Kites, dogs, poppies
Tim "Due Diligence" Oren posted a photo of some beautiful, huge, octopus kites in Berkeley. I was reminded of my
visit there a couple of years ago, with my nephew Ben and his mother Mary.
A few other photos (from my 0x32nd B-Day party, and from that spring, which featured a whole lot of poppies in our backyard) can be found here.
In this picture, you can see the lavender in our back yard, tidily peering out from their planter. Wait 'till I upload the photos from this year (two years after that photo was taken) -- the lavender are taking over. 'Spretty cool.
That series also includes
my favorite titmouse picture, from that same year. (So far, it's the only photo I've uploaded to Flickr.) He was standing on top of our backyard birdhouse. This year, 2005, we had a family of titmice living in there, and the parents were working all day, tag-team style, to bring food to the chirping babies inside the bird house. It was just in the past week that I got up, went outside, and it was all quiet. Got that (literal) empty nest syndrome!:-) But the myriad butterflies are making up for it, so far.
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