Yesterday, I took this picture of a lovely old southwestern-style home. It is in the Olmstead District between Old Downtown Torrance and Torrance High School.
I love most of the homes along this historic section of our town. Click image for the 640-480 pixel version.
We were treated to a pleasant surprise this week when my Mom and Dad dropped in for a little visit. They had just been to Dad’s doctor and stopped at the house on their way home. Bob came home from work a little early, so we all had a nice chat catching up on family matters and gossip. It was very pleasant.
According to WikiPedia:
Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar.
This is one of many brilliant flowers currently showing on the patio and duping helpless sphinx moths. Of course, they delight us no end, regardless.
You can click on this image for the large size.
I never promised you a rose garden – but here it is in panoramic wide screen. Click the image for the full-sized view of the Rose Garden in the South Coast Botanic Gardens.
All I had to do to get this beautiful sunset photo is step out into the 104° heat at Lake Havasu and point the camera west. You can get a closer look at the picture and especially the contrail in the upper left by clicking on the image.
Well, not actually riverside – it’s a section of a canal that McCulloch and company dug through a peninsula on Lake Havasu. The bridge spans the canal at Queen’s Village and is the only thoroughfare from the ‘mainland’ to the ‘island’ peninsula. It was 113 degrees when I strolled down to the water to take this panoramic view. Click on the image below for the full-sized panorama.
