Morning Miscellany ... Beautiful Blossoms

Make Time for Small Reflections

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One last ripe lemon
fell from my tree yesterday
and new green ones are

ripening as the
tree bursts forth in new blossoms
for more summer fruit

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Thought for Today
"Today we understand that motivation -- and therefore engagement -- comes from loving what you do. You love what you do when you are in the right job, feel values and are given opportunities to grow." Terri Kabachnick

Happy Summer Solstice ...

Make Time for Small Reflections

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Touches of yellow
everywhere I look in my
summertime garden ;-)

Straight out of the camera ...

Poster Edges

Watercolor

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Did you see the way
Google's celebrating the
Summertime Solstice?

I always enjoy
clever Google 'graphic' play
with their 'kewl' logo!

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Thought for Today
"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." Robert J. Shiller

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1. Remember how Mom's Azalea got broken again in February of this year? I'm happy to report that it's coming back for the second time ... slowly but surely. The piece I planted in the parkway is still struggling and may not make it, but the original plant seems healthier this time around ... though very small at this point.

What it looked like in February ...


... and what it looks like now ;-)

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2. It's been a while now since I've seen blue skies like those in the Haiku Sky Watch logo below ... but the bare branches of the tree next door show signs of Spring.

Grey & drizzily
skies of late keep temp'ratures
in the mid 60s




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3. Over the past few afternoons (once the drizzles stopped) I've put some of the colorful new bedding plants in the ground ... and intend to get the rest planted today and/or tomorrow. I was tempted to leave the bright orange Nemesia in a pot on the patio, but decided to put it in the ground near the yellow & orange Lantana.

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4. The first two blooms on my newly planted Veteran's Honor rose bush lasted for almost 5 weeks and I suspected it might need time to recover ... but to my surprise I discovered a new bud on it just yesterday. In addition, the African Iris (otherwise known as Fortnight Lily) have started to bloom in the neighborhood ... though MINE hasn't produced any buds yet.

Veteran's Honor rose bud above and
African Iris/Fortnight Lily blooms below ...

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5. Yesterday I went with a friend to see Hershey Felder in his latest one man musical bio-play at the Laguna Playhouse, Beethoven as I Knew Him ... and it was so WONDERFUL that I'm thinking about returning to see it again! I'm looking forward to him in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein later in the season and hope to see his pieces about Fryderyk Chopin and George Gershwin one day. We enjoyed an early dinner on the patio of the Beachcomber Cafe on the beach in Crystal Cove on the way home.

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Thought for Today
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." C.S. Lewis