Salsa!

First tomato of the season!!!!

It isn't quite ripe but let it set in the window a couple of days and it will be ready to eat. The chilis are a poblano and an anaheim. Chop them up with the tomato, onion, garlic and fresh cilantro and you have Pico de Gallo.

I pick my tomatoes a day or two early so I get ahead of the critters.

Catching up

Our irises were beautiful this year. This picture was take a bit late in the season and doesn't capture the beauty of not only the irises but my 2 rose bushes all lined up in a colorful row.

The feline strutting her stuff is Chloe

Free flowers

These Sweet Williams were rescued from an abandoned lot in the neighborhood. When I dug them up they were just a small bunch struggling to survive. I have found a number of flowers at old house places. The houses are often gone but the flowers remain still blooming along forgotten paths. These are usually very hardy flowers. Irises and Jonquils are the most frequent flowers I have bought home. They always seem hardier than those store bought varieties. The weak ones perish those left will survive under any condition. Often like the sweet williams , with a little love and attention you will have a beautiful flower.






My wife dug up a start of these spring wild flowers and planted them in her back yard shade garden. This spring we tore down the trellis that was providing the shade are in the process of moving the shade plants in it to the many shady locations in the backyard. These wild flowers have thrived well and have reseeded themselves for 20 years . We hope they will like their new locations and continue to thrive

A trip to Family Tree nursery

Renee, you wanted a closeup

The wife got a new camera. It is twice the camera for a third the cost. She bought a flash card that will store all the pictures I will ever take the rest of my life. Some ungodly sum that my mind draws a blank on because it was so silly. Paid half the price for for the flash card than we did for the one in my camera that holds about 120 pictures.
And 120 is enough for anything I will do. After that it is time to go back and delete the bad ones.

I had an aunt and uncle who ran a photography studio for years. He took the pictures and she worked on the negative and directly on the picture to remove the imperfections and make people beautiful.
They both died before all the electronic revolution we have seen in the last 20 years. They were wizards for their time. Imagine what they could do with modern equipment.

We did it again.

What is it they tell alcoholics?
Not even one drink?
Well we were going to just buy a few pansies. a pot for Buddha and a few for the front slope.




But , Hey, Buddha is happy with his 4 pots of flowers.

Looking at old pictures on a rainy day

I'm working on a web site today, And digging out old pictures and graphics seeing which ones can be recycled.



These pictures are from a 2004 block party put on by a group of immigrants who cleaned up a trash strewned abandon lot and turned it into a pocket park for their children to play.
These are all pictures of the people watching a puppet show put on by one of the blocks residents. He learned how by working with his uncle in Mexico as a teenager.





Here is yours truly strapping on the puppet. I had a lot of fun that night.