March 6, 2019 at 5:25 pm (destinations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, indulgence, Redwood City, restaurants
For this week’s Fun Foto Challenge, PATTERNS, self is posting pictures from Lovejoy’s, an English-style tearoom tucked away in downtown Redwood City, CA, only a block from the library; and a picture of a plant with bright orange flowers that just began sprouting in her backyard. This winter saw heavy rain, hopefully in a month or so there will be tons of flowers blooming.
Tea at Lovejoy’s, downtown Redwood City, 1 March 2019
Adorable Porcelain Cup and Saucer, Perfect for Tea!
About to Bloom: 28 February 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 4, 2019 at 11:48 pm (destinations, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, California, Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, inspiration, Ireland, photography, Redwood City
Cee Neuner has very interesting prompts. This week’s is MONOTONES. Love it.
Lake Annagmakerrig: 4:30 a.m., 8 November 2018 (Just realized that it’s too light in the photograph for 4:30 a.m. DUH! The photo is time-stamped for California time, which is eight hours ahead of Ireland. The actual time in Ireland when self took the picture was 12:30 p.m.)
It amuses self to think about how the first color that usually comes to mind when one thinks of Ireland is green.
Clouds, Annaghmakerrig: 7:30 a.m. (California time, which means 3:30 p.m. in Ireland), 7 November 2018
Fatsia, Backyard, Redwood City: 11 a.m., 26 September 2018
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November 13, 2018 at 9:19 pm (Books, destinations, Lists, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: fantasy, Garden, His Dark Materials, inspiration, novel, Oxford, Philip Pullman
All locations in Oxford (or adjoining):
His Dark Materials locations:
- Exeter College (Jordan College in the books)
- The Bodleian Library
- Oxford Botanical Garden (Lyra and Will’s Bench is here)
- The Pitt-Rivers Museum
- The Covered Market
- Christ Church
- Story Museum (to see Philip Pullman’s head-of-chapter drawings from His Dark Materials)
The Book of Dust locations:
- Walk Paths Along the Isis
- Port Meadow
- Wolvercote (a 1-hour walk from Port Meadow): The Trout and the nearby priory
- Jericho area: Juxon Street and The Butterfly Tattoo
- The Ashmolean
- The White Horse Pub next to Blackwell’s
It was a spectacularly beautiful day. Self started out from Oxford City Centre and made it all the way to the Oxford Botanic Garden:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 1, 2018 at 10:10 am (destinations, Filipino Writers, Flowers, Links, Places)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Garden, Redwood City
It’s been several weeks since self has participated in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
This week’s prompt is: PLACES PEOPLE LIVE.
Self has lived in Redwood City, California since 1992. Redwood City is halfway between San Francisco and San Jose.
She has flowers on her front porch, and shelves and shelves of books inside:
Front Porch, September 2018
A back room overlooks her deck:
Back Room: September 2018
Her backyard has a lot of trees, including three figs, an apple tree, and a laurel tree:
Backyard, August 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 26, 2018 at 6:23 pm (Flowers, Links, Places)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, inspiration, inspirations, Redwood City
Still working off Cee Neuner’s current Fun Foto Challenge: PASTEL COLORS.
It’s a really fun way to pass the time: walking around the backyard, snapping pictures!
Backyard, Redwood City, 26 September 2018
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September 19, 2018 at 8:36 pm (Flowers, Links, Places)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, photography, Redwood City
Self went around her backyard today, taking pictures of her garden (in close-up), selecting subjects that matched Cee’s current Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 19, 2018 at 3:38 pm (Flowers, Holidays)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, nostalgia, Redwood City, summer
Colors. How self loves them.
To make it even better, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is VIBRANT Colors.
Here are a few pictures self took this past summer:
One of self’s earliest rose purchases was this Fourth of July.
From Redwood City’s Annual Fourth of July Parade:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 5, 2018 at 4:26 pm (Food and Drink, Places)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, Golden Gate Park, Menlo Park, San Francisco, summer
Self really loves the Cee Neuner Fun Foto Challenge this week:
LIME or LIGHT GREEN
So, she had another go at it.
At the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, July 2018
Also from the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, July 2018
Food Truck, Menlo Park Art & Wine Festival, July 2018
Summer 2018 was GREAT.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 17, 2018 at 7:59 pm (Flowers, Surprises)
Tags: California, Fridays, Garden, Redwood City, summer
Masses of these started blooming last week:
Self did a wee bit of watering:
Summer’s almost gone.
Stay tuned.
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August 12, 2018 at 5:00 pm (Books, Conversations, Recommended, Sundays, Women Writers)
Tags: Daphne du Maurier, English writers, Garden, mysteries, novel, reading lists
We bent down, passing underneath, and when I stood straight again, brushing the raindrops from my hair, I saw that the valley was behind us, and the azaleas, and the trees, and, as Maxim had described to me that afternoon many weeks ago in Monte Carlo, we were standing on a little narrow cove, the shingle hard and white under our feet, and the sea was breaking on the shore beyond us.
Maxim smiled down at me, watching the bewilderment on my face.
“It’s a shock, isn’t it?” he said, “no one ever expects it. The contrast is too sudden, it almost hurts.” He picked up a stone and threw it across the beach for Jasper. “Fetch it, good man,” and Jasper streaked away in search of the stone, his long black ears flapping in the wind.
The enchantment was no more, the spell was broken. We were mortal again, two people playing on a beach.
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