Thirteen Roses from my Garden

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13 Spring Roses from my garden

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Thought for Today
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." Emma Goldman

Ruby Tuesday Reflections

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Camera Critters is in the next post.

Ruby Reds from my neighborhood ...
Note the flower reflections in this Ruby car
and RED Amaryllis too!

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Thought for Today
"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only." Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Camera Critters #61 - Lazy Ms. Kitty

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Shadow Shot Sunday is at Sacred Ruminations

This is my 61stMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.
Lazy kitty looks
black until she's in the sun ...
when brown tints suggest

she might have high-class
pedigree 'genetic' traits
Burmese origins?

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Thought for Today
"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." Joseph Wood Krutch

HF#133 - Checking out Late Afternoon Skies

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My heart goes out to
everyone affected by
Myrtle Beach fires ...

From the deck above
the garage my evening skies
obscured by wires

often dramatic ...
as the photos I've collaged
and shared here today.

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Haiku Friday, SkyWatch and Looking at the Sky this week.

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Happily Retired Gal and Sacred Ruminations

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Thought for Today
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your
house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." Robert Fulghum

Wordless Waterless Wednesday - Happy Earth Day

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Earth Day Links
History of Earth Day
Earth Day 2009 Campaigns & Events
Southern California Events & Search Engine
Earth Day - Government Portal

ALMOST
Record temp'ratures ...
87 degrees plus!
More like SUMMER than

Springtime at the beach.
Southern California
unpredictable

weather that has left
yards & gardens thirsty ... plants
wilting much too soon.

Note how dry the dirt
around Nastursiums on my
parkway and iris

blossoms ... normally
lasting well in to next month
already wilting.
Without sprinklers
I water by hand with the
hose (for now at least)

Water restrictions
in Los Angeles County
limit watering

after 9am
before 4pm ... only
Monday & Thursday.

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and Wordless Wednesday today.

Beautiful to see
ocean views like these abound
but don't help my plants.

This is my 5th ...My 1st, 2nd and 4th are at Sacred Ruminations
and my 3rd is at Happily Retired Gal

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Thought for Today
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
Chief Seattle, 1855

Shadow Shot #15 - Camera Critters #60

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This is my fifteenth …

and my 60thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.
Meet Chancellor or 'Chance' for short
visiting Molly in our front yard

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and Camera Critters at Misty Dawn's this week.
See also Shadow Shot #16 at Sacred Ruminations today.

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Thought for Today
"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them." Phil Pastoret

Purple Photo Hunt and Today's Flowers

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at Happily Retired Gal & Sacred Ruminations today too ...

This week’s theme is - PURPLE
my favorite color ;--)

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Thought for Today
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." Walt Whitman

Belated T-13 with Haiku Sky Watch Friday

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Haiku Friday#131 & Sky Watch #45

13 Sky Photos

Frequently surprised
at the way our sky changes
in the course of one

day ... I snapped thirteen
photographs on April 9th ...
then created this.

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Thought for Today
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful." Ninon de L'Enclos

Witty Wednesday #8

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My 8th Witty Wednesday

A Pot-Pourri of Stories:  

Courtesy of Comedy Central's Jokes.com Newsletter ...

Getting Forgetful

Three old ladies sit in a diner, discussing their health.

One lady says, "You know, I'm getting really forgetful. This morning, I was standing at the top of the stairs, and I couldn't remember whether I had just come up or was about to go down."

The second lady says, "You think that's bad? The other day, I was sitting on the edge of my bed, and I couldn't remember whether I was going to sleep or had just woken up!"

The third lady smiles smugly. "Well, my memory is just as good as it's always been, knock on wood," she says as she raps on the table. Then with a startled look on her face, she asks, "Who's there?"

Prison Mail

A prisoner in jail receives a letter from his wife: "Dear husband, I have decided to plant some lettuce in the back garden. When is the best time to plant them?"

The prisoner, knowing that the prison guards read all mail, replies in a letter: "Dear wife, whatever you do, do not touch the back garden. That is where I hid all the money."

A week or so later, he receives another letter from his wife. "Dear husband, you wouldn't believe what happened. Some men came with shovels to the house and dug up the back garden."

The prisoner writes back: "Dear wife, now is the best time to plant the lettuce."

The Engineer at the Golf Course

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer wait for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumes, "What's with these guys? We've been waiting for 15 minutes!"

The pastor says, "Hey, here comes the groundskeeper. Let's have a word with him."

"Say, George, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" the doctor asks.

The groundskeeper tells them that the other golfers are a group of blind firefighters who lost their sight saving the clubhouse from a fire and that they come and play for free whenever they want.

The group is silent for a moment.

The pastor says, "That's so sad. I will say a special prayer for them tonight."

The doctor says, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them."

The engineer says, "Why can't these guys play at night?"

Deadly Golf Trap

Jim and Bob are golfing. Jim slices his ball deep into a wooded ravine and climbs down in search of it.

Jim spots something shiny. As he gets closer, he realizes that the shiny object is an 8-iron in the hands of a skeleton lying near an old golf ball.

Jim calls out to Bob in an agitated voice, "Hey Bob, I got trouble down here."

Bob calls out, "What's the matter Jim?"

Jim shouts back, "Throw me my 7-iron. You can't get out of here with an 8-iron."

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where I've enjoyed Witty Wednesday for a while now.

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Thought for Today
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."    
e.e. cummings

Mellow Yellow Monday and Today's Flowers

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This is my 5th Mellow Yellow post
at Small Reflections but I've published 12 Mellow Yellow posts

previously at Happily Retired Gal.

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and Happily Retired Gal

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Thought for Today
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." Phyllis Diller

Camera Critters #57 - Dogs At Play

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An Easter Gift for Everyone
Wishing everyone a Blessed Passover
and Easter Sunday!

This is my 57thMisty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.

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If you missed my Watery Wednesday posts this week,
check out the birds in Fowl Food Fight Flights at
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Both qualify as Camera Critters too.
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Thought for Today
"Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless." Charles M. Crowe

T-13 Spring Roses from Southern California

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13 Spring Rose Photos
from Southern California

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Thought for Today
"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden." Ruth Stout

Wondering Where our Wet Weather Went ...

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ALMOST

Monday's weather cast

promised rain on Tuesday and

We'nesday but thus far

it remains as dry

as it's been most of the year ...

Skies are clear & blue.

I'll be watering

to keep my flowers alive

after all it seems.


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Thought for Today

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Ruby Tuesday - My World

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Ruby Reds from downtown Huntington Beach, CA
'Surf City' ... USA

Pier Transportation (above)
Restaurants & Business Signs (below)

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That's My World for this Tuesday.
Thanks to the My World Team:
Klaus | Sandy | Ivar | Wren | Fishing Guy | Louise

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Thought for Today
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." Og Mandino