Lots of men and women collect Hawaiian-style shirts with their interesting and varied patterns and brilliant colors. Bob has a few nice shirts, so I decided that I would include some of the patterns and colors here.
The first in the series is was one of Bob’s bright shirts – it’s a bit small for him so I guess I’ll have it for myself . . .
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It’s one of the most wonderful times of the year, when all the cactii are popping with flowers right and left. Sometimes two and three flowers come out at a time – like this beautiful bishop’s hat with three brilliant yellow flowers. Click the image for big.
After our weekly target practice, we stopped at the garden shop to pick up some things we needed to maintain our garden and landscape. We got some birdseed, some bug zapping stuff, a couple of shrubs, a tomato plant and a pot of “Harlequin Dahlias.” This is a close-up of one of the flowers in that collection.
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For 2008, that is. Enjoy it while you can. Click the image for the 800×600 view.
We had a bumper crop of these beautiful red blossoms this spring – the plant produced over a dozen of them. Last year I think we only had two.
So that does it for the red and yellow ones, but the white one already produced one flower. I missed getting a photo of it since the white flower plant is on the side of the house where there isn’t much foot traffic. There is another bud, quite small at this time, that I will start checking on a daily basis now that I know it’s there.
These lilies have been confused before. They bloomed last December, way before the Easter season. I cut them all the way down after the blooms all faded. Now, they’re in full Easter mode, but a bit late for the early Easter we had this year. Maybe next year they will be on schedule, but then, I enjoy them whenever they decide to come out. I’ll have pictures of new Easter lilies to display before too long.
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Readers here may or may not know that I know a thing or two about helicopters – I have an airline transport helicopter rating with hundreds of hours of instruction given, charters flown and cross-country ferry flights. I have had a mishap or two along the way, but I’m still here to blog about it.
I can’t comment about the crash of the Island Express helicopter on Catalina Island other than to observe that the pilot had a lot of experience and that the weather conditions were certainly less than optimal. The FAA and NTSB state that the investigation might take up to a year to complete. We offer our condolences to the families and friends of the victims in this terrible accident.
We have been passengers several times on Island Express – we were married in Avalon, and often go back, especially for our anniversary.
We’re going again this year as well and we’re planning to fly over on Island Express helicopters. We believe that it is a safe and enjoyable way to cross the channel.
So, with that in mind, click on the video to the right and see for yourself just how nice an adventure you have when taking the helicopter to the Island.
