King of the Tree

 

Random Heart: Sweet Pea Petal Edition

 

First

 

My first dahlia of 2022 has bloomed!

Take a Seat

 

One After the Other After the Other

 

Nesting dolls of rights being stripped away by right-wing ideologues, three of whom lied to the Senate about their position on Roe v. Wade in order to win confirmation: the largest represents today's overturning of Roe v. Wade; the next one could be Griswold v. Connecticut, which considered the right to use contraception; next, Obergefell v. Hodges, which says that same sex couples have a right to be legally married; then Lawrence v. Texas, which said that people have a right to privacy when it comes to how they have sex with each other. The next might be Loving v. Virginia, which gave interracial couples the right to marry, but Clarence Thomas is married to a white woman, Ginni Thomas, who had a very large role to play in the pathetic but dangerous attempt to overturn the lawful election of President Joe Biden, so he'll probably want to leave that one alone. 

That leaves our tiniest lady, whose face says it all: OMG, what is next?

P.S. On Monday, the regularly scheduled posts of flowers and birds will resume...

Bill Murray on a Utility Box

 

That is all...

Still Sweet

 

This year's crop of sweet peas is almost finished...they are still oh-so-fragrant and oh-so-lovely!

Say Hello to Summer...

 

...with a sunset that looks as if it were January! It's due to "monsoonal moisture"...

Obviously, the first four photos were taken facing west...but in the opposite direction was this one pink cloud.

Figgy

How pretty are fresh figs? I love the colors (and they are oh-so-YUM!).

 

Glowingly

 

Random Heart, Brentwood Sidewalk Editon

 

Strawberry Moon

 

Surprise!

 

HOW did I NOT know this Muffler Man was along the 405 Freeway in Carson?!? (For those not from SoCal, that's just south of L.A.). Not very good photos, obviously, as they were taken on the fly from the moving car, but quite exciting to all of a sudden see him! 

Peony Redux

 

Can't get enough of them! They are amazing...

And in the midst of one of the bunches were two of these oddities. Apparently these are anemone peonies...who knew? Obviously, not me! Since we can't grow them here I am not really up on all of the many forms these beauties take...

Signs o' Yuma

 

And whatever this is: it's a statue/mannequin on the sidewalk for no discernable reason...

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other...

 

Atmospheric

 

Sweet Pea Bonanza

 

This is just TODAY'S crop...

The Real Deal

 

Actual foziewisps! 

Sherbet Sky

 

This was from last week...at this time of year the sunset is usually obscured by May gray/June gloom, but not this day! 

Sakura Hummingbird

 

I have been organizing/editing my photographs and came upon these lovely little hummingbird pix. Enjoy! 

Purple Rain