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Did you see the one guy pulling his gum? I don't know why that struck me as seriously funny, but it did..........
Another one from India Knight.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
December 4, flowers
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December 4 was a beautiful clear and sunny day. Cold, though. I don't know if the temp got above freezing.
This enduring rose just goes on and on. With no care at all, it makes two or three flowers in early summer, and another two or three in late fall.
Here it is, soldiering on, despite temps in the 20s (F). You can see snow on the ground, behind it.
Snow closeup.
Amazing that this, also, endures!
You can see that the more-exposed plants are done for, but the ones that are sheltered by the house continue as though it were still September.
The alyssum's honey perfume no longer surrounds you from a distance, as it does in September, but it's there, if you seek it.
I like the shadows.........
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December 4 was a beautiful clear and sunny day. Cold, though. I don't know if the temp got above freezing.
This enduring rose just goes on and on. With no care at all, it makes two or three flowers in early summer, and another two or three in late fall.
Here it is, soldiering on, despite temps in the 20s (F). You can see snow on the ground, behind it.
Snow closeup.
Amazing that this, also, endures!
You can see that the more-exposed plants are done for, but the ones that are sheltered by the house continue as though it were still September.
The alyssum's honey perfume no longer surrounds you from a distance, as it does in September, but it's there, if you seek it.
I like the shadows.........
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
red cars
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You may recall my year of red car pics.
Several of those red cars are no longer found in our neighborhood. Nowadays it is much more common to see four or five white cars..........
When I got home from the Kiwanis on December 4, there were four red cars. I had to take the pic, for old-times sake.
My other red-car pics do not have people, but two of these women were about to remove two of the red cars, so I had to seize the time.
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You may recall my year of red car pics.
Several of those red cars are no longer found in our neighborhood. Nowadays it is much more common to see four or five white cars..........
When I got home from the Kiwanis on December 4, there were four red cars. I had to take the pic, for old-times sake.
My other red-car pics do not have people, but two of these women were about to remove two of the red cars, so I had to seize the time.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
smile for Wednesday
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I don't want to spoil the surprise by telling you what it is, but do go see......
Another one from India Knight.
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I don't want to spoil the surprise by telling you what it is, but do go see......
Another one from India Knight.
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December 4, coming home
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After I finished my Kiwanis shopping, I walked back to the car. Much easier, nearly empty handed, than laden as I had been when I arrived! On the homeward-bound trip, I had enough energy to notice the sunshine and the growing things retaining color.
Decorative kale, with frozen water drops.
Hot pepper, with kale in the background.
My return home was an exciting event in Wilbur's day. The study couch is a conveniently-placed vantage point.
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After I finished my Kiwanis shopping, I walked back to the car. Much easier, nearly empty handed, than laden as I had been when I arrived! On the homeward-bound trip, I had enough energy to notice the sunshine and the growing things retaining color.
Decorative kale, with frozen water drops.
Hot pepper, with kale in the background.
My return home was an exciting event in Wilbur's day. The study couch is a conveniently-placed vantage point.
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
smile for Tuesday
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Of course we have to put out all our trash in pick-up-able-by-trucks bins, nowadays, rather than in trash bags, but remembering the old trash-bag days, aren't these Christmas pudding bags cute?
Wouldn't they make excellent decorations at a Large (very Large) Christmas Party?
(Thinking now of 6"-diameter pvc pipes, turned into enormous peppermint sticks by wrapping wide red ribbon up diagonally up them........)
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Of course we have to put out all our trash in pick-up-able-by-trucks bins, nowadays, rather than in trash bags, but remembering the old trash-bag days, aren't these Christmas pudding bags cute?
Wouldn't they make excellent decorations at a Large (very Large) Christmas Party?
(Thinking now of 6"-diameter pvc pipes, turned into enormous peppermint sticks by wrapping wide red ribbon up diagonally up them........)
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December 4
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Our first snow of this season.
Family room roof (last seen with ripped off shingles all over it!), behind a gone-to-seed weed.
You can tell that these shingles are in excellent shape -- perfect symmetry; no warping or worn-away corners.........
Our downtown Kiwanis service club runs a thrift store. We used to go there every single week. It is my very favorite thrift store, with a bit of everything, most of it at an excellent price. It is a major factor in my owning too much of everything......
I do much better about not buying stuff when I am not presented with tons of really cheap Good Stuff. In my current de-aquisition mode, I have been avoiding the Kiwanis.
Last week we went through the family room closet, and did some serious triage on the games and puzzles. (Most of which came from the Kiwanis, and had never been out of the closet since they went in, many moons ago.)
Yesterday the Kiwanis had their annual Christmas sale. I taped every box shut (well, not the puzzles that had never -- by anyone! -- been opened), and marked prices on the ones that didn't have prices, so I could carry a large amount of it back to the Kiwanis and unload it directly onto the sale tables (rather than in the donation area forcing some volunteer to sort, price, deliver to the sale area).
Gotta love these enormous IKEA bags......................
Some of these games were rather heavier than I had been thinking they were, especially in the aggregate.
I am not a tall person. I was alone. It's too bad there isn't video of me trying to negotiate doors. Or stagger down the street. The bags' handles were *just* long enough that I couldn't carry them, handles in hands, without flexing my arms a bit so the bags wouldn't drag. Bummer. So I had the bags at my elbows on my bent arms. My better half offered to help me carry out to the car. I said "Thanks, but no thanks" -- if I couldn't get to the car by myself, I surely couldn't get from the car into the Kiwanis........
I did set one bag down on the neighbor's grass in order to unlock the minivan, but otherwise, getting everything into the car was not too bad (after managing to get out of the house; that was the tricky part of the early phase of the operation!).
Naturally our very favorite downtown parking lot, that Huron, First, Washington, Ashley block with the lovely plantings, which, coincidentally, is kittycorner from the Kiwanis, was full. I had anticipated that it might be.................
I lucked out, though, and found a place on the street, not too far west on Washington.
It was work to accomplish, but I managed to get all of this to the Kiwanis, get it up the stairs to the Christmas Extravaganza section, and get it spread out on the appropriate tables (puzzles here, adult games there, little-kid stuff somewhere else).
Whew!
Glad to get that volume of stuff out of the house!
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Our first snow of this season.
Family room roof (last seen with ripped off shingles all over it!), behind a gone-to-seed weed.
You can tell that these shingles are in excellent shape -- perfect symmetry; no warping or worn-away corners.........
Our downtown Kiwanis service club runs a thrift store. We used to go there every single week. It is my very favorite thrift store, with a bit of everything, most of it at an excellent price. It is a major factor in my owning too much of everything......
I do much better about not buying stuff when I am not presented with tons of really cheap Good Stuff. In my current de-aquisition mode, I have been avoiding the Kiwanis.
Last week we went through the family room closet, and did some serious triage on the games and puzzles. (Most of which came from the Kiwanis, and had never been out of the closet since they went in, many moons ago.)
Yesterday the Kiwanis had their annual Christmas sale. I taped every box shut (well, not the puzzles that had never -- by anyone! -- been opened), and marked prices on the ones that didn't have prices, so I could carry a large amount of it back to the Kiwanis and unload it directly onto the sale tables (rather than in the donation area forcing some volunteer to sort, price, deliver to the sale area).
Gotta love these enormous IKEA bags......................
Some of these games were rather heavier than I had been thinking they were, especially in the aggregate.
I am not a tall person. I was alone. It's too bad there isn't video of me trying to negotiate doors. Or stagger down the street. The bags' handles were *just* long enough that I couldn't carry them, handles in hands, without flexing my arms a bit so the bags wouldn't drag. Bummer. So I had the bags at my elbows on my bent arms. My better half offered to help me carry out to the car. I said "Thanks, but no thanks" -- if I couldn't get to the car by myself, I surely couldn't get from the car into the Kiwanis........
I did set one bag down on the neighbor's grass in order to unlock the minivan, but otherwise, getting everything into the car was not too bad (after managing to get out of the house; that was the tricky part of the early phase of the operation!).
Naturally our very favorite downtown parking lot, that Huron, First, Washington, Ashley block with the lovely plantings, which, coincidentally, is kittycorner from the Kiwanis, was full. I had anticipated that it might be.................
I lucked out, though, and found a place on the street, not too far west on Washington.
It was work to accomplish, but I managed to get all of this to the Kiwanis, get it up the stairs to the Christmas Extravaganza section, and get it spread out on the appropriate tables (puzzles here, adult games there, little-kid stuff somewhere else).
Whew!
Glad to get that volume of stuff out of the house!
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Monday, December 07, 2009
a smile for your Monday
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All the critters over at 7MSN Ranch are personable and photogenic (and beautifully photographed!). Alan, a formerly feral burro, is one of my favorites. Scroll on down for a very smile-worthy pic.
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All the critters over at 7MSN Ranch are personable and photogenic (and beautifully photographed!). Alan, a formerly feral burro, is one of my favorites. Scroll on down for a very smile-worthy pic.
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December 2
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There was some serious frost on the car. I took some pics, but there were so many tree branches in the way that the frost was definitely not center stage.
This crow spent some time walking around. Between the not-pristine windows and the distance, its details are lost. I like the silhouette.....
Several weeks ago I talked about the three-dimensionality of sycamore leaves.
This one was on the sidewalk between the little parking lot at work and the building.
The across-the-street neighbors' lights, in the rain.
It's remarkably hard to hold still long enough to take pics at night. Even when you are braced against the window.
This is the best of several attempts. I particularly like the reflections on the street.
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There was some serious frost on the car. I took some pics, but there were so many tree branches in the way that the frost was definitely not center stage.
This crow spent some time walking around. Between the not-pristine windows and the distance, its details are lost. I like the silhouette.....
Several weeks ago I talked about the three-dimensionality of sycamore leaves.
This one was on the sidewalk between the little parking lot at work and the building.
The across-the-street neighbors' lights, in the rain.
It's remarkably hard to hold still long enough to take pics at night. Even when you are braced against the window.
This is the best of several attempts. I particularly like the reflections on the street.
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Sunday, December 06, 2009
Dec 1
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A dried grape is a raisin, and a dried plum is a prune. I don't know what a dried persimmon is called, but this is what it looks like.
For a bit of refreshing color, also on my office window sill.
My spider plant's babies with ginkgo leaves picked up in front of the building last month. I didn't arrange this; I just looked over from the persimmon, and there it was.
I looked at my desk after taking the above, and liked the vignette with the apple and headphones. Then I noticed the Bradford pear leaves picked up last year, still holding shape and color. The Japanese character on the monitor is a phone charm brought home from Japan by one of my friends at work. I think it means good luck.
The apple is a Golden Russet, hand carried to me from the east. Russets are not magazine-picture apples, and their skin is rough rather than smooth and shiny. They are delicious (unlike, say Red Delicious, which are mealy and tasteless).
This one was yummy.
I don't mind winter's cold.
I mind that it's dark when I walk home.
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A dried grape is a raisin, and a dried plum is a prune. I don't know what a dried persimmon is called, but this is what it looks like.
For a bit of refreshing color, also on my office window sill.
My spider plant's babies with ginkgo leaves picked up in front of the building last month. I didn't arrange this; I just looked over from the persimmon, and there it was.
I looked at my desk after taking the above, and liked the vignette with the apple and headphones. Then I noticed the Bradford pear leaves picked up last year, still holding shape and color. The Japanese character on the monitor is a phone charm brought home from Japan by one of my friends at work. I think it means good luck.
The apple is a Golden Russet, hand carried to me from the east. Russets are not magazine-picture apples, and their skin is rough rather than smooth and shiny. They are delicious (unlike, say Red Delicious, which are mealy and tasteless).
This one was yummy.
I don't mind winter's cold.
I mind that it's dark when I walk home.
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Saturday, December 05, 2009
toilet-paper-roll art
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At our house, dogs shred and eat the toilet-paper rolls.
Check out a much more interesting use here.
Wow, eh?
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At our house, dogs shred and eat the toilet-paper rolls.
Check out a much more interesting use here.
Wow, eh?
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Nov 27
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Wibbles continues to be lively and happy. Yay, and whew!
I disrupted his busy napping schedule when I walked into the room. I liked the curve of his ear........
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Wibbles continues to be lively and happy. Yay, and whew!
I disrupted his busy napping schedule when I walked into the room. I liked the curve of his ear........
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