We went to the South Coast Botanic Garden today. We love to go there and see all the spring colors. Today, the rose garden was fully in bloom and ablaze with colors. Here’s a panorama of about half of the rose garden. Click on the pan below to see full-sized in the image viewer.
We love visiting the garden at any time of the year- there’s always something beautiful blooming – but spring is very special.
Without any provocation, vandals threw two chunks of concrete through our front window at about 2 AM this morning. The police were notified and took our report after looking around the area.
We are taking steps to get the damage cleaned up and repaired as soon as possible. I have made a call to our homeowners insurance broker and left a message.
This makes no sense to us that someone would deliberately destroy property in the middle of the night. We, of course, slept poorly after the incident. After this, we are even more glad that we have the means for self-defense should anyone enter the premises without an invitation.
Verna recently bought this interesting cactus at Lowe’s garden shop. She took this picture of it shortly after we got it home. When I looked at it just a few minutes ago, I noticed that you can clearly see the Fibonacci spirals in the pattern the spiny nodes make.
Being the nerd that I am, I try and visit Scott Adams’ Dilbert cartoon daily on the web. Today, I was surprised by the new website format featuring a color comic strip and other interactive features. Formerly, they only published a color strip on Sunday.
This is today’s screenshot from www.dilbert.com:
I was at the dentist this morning for cleaning and checkup. I arrived a little early so I sat in the parking lot for a while. A few minutes before my appointment time, a gentleman arrived in this very cherry Ford panel truck – painted bright yellow. I took a couple of photos of it including this pair of pictures merged into a 3D image. You will need red/blue or red/cyan glasses to see the 3D effect. Visit my 3D gallery for this and more.
Actually, I filed our tax returns electronically last week. Today is the day that the small amounts we owe to the Franchise Tax Board and the U.S. Treasury get debited from the checking account. This year, filing the taxes electronically automatically initiates the pending tax rebates which will automatically be credited to the checking account next month.
The tide goes out, the tide comes in – mostly out though.
