“You didn’t tell me there was green stuff in this soup!”
Grandma feeding our nephew, Drake, some vegetable soup. He likes the carrots.
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Vendela Rose
It has been a while since the flower concession had Vendela roses. The cream colored petals look very beautiful with skylight from the second-story window shining on them. Vendela is greatly admired for the hint of pink found on the petal edges. This champagne ivory rose adds a special touch to the living room when we have them.
Peacock Sighting at Mom and Dad’s House
My sister, Carol, heard what she described as an animal sound coming from behind the garage the other day. I asked what it sounded like – she imitated what I thought sounded like an elephant. She also said that she could hear something in a tree out there. Elephants in trees? Probably not.
Since she didn’t want to go out there, I decided to venture out to see what this mystery beast was all about. Imagine my surprise when I saw this peacock strutting across the top of one of the neighbor’s travel trailer just across the fence from the back part of the yard.
It was a beautiful bird, one of the prettiest I’ve seen, although it’s tail feathers were kind of mucked up like something ‘almost’ caught it one time. And it moved quite quickly too. It just wouldn’t pose for me, as I tried to get a picture.
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Update: BB took a picture of the peacock later in the day:
Three Dimensional
Perhaps this post ought to be classified “Verna’s 3D Stuff.”
Last week, Verna drove to Santa Monica for her dental check-up and cleaning appointment. Since the dentist’s office is about 25 miles from home, she left early in order to get there on time. As it turned out, the traffic was a bit lighter than usual and she arrived about 55 minutes early for the appointment.
With a little time to kill, she grabbed her camera and walked towards Palisades Park to take advantage of the photo ops she knew would be there. Well, she did get a number of interesting images – too numerous to show here – but this one pair of images stood out to me.
She was on Ocean Avenue, in front of Dimensional Fund Advisors‘ Santa Monica offices and it occurred to her that their ‘Dimensional’ logo could be a play on the words ‘three dimensional,’ like the photos I often post here. She aligned herself in front of the sign and took the pair of images, one left and one right. The image seen here is the result of converting her pictures to an anaglyph, or red-cyan 3D image.
To view the full-sized 3D image click on the thumbnail. If you don’t have your free 3D glasses you can view the 2D image here.
A Popular Image Search
If you do an image search for red and white amaryllis on Google®, you will notice the first image is one we posted some time ago. It was a very beautiful multi-tiered flower and gets a lot of hits.
The number two flower in the image search is the same flower from number one that was stolen from our other website by BlogNetNews (they did give us credit). Click here to see the image search.
This one is also a beautiful red and white single-tiered flower which we hope as many people can enjoy as well. Click image to enlarge.
More Old Pictures
I started rummaging around in the electronic files for something unrelated and found this one that I scanned in a long time ago. This was our family in late 1944. Mom, Dad and my brother, Bill, were standing on Fifth Street, near Locust Avenue in Long Beach, CA. Mom is holding me at age 1 plus something. Behind us is the First Christian Church, which has since been demolished and is now a shopping mall.
Dad was home on leave from WWII which was still in progress. He is wearing the uniform of a Warrant Officer in the US Navy. I wrote about some of Dad’s WWII service in another post a while back.
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