It's a fascinating riddle, how memories are seeded. Mike, native citizen blood coursing through his body, is an accomplished flute player and basket weaver. Here he is a weaver of memories. This little one is mesmerized.
remembering
All of us were captivated by the Cal Poly Lion Dance team.
They came to Cambria's East Village to help dedicate the Greenspace Chinese Temple, an historic site paying homage to an historic village presence. The Lion Dance Team has been part of the Cal Poly culture for 70 years.
the bad memory scrapbook
The nincompoop is back from his first international tour. He's telling people it was a home run. Right! Did you see the faces of the NATO and G-7 leaders? Trump is toxic but he is due credit for telling NATO that all members of the alliance need to carry their weight, financially. He is correct and other Presidents have said likewise. The flip side of the trump role is that NATO and G-7 nations say they can no longer count on the US. More damaging is the assessment that trump's attitude has weakened the alliance.
My biggest bone to pick with the bone head is his refusal to support the Paris accords in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 195 nations have studied and determined the accords are necessary. The US is backing out because our still unfit, unqualified and increasingly idiot bully boy president ignores science, the pope's encyclical and most of the civilized world. In his world "climate changes is fake news." In a better world he would be tarred and feathered.
woven from youth
There is something especially civilized about a pause to remember, those who have served and those who have passed. My grandmother and her sisters called it "decoration day." My parents and my brothers and I made annual trips of respect. I remember those days and visits that that now seem long ago.
Karl and Mary Helen
dad and mom
dad and mom
John
brother
brother
Jim
brother
bring on summer
There was a time when Memorial day signaled a time to move to white dinner jackets on formal occasions. Khaki or seersucker was permitted and the pools were opened. All that was a long time ago. It is comforting to reach the Holiday that marks clicking into a summer mind set...even an endless summer.
time for our annual visit from another world
See you down the trail.
I always enjoy your photos of the cacti and succulents show. Some of the plants are truly eerie.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there were so many cacti. Our lilacs are getting ready to bloom, the apple trees are in bloom, and it's starting to thunder as I speak. Late spring in montana.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother loved cacti. On the frozen tundra of North Dakota, she nurtured them on window sills, moving them according to the seasons so they could catch the sun.
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