We went to the South Coast Botanic Garden today. We love to go there and see all the spring colors. Today, the rose garden was fully in bloom and ablaze with colors. Here’s a panorama of about half of the rose garden. Click on the pan below to see full-sized in the image viewer.
We love visiting the garden at any time of the year- there’s always something beautiful blooming – but spring is very special.
Without any provocation, vandals threw two chunks of concrete through our front window at about 2 AM this morning. The police were notified and took our report after looking around the area.
We are taking steps to get the damage cleaned up and repaired as soon as possible. I have made a call to our homeowners insurance broker and left a message.
This makes no sense to us that someone would deliberately destroy property in the middle of the night. We, of course, slept poorly after the incident. After this, we are even more glad that we have the means for self-defense should anyone enter the premises without an invitation.
My beautiful Para Warthog is back from the factory! She’s been gone for a couple of months, but we just got her back today. Our gunsmith had to send her back for repairs after the recoil spring assembly broke.
It turns out that the recoil spring assembly was manufactured incorrectly; the larger of the two springs was installed BACKWARDS! I’m surprised that I was able to get over a thousand rounds through her before it gave up.
Anyhow, I’m going to be able to make some more boom this weekend. This is a still frame from a video Bob took at the range a while back.
Verna recently bought this interesting cactus at Lowe’s garden shop. She took this picture of it shortly after we got it home. When I looked at it just a few minutes ago, I noticed that you can clearly see the Fibonacci spirals in the pattern the spiny nodes make.
Yesterday, you saw a preview of the return of the cosmos flowers to the patio flowerpots when I posted the lady bug close-up. Today, I took a lot of pictures of flowers. It was hard to pick one, but this tight shot of a pink cosmos shows the beautiful structure of these colorful flowers.
Click on the thumbnail for the full-screen version.
A little more than a week ago, I bought a couple of Cosmos flower plants at our local garden emporium. I was taking some photos of the nice flowers when I saw this little ‘lady bug’ beetle land on one of the white flowers.
I’ll have more about the flowers soon.
