When Don and I headed out to Solvang, it was a rainy, blustery morning. By the time we got there, the rain had more or less stopped, and the flower boxes along the street were blanketed with sparkling raindrops. Made for more interesting photography than I was expecting to find there.
Our friends Parry and Aylene took us out to dinner recently (very kind of them!) and on top of that brought us an armful of cymbidium orchids when they came to pick us up. Here’s a quick shot I took of the ones that ended up on the breakfast table.
The first cut flowers from my garden! Not grown from seeds, but still. So, let’s see, what have I been up to for the last three months? Moving out, moving in, fixing up the house, getting a garden started, getting out and actually (finally) meeting people… all that has been keeping me pretty busy for the last several months. But I’ve been missing my photography, and it’s time to get back in that groove. I don’t think I’ll make it back to every day for a while, but I’ll be going for an upward trend. Oh, and since my home…
My parents have a large, spectacular poinsettia on their hearth. We took many photos of it, and discovered that it is hard to capure this plant! Today was the last day of our vacation, we head home tomorrow. My brother returns with us to start work on the house and yard. My sister joins us in CA in about two weeks, making this a month-long sibling party. Woo hoo!
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