I just had to throw these in the shopping cart last weekend while we were shopping at Lowe’s for garden supplies. I took this photo this morning in indirect sunlight. It’s a very happy springtime in the patio.
I just love all my flowers. Click the image to enlarge.
I took this 3D image of a small brown lizard on our recent visit to the Botanic Gardens. I found it perched on a chunk of dried out wood in the cactus and succulents garden. It posed long enough for me to take the pair of images necessary for the 3D effect. Click on the image to enlarge.
I was surprised at the number and variety of lizards on the USGS web page that are indigenous to the California Coastal area. This one is likely a ‘small scaled lizard,’ commonly found in both southern California and Baja.
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The fresh cut flowers at the supermarket flower concession didn’t look that good to me this week, so I bought some tulips in a pot. After I watered them on Friday, they suddenly sprouted into these beautiful orange with yellow highlights tulips. Click on the image to enlarge.
This is from yesterday’s visit to the Rose Garden at the South Coast Botanic Gardens. Click the image for the full 360° panoramic view.
We went to the Botanic Gardens today. I took almost 200 photos while we were there, so it was hard to pick one flower out of the many, many beautiful flowers blooming in the garden today. This bearded iris, however, was both beautiful and had this unusual burnt umber color. Click on the image to enlarge.
This fountain is located on Cabrillo and Marcelina in Old Downtown Torrance. The fountain is a gift to the city of Torrance from Mrs. Celia Pons. The fountain was dedicated to the memory of the Late President on September 14, 1964.
Anybody that can remember November 22, 1963 will almost certainly remember where they were and what they were doing when they got the news about the slain president. My ‘where I was and what I was doing’ story takes me back to when I was on active duty in the U.S. Navy. I was stationed at the Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California. After driving one of the Pilots to the administration building, I was returning to the flight line in the division’s Jeep. One of the division petty officers was in his car in the parking lot listening to the radio. He said “they shot the president!” For the next few days, the base commander directed all sailors to wear dress or undress blues instead of the usual dungarees. I remember riding back to Santa Monica along the coastline (SR 1) and seeing a throng of media outside of the beachfront home belonging to Peter Lawford who was married to one of Kennedy’s sisters. Radio stations played nothing but dreadful dirge music, as I recall.
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