Since I already have the great room vase filled with Asian lilies, I brought the other vase with a dozen of these beautiful Vendela Roses into the office. We have often bought this variety of creamy white roses. So pretty. Click on the image to enlarge.
Verna and I trimmed and cleaned up some of the shrubs and other stuff in the courtyard today. I set my little Canon A710IS on the courtyard wall and took this picture of myself and the courtyard. The red birds are dormant for the winter but the Cleveland sage bushes needed pruning. So did the flowering plum tree, not visible in the photo. Click on the image to enlarge.
The lilies we bought last week have opened up and to my delight, they are HUGE. The span across the petal tips is about nine inches. Like lilies on steroids, or something. I wish we could transmit the wonderful fragrance of these pink beauties over the internet. Click on the image to enlarge.
I took two images of the house this afternoon and merged them into this wide-angle view. In a couple of days, I will probably update this again beccause we will be trimming some of the shrubs along the road. Click on the image to see the full-sized panorama.
All four of the amaryllis flowers on the first stalk are now open. I had to wait for some sunshine to take this picture since it was raining this morning. Click on the image to enlarge.
Well, my hopes for an early spring have faded somewhat; the rain that started Thursday, continues today and for the rest of the weekend. When the rain stops again, forecast temperatures drop to the mid fifties and to below freezing overnight. Oh well, the desert can use the rain and we’ll have spring soon enough.
Verna took this photo on Thursday on our way home from grocery shopping. Click on the image to enlarge.
