Color Personality

I wish all these preference and diagnostic personality tests I take didn't tell me what a cool, logical person I am and that I should be a physicist or programmer or lawyer.  

The Permanence of Past Objects

attachment to objects which represent the lost past...
keep moving residences and redecorating in an attempt to replicate the lost past, the loss of identity, beloved dead family members..

We are greater than our past...

--from an interview with an author about immigrants to the U.S.

Flowers - Descanso Gardens

A trip to a lovely garden near Pasadena on April 18th My sister-in-law, Doris, and her husband, Jeff, my husband's brother, came to visit us from Vermont for the first time ever. His sister Katharine joined us too.  

The weather was wonderful, and we swam every day and shared SoCal lifestyle with them, spring just beginning for them in northerly Burlington where they live. Doris is quite a gardener herself, and we had a good day. Lunch on the beautiful patio area, just so so, but pleasant.

The irises were one of my childhood favorites.  I wish I knew the names of these. They are glorious.

This is "Julia Child", a floribunda with a marvelous fragrance, unlike the heavy fruity odor of some yellow roses.  They are my sister-in-law Katharine's favorite.

"Coco Loco", a strange pink-brown rose I found distinctive and had never seen except in catalogs.

The last of the lilacs - a few were left and the fragrance again powerful and evocative of my childhood.  John loves them, too, maybe more than I do!