When we went to Monterey last week, my niece had laryngitis and was on the mend from a cold. Sure enough, on Wednesday or Thursday last week, I came down with it (she claims it was her evil twin sister who gave it to me.) I had a nasty sore throat and painful cough and laryngitis and felt general crappy and run down all the way through yesterday ( Read more... )

It took 1 hour to get those last two pictures downloaded, but I did it! Then another hour and a half to get all 7600 onto my iPod. Then a half hour to figure out how to scroll around in the new iphoto (still haven't figured out how NOT to have the photos divided up by roll.)

Anyway, without further ado, here are the gorgeous Banks roses (Rosa ( Read more... )

No worries here, I don't do April Fool's Day. I hate April Fool's Day ( Read more... )

It rained yesterday, and then The Girl and I had a marathon synagogue service this morning and errands afterwards. By the time we got home, everything was still wet, and I was too tired to garden. But the conditions were good for photographs. Here are some gorgeous wet plants!

Let's start with the wee buds of a Cercis canadensis, Eastern Red Bud. ( Read more... )