Love the Brilliant Colours of Nature.....

Captured at the Richmond Community Garden at the far west end of Westminster Highway. I love taking close-ups. They look so huge, and most times they are just so tiny. Great fun! Jenny and I went last evening.

Thanks, Lorri and Kara

Beautiful flowers. The colours are awesome!

Rick has a new girlfriend.....

Her name is Lucy.

My friend Beatrice D says the caption should be "Every breath you take, Every move you make .... I'll be watching you..." LOL!

Stanley Park on Father's Day...

Looking across English Bay to Kitsilano area.

Ships out in Spanish Banks.


Love the close up. Click on it to see the fuzzies on the little flowers.

Some freak in the park - ROFL! (OK, so it's Tam...)

Hmmm - trees in Stanley Park - who knew! :D

It was difficult scraping some photos together. :D

Hollyhocks. Click for an excellent close up. :D


Not sure what this is, but just practicing with my macro lens. Still need a fricken tripod!

Fraser River Redux .....

It was a great day for just hanging in the car and reading (Rick) or watching THE SAINT (me) on my iPod. :D I did a lot of putzing around with my new Sony T700 camera and finally am figuring out where things are!

Anyway, I loved it when I was busy watching my movie, or playing Sudoku and all of a sudden I'd hear a big humming noise and turn around and - "Holy Shit, Rick, look at that huge ship!" They have a way of sneaking up on you! *G*

And this is one of them that snuck up on me. I just wish I had figured out where the VIDEO recording was located when that first ship above went by - it looked SO HUGE. It was very close, whereas this one was further away. Oh well, next time..... :D And that's a little George Shearing playing "Bluesette".

Rollin' on the river...

Have this week off. Been meeting up with RR at lunch time and doin' a little chillin' down on Dyke Road, looking out at the south arm of the Fraser River. We read our books and listened to Pat Metheny in the background.... It was a lovely way to spend an hour....

REAL renos......

Well, in the past month RR has painted the living room/dining area and the hallway and the ceiling as well. I love how this corner looks with the new mini blind! Woo! Still have a few minor things to finish to get things back in order. I don't think we have the energy to HAUL everything out of the bedroom and paint it as well.  zzzzzzzzzzzz  I guess we should decide that asap. 

The living/dining area is a lilac colour (not pink, as it seems), the hallway is a lovely cream colour, white ceilings, and the bedroom will eventually be painted a light coral colour.

sigh.... I guess we really should just break down and do it ... it's all that HAULING............ :D

I guess it isn't all THAT much work considering it hasn't been done in 7 years!

The vertical blinds in the living room. They are amazingly simple to install. 

Vertical Blinds

I was pleasantly surprised at how EASY these were to install. Just three clips screwed into the wall - the key is doing a great job on this part - and then you just snap the rod in, add the "vanes" and the valance, and away you go. They were about $40 and are plastic, but I really don't care. They do the job and work for me. They also really block out the sun fantastically so hopefully keeping the one shut during the day will keep the sun out and keep the joint cool. We'll put that one up tomorrow. :D

Twitter

I finally went to "protected" status on Twitter. Not that anyone cares what I say, but I was just getting too many advertisers and weirdos showing up. If interested, just ask me to add you and if I know you or you aren't a freak, I'll add you. :D

Update - changed my mind - too much of a pain in the arse to have it "protected". I'll just block the stupid advertisers. Now the whole world can watch me in peace and quiet. :D

It's that time of year again ......

This is just in the living room/office area.  Do you think I'm going overboard?  :)  I love my "fans"!!!!!!!!