Mimosa Tree
This tree in our neighborhood has the same name as the orange juice and champagne drink and is beautiful when it...
Passion Flower
This flower was spotted just around the corner from our house in a very unlikely hedge. It is the flower of the...
June 7, 2012 Maxim
If a double dip recession is so bad, why did they make it sound so...
Lotusland
It is spring in Southern California and to massacre a metaphor the low hanging fruit are nature pictures. We visited...
Simon Says Postcards 6/05/2012
"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts." Ella Fitzgerald American Singer Rim Of...
Power to the …….
If you give the State the power to do something for you, you give it an exact equivalent power to do something to...
My ticket to the MEDICARE Buffet
It came in the mail yesterday and I can start using it on July 1st. “If you think health care is expensive now,...
Tour of California
I went with Lillian, Barbara and Gordon to watch the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race a few weeks ago and had a...
Aging Humor
I've often been asked, “What do you old folks do now that you're retired?” Well...I'm fortunate to have a...
May 31, 2012 Maxim
"a very considerable degree of inequality...is not near so great an evil as a very small degree of...
