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[jazzbo]

[jazzbo]

Yvonne Elliman

[JSngry]

[Aggie87]

One of our prickly pear cactuses (I know the word is cacti but it sounds pretentious to me) is about to have a ton of blooms.

[jazzbo]

Awesome photo! Our dogwood bloomed this week and it looks as if our rhododendron will bloom next week. My favorite time of year.

[Aggie87]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Awesome photo! Our dogwood bloomed this week and it looks as if our rhododendron will bloom next week. My favorite time of year.

Mine as well!  It's a relatively brief time here in the desert when there's a little pop of color to things.  Then the long hot summer with muted colors and many plants going dormant for the summer.  It's an interesting contrast to other places I've lived where things go more dormant in the winter months.  

[jazzbo]

52 minutes ago, Aggie87 said:

Mine as well!  It's a relatively brief time here in the desert when there's a little pop of color to things.  Then the long hot summer with muted colors and many plants going dormant for the summer.  It's an interesting contrast to other places I've lived where things go more dormant in the winter months.  

Yes, that's quite different than here. These few weeks are the unfolding of the green that will dominate the summer. And summer here can be a bit humid but is beautiful, as is the fall. But the emergence of foilage in the early Spring feels spiritual, mystic, I love this period.

 

[rostasi]

[rostasi]

[rostasi]

Look at these titles...

Edited May 6 by rostasi

[Kevin Bresnahan]

[rostasi]

world's smallest dog ("Pearl" - 3.6 inches tall) meets
world's tallest dog ("Reggie" - 3 foot, 4 inches tall)

[rostasi]

Radio station shaped like a radio:

[JSngry]

 

[rostasi]

Quote

We endlessly scroll through information on our phones today, but back in the 1930s some lucky Americans could scroll through a radio-delivered newspaper each morning. This used radio stations to beam information to local homes overnight, where it would be printed out at an excruciating 15 minutes per page. The idea became commercial reality thanks to William Finch and his $125 receivers, but thanks to information loss due to static, annoying paper jams and the sheer expense involved, the dream came to an end in 1952 when Finch’s company went bankrupt.

 

[JSngry]

[rostasi]

[JSngry]

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[JSngry]

21 minutes ago, rostasi said:

Toys R Us. There's yet to be a fully adequate replacement.

[rostasi]

[JSngry]

26 minutes ago, rostasi said:

 

Plano is not without such.

[rostasi]

My high school English teacher is a librarian in Plano.

[JSngry]

Shouldn't she be retired by now?

[GA Russell]

On 5/17/2025 at 11:02 AM, rostasi said:

I liked Borders' CD selection.