June 18, 2020 at 5:30 pm (destinations, Flowers, Links, Lists)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, summer
Love Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week. Self loves flowers!
Self took her camera to her garden to try and capture “one single flower.” These are the roses growing in her front yard.
Barbra Streisand Rose
Frida Kahlo Rose
Rabble Rouser Rose
More flowers:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
May 24, 2020 at 3:17 pm (Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Lists, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: California, flower photography, Garden
As many countries are opening up a bit from lock-down, and I was inspired by the soft glory of spring nature in my part of the world, I thought we would indulge in some Delicate Colours! They are everywhere in nature, but also to be found anywhere you look, in for example fashion, art and architecture. — Leya
Self is always happy to participate in a Photo Challenge. Anything to distract from Shelter-in-Place, entering the third month here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
First: HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!
To everyone who has a loved one in this fight, or has lost a loved one, blessings.
Hydrangeas on Front Porch: May 2020
Iceberg Roses in Front Yard, May 2020
Looking at the Garden from the Kitchen Window, 24 May 2020. The curtains were from World Market, which has since closed.
Look at these beautiful galleries:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
May 4, 2020 at 4:43 pm (Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, postaday, Weather)
Tags: Garden, Mondays, Redwood City, spring
Here are a couple of images from self’s archives:
Cistus (Rock Rose) on front porch after rain
Also After Rain: Clematis Montana Rubens
Backyard Watering
Stay safe. Stay tuned.
April 29, 2020 at 2:24 am (Books, Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Places, postaday)
Tags: websites
from The World Is a Book:
Due to the lockdown, we are spending more time at home. But, hopefully this isn’t limiting our interest in photographing. This week, we invite you to share photos taken at home.
Most of her corona virus life is spent in her living room and dining room:
She recently bought a hanging basket which is just above her front steps:
And she’s often browsing her bookshelves for distraction:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 23, 2020 at 4:03 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, Redwood City, spring
Self loves joining these foto challenges. Since Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is SEEING, self took her camera to the backyard to check on how her flowers are doing:
Exciting: Her Winsome Rose is finally blooming!
More blooms are opening on her Fourth of July Rose:
Stay tuned.
April 19, 2020 at 6:17 pm (Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: Garden, Redwood City, spring
What a lovely, lovely challenge from Lens-Artists. Mornings are the favorite parts of self’s day.
In the early morning, self loves walking around her yard, seeing which plants have started blooming. Her first rose to bloom is her Fourth of July:
Fourth of July Rose started blooming a few days ago.
Here’s a Fourth of July, Side View
Rock Rose (Cistus) on Front Porch
Stay tuned.
April 17, 2020 at 1:33 am (Books, Flowers, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, Brideshead Revisited, English writers, fantasy, Garden, mysteries, novel, reading lists, Redwood City, Swedish writers
Some years, self reads by theme. There was the year she read only women authors. Another year, she read only memoir. She remembers the summer she decided to read everything ever written by Henning Mankell (That was a very fun summer)
Last year, hmm, she doesn’t think she had a theme last year. Looking at her reading list for 2020, it’s clear 2020 is the year for reading fiction. Just straight-up good literary fiction.
Self read twelve books so far 2020.
Here were her top reads (arranged in the order in which she read them):
She’s currently reading her first Liane Moriarty: Big Little Lies.
She’s hoping to get into the Ruth Galloway detective series. She’s just ordered Book # 1, The Crossing Places.
Even if there were no “shelter in place,” self knows she would still be doing the same things she’s doing right now: reading, writing, watching TV, gardening, cooking, laundry.
Sharing a picture of her Fourth of July rose, just starting to bloom.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 3, 2020 at 1:55 pm (Flowers, postaday)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, Redwood City, seasons, spring
Self’s topic is WHITE.
There are many white flowers in her Redwood City garden, blooming now. Such as:
April 1, 2020 at 1:52 am (Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links)
Tags: California, clematis, Garden, Redwood City, seasons, spring
This, too, shall pass.
Self knows.
Just look at all the plants in her garden, starting to come back, starting to put out blooms. The maples, the roses, and the clematis looked like sticks all winter.
Japanese Maples are leafing out.
Clematis montana rubens is starting to bloom.
This cistus (rock rose) was the first of her plants to bloom.
Stay tuned, stay safe, and stay hopeful!
February 29, 2020 at 6:34 pm (destinations, Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: Garden, Redwood City, Saturday
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge, YARD, is a great one, practically tailor-made for self. When the weather is good, self spends much time in her yard. She’s extra-inspired now, as the trellis has been painted.
This was the day the painters arrived:
And this is what her front yard looked like when the plumbers arrived (She decided to take her son’s advice and have the decades-old galvanized iron pipes replaced with copper).
Meanwhile, in the backyard, her plum tree is starting to bloom.
Spring is a gorgeous time of year in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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