snapped this picture. Considering the Christmas Season is here, this picture makes for a very nice Christmas card, don’t you think?
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On this Halloween, the spooks and spirits are reaching far into space. This whimsical presentation of the Cassini Saturn mission, with ghost, pumpkin and black cat demonstrates a lighter side of NASA for the Halloween holiday.
And I’m seeing a lot of these in the supermarket and as decorations at homes in the area. These were growing at the South Coast Botanic Gardens a few weeks ago when I took this photo.
Usually, when we visit the Point Vicente Interpretive Center, my camera is pointed in the opposite direction from the Center. I thought that I would take a panorama of this nice facility and put it up as a supplement to the shots we take in the opposite directions. Click the image below to see the panorama in the image viewer.
Halloween is two weeks from today. We’re going to be ready for all the little goblins, faeries, witches and what-have-you. What we’re not quite ready for, however, is little trick or treaters like Pug Vader here (ain’t he cute?). I suppose that I could run back to Bear’s doggie treat stockpile if Doggie Darth shows up. Maybe I’ll stock up on dog treats when I go shopping tomorrow.
I looked into some places that you can get one of these cute little costumes for that special pet in your life:
