Every couple of years, our Bromeliad on the front porch will produce one of these brilliant pink flowers. Eventually, there will also be purple pods embedded in the flower, which adds more color. These come and go quickly, but not as fast as the cactus blossoms. Verna took this shot of the bloom this morning.
A while ago, I took this 3D picture of a previous bloom from the same plant (you need red/blue or red/cyan 3D glasses to view).
A couple of weekends ago, Verna got this shot of a sunflower at the Botanic Garden. The sun was in the sky directly behind the sunflower – kinda like a solar-flower eclipse or something.
Yesterday’s BBQ was wonderful. This was the scene on the grill, but we also had chili for the dogs, mustard for the brats and pasta salad on the side. Everything was great!
Click below to see how it looked on the plate.
Aside from a couple of minor chores, we relaxed and enjoyed the day off today. We barbecued brats and hot dogs with sides of roasted potato spears and pasta veggie salad. Excellent! We’ll be watching fireworks this evening from the back balcony, where we have a fine view of the Wilson Park fireworks exhibit. Verna took this picture of these patriotic flowers, which are our bouquet of the week in honor of the Independence Day celebration. Click for a bigger view.
A couple of companies on Catalina Island feature web cameras on their internet sites. These folks have made the code available to display the webcam images on our pages, so I have added a new feature, Catalina Island WebCams under the Potpourri menu in the left sidebar. That page offers previews of the webcams in a small window. For the full-sized webcams, check out this larger view. The picture below is an image captured after dark last weekend. You can see the Hotel Metropole (our favorite place to stay there) just to the left of and above the arch next to the Tuna Club in the center of the picture. We’ll be staying there again this fall for our wedding anniversary.
After today’s session at the firing range, we broke down the equipment in preparation for cleanup. You can see one of the 9MM pistols, one of the .357 magnum revolvers, Verna’s little .38 special revolver and the 12 and 20 gauge shotguns all stripped and ready for cleanup. Not shown is the other stuff either in the safe or in a nearby holster. Verna snapped this picture in the patio – we usually clean the firearms while seated on the patio swing.
