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Up-stares Down-stares

OK, everyone, I feel badly. It has been how many weeks since I last posted? I admit it. My schedule has been overwhelmed and I don’t know with what really, as things have been somewhat unremarkable but jam-packed. I am back up at our main place in Valencia and have had a chance to recover […]

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Lake effects, no?

First off, Happy 2017! This may be a completely disjointed post. Hopefully short on verbiage and long on photos. We had a whirlwind Christmas with visitors and trips to the mountains, dinners out, and crazy weather. Seriously, we are having lots of precip, which for us is a miracle. Cold enough to drape everything around us […]

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Rode to joy

You will be gratified to see that this is not a wordy post, for a change because this has been a frenzied two weeks and the rest of the year portends to be no less harried. Time for updates. Autumn has finally arrived in Los Angeles, more or less. We had a scorching summer and the […]

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No woman is an island

Well, here I go again, apologizing. I meant to be more active on WP this last two weeks but the project got in the way. I am wrapping it up this week, so I should be back to normal shortly. I don’t intend to be absent, I have just been overwhelmed. There isn’t much new to report. […]

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Sunning up roses

This year is off to a great start. So, I thought I would reflect that in the name of the post and the pictures — all taken at the Rose Parade for the 137th Tournament of Roses, in Pasadena.  It seemed that whenever I went to Pasadena to take pictures in the past few years, […]

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