Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day: Garden Scene.
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It has been such a joy to have Becky back with her Squares Challenge.
This month’s themes are:
- Move Forward
- Reconstruct
- Renew
- Burgeoning
I am cooling my heels at home this weekend. The potted geranium on the garden table looks so much better than it did before I left, which tells me it prefers to be left alone!
A wee flower (diascia?) has taken root around one of my potted roses.
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I visited the Henry Moore Studio and Gardens in Hertfordshire last week. Such a beautiful, park-like setting! The property was studded with towering, flowering trees.
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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California has its eyes firmly fixed on the future. This is no place for laggards. This is, you can imagine, exhausting for those of us of a certain age. In the past two days, I exchanged words with someone who complained about my parking, and then someone beeped me because I was slow to back out of a parking space. The rudeness never ends. Nevertheless, this is home.
Posting for Becky’s Squares Challenge: MOVE
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Everyone knows that when I am in London, I stay in only one place: Bloomsbury. And I go to only one bookstore: the London Review Bookshop. I usually linger by the front, examining what’s new. But I spend most of my time below-stairs, sometimes sitting on the orange couch, examining books about science, exploration, nature, and so forth.
This month, Becky’s Squares Challenge is about MOVING. Her latest post is called “Let’s Stride.”
Here are a collection of books from the lower level of the London Review Bookshop that have to do with explorations and wanderings (in nature):
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Home from a trip, still studying how the garden held up.
The front yard is speckled with color — nothing full on, but bits here and there. The Australian firecracker bush has the most fiery red flowers, they glow in the heat. Would love to take close-ups of them, but they’re close to the street and I get enough stares taking pictures of my roses.
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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As regular readers know, I’ve just returned from a glorious trip. Trying to adjust to the realities of American convenience food (and thinking, every day, about how much I miss the food of Spain).
In thinking about this challenge, I came across photos of Mexican and Filipino food, all heavily influenced by Spain (because colonization). The largest picture is of a wee Filipino bakery, in a wee island, smack dab in the center of the Philippine archipelago, and it survives by selling only one product: bread.
Posting for Jez’s “I’m a Fan of . . . ” Challenge!
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Singapore’s Changi Airport: In a few years’ time, the greenery will completely cover the support structures. It will be gorgeous.
Posting for Becky’s Squares Challenge, May 2024.
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Caught a glimpse of these pink roses, growing in an abandoned churchyard. Snuck my arm through the lot’s iron railings to get the shot.
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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This trip to London had many “firsts.” Such as: “my first time to see a play in London since 2019” or “first time back at the Harold Pinter Theatre since 2019” or “discovering there’s a TKTS in Leicester Square,” which led to my watching a Jez Butterworth play for the first time since I saw The Ferryman several years ago.
This was also the first time I tried Poppies fish and chips (thanks, nephew!). We ate at the branch in Old Compton Road. That was my first time to eat in London’s Chinatown since I stopped for a quick meal at Hung (restaurant specialty: Peking Duck) before seeing a production of The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime.
This is a post dedicated to the idea of moving forward. Thanks, Becky, for reviving the Squares Challenge this month, and for allowing me to document this trip! So fun!