Has been a while.
I'm in the middle of cataract surgery. One eye has been done for a week, the other eye next week..

This is a local mural showcasing the painted honeyeater. An endangered local species.    

I woke today missing Pippin a lot, even though we lost him months ago.

I found a photo of him taken a little over 2 years ago and earlier today experimented in FotoSketcher trying for an expressive watercolor look...

   

TGIF, friends.

Here's one taken in my front yard on March 26 of 2020, newly cropped and processed...

   

I wish us all a safe, happy, and productive weekend.

Good day All!
A beautiful blue sky day in Paradise today! A little chilly though.
Continuing from yesterday's Ellis Island post, here is another photo from there. This, if memory serves me right, are items left behind or lost.

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Happy Hump Day (for most of us).

At least one of my daily walks take me past the former home of late friend Ron, and I am saddened at how the current owner and/or tenants have ignored Ron's once immaculate flora. The yard (not a lawn but an area of attractive decorative stones) is overgrown with weeds, plants along the garage and side walls have fared no better. And his roses get not even basic care - I doubt they have been fertilized in more than a year, they are seldom watered, don't get the recommended early spring pruning that prevents diseased plants and promotes more blossoms.

A dwindling few are still trying to survive despite being surrounded by weeds up to 7 feet tall.

What a shame; it's analogous to a formerly attractive neighborhood rapidly becoming a slum.

Here is one rose (taken yesterday) that is trying...

   

For Rich:

Here is a shot of the full McMansion from a few weeks ago...

   

When the homes were built (around 1969) in the neighborhood they were single story with a living space of 1200 to 1400 square feet. I estimate this monster at 3 to 4 times that.

It's getting awfully quiet here these days!

I have just posted my monthly batch of stuff in my members' gallery.

regards - Pete

Sorry to have been AWOL for a few days. I had a strange PC problem: my screen display became black & white. It took several frustrating days to get color back. I figured it was a setting in Windows that I accidentally triggered, but it turns out that my monitor itself can be set to B&W, and my clumsy fingers must have pressed the combination of shortcut keys that direct the monitor to display everything in grayscale.

For lack of a better photo, here's one taken this morning of tall palms glowing red and orange in the still partial light from the very intense morning sun's rays...

   

Well, since I posted my rooster in Thursday's post, thought I would post his wives in Friday's.....

   

   

Well, we can't have two days in a row without a Daily!

Beautiful blue sky day in South Dakota but with our ever present wind in the spring!

Here is Paul Bunyan in Northern Minnesota.

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Good morning!  Frost yesterday and going to be  77F or higher today. Crazy. Here's a pretty blue posie.....vinca....