Vietnamese Shrimp Spring Rolls & Spicy Peanut Sauce. Yum! 

Peach Blossoms 

My Iris think it's spring. They are growing in thick, tall clusters along the back border of the garden. 

Meyer lemons make the tastiest lemonade. 

Camera Fun

I'm in love with the super macro setting on my Olympus C-60 digicam. I did slight touch ups with Picasa before uploading them using Hello.

I just adore the textural feeling of the photos. Click on each to get a larger version for full fuzzy, soft, bumpy, grainy effect.

Plum Blossoms. 

Texture 

Conch shell closeup 

Conch shell  

sleeping baby snail 

Iris in bloom 

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Missing Entries

Where oh where are my the posts I emailed in from my phone??

Cavalia Giraffe

Note the long, flowing, horse-like mane

Humor: CIA Interview

This piece of dark humor is from doug's newly married niece...

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The CIA had an opening for an assassin. After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists... Two men and a woman.

For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. "We must know that you will follow your instructions, no matter what the circumstances. Inside of this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill Her!!!" The man said, "You can't be serious. I could never shoot my wife." The agent said, "Then you're not the right man for this job."

The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the man came out with tears in his eyes." I tried, but can't kill my wife." The agent said, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."

Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one shot after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls.

After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman. She wiped the sweat from her brow, and said, "This gun is loaded with blanks. I had to beat him to death with the chair."

Moral: Women are evil. Don't mess with them.