Rose Parade, January 2, 2006
Rose Parade, January 1, 2007
Last year, it rained on our parade. This year is a completely different story with chamber-of-commerce weather and a beautiful Rose Parade and Rose Bowl football game.
Culture
Merry Christmas
Christmas Day 2006 – For a couple of years now we’ve decorated our tree with predominantly red, white and blue lights and ornaments to honor our country and our military men and women. As we celebrate the day at home with our families and friends, let us remember those in service to this great country on this day. Remember them with thoughts, silent prayers and especially by supporting them through your gifts to any of these charities, or any other organizations dedicated to our service members world wide.
God bless all of our service people.
Christmas Roses
These beautiful “Freedom” roses make a festive centerpiece on our holiday table. Merry Christmas Everybody!
Christmas Flowers
I promised to show you in a previous post, this beautiful red amaryllis when all eight lovely flowers came out. And just in time for Christmas too!.
How the Chinese See Us
While browsing through the activity logs for the blog, I ran across a referring link that aroused my curiosity. When I followed the link, I found myself looking at our blog in Chinese! Apparently, Babel Fish, a service of AltaVista offers a universal web page translator.
It won’t translate words in images or Flash™ and it leaves unknown words as they were. Fun to try in a couple of different languages.
North Pole MC
We drove through the neighborhood today after running some errands. We passed a lot of homes that had Christmas decorations, but this one stood out.
What should we call him? ZZ Claus? Hell’s Santas? SC Rider? Any other suggestions?
We especially liked the sign in the window behind Santa.
Flower Shot of the Week
We had occasion to visit our local home improvement emporium today. Even when we’re there for another purpose, I always like to see what’s going on in the garden section. What else but poinsettias? A sea of red with green undertones. One of these beauties became mine and sits on the dining room table (until we move it to accommodate the Christmas tree next weekend, that is).
