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I worked on a couple of new ‘industrial’ images this evening. The first is another in what could easily become a chair series…if I needed a gimmick 🙂 But seriously, where the hell do all of these chairs come from. I’ve got a couple more that I snapped pictures of this weekend.

But more fun is the new part of the Bayshore neighborhood that I found this weekend. This is an area called Islais Creek (or Islais Inlet). It is a remnant of two former creeks that were slowly filled in over the years to expand the waterfront. I may have to return for more images after we return from vacation.

Well, it would seem that Bobgirl’s reminiscing about Elena #1 triggered a response from the other side of the globe. But not a good one.

I think we’re reaching the “angry” phase of the Elena story, where people don’t send her money and she acts “offended”.

Sorry. But I understand you do not want that I arrived to you or you do not want to help me on trip to you. It is insulting. I think that you write to me only for dialogue. Is it the truth?

I’ll try to trigger another reply, but this could very well be Elena’s swan song.

I would never have thought that I would be writing rain updates in late May! But there is just this odd disturbance rumbling through, producing a few days of scattered showers.

So, if I can return to rain blogging, then I can take a few new images in my industrial series. Today’s theme: color. I continue to find new parts of the Bayshore neighborhood that I haven’t been through. It’s strangely comforting to drive around in the early morning light.

But life is not ALL rain and graffiti. It is spring, after all. So, I present here three springtime images. The first is of one of Jeff’s favorite orchids…this one smells like chocolate! Jeff has four orchids in bloom at the moment. The third image below is of one of our lemon trees, which is now producing enormous lemons. So, I’m making lemon-butter grilled shrimp tonight 🙂

Jeff and I spent our Saturday running errands for our vacation, which starts on Wednesday. Naturally, a portion of the preparations was in the garden. Most everything in the garden is watered by a drip irrigation system that I installed last summer, but when we buy new plants, they tend to sit in pots for a couple of weeks while we decide where to put them. So, today, we ran drip lines to all of the new plants.

During our garden time, Jeff noticed a visiting butterfly. He flitted around the garden, following the intermittent sunbeams. I caught a couple of photos, including one of him sitting on our snowball bush.

The butterfly has the colors of a Monarch, but the patterns don’t match any photo that I can find. So, a free latte for anyone who can name this guy correctly. (I’m guessing that either Buddy or my dad will have the edge on this one.)

[FYI, in the spirit of full disclosure, I discovered that our snowball bush is NOT a Japanese Snowball as I announced a few weeks ago. Instead, I believe it is a Common Snowball.]

Well, I’m back from the Land of Tassel Loafers. Something about a conference brings out the worst in fashion. But no, I did NOT take any more photos of bad shoes…although these would have been even better. It seems that when it’s 90+ degrees outside, the leather tassel loafers are worn with shorts and without socks. Lovely.

So, I amused myself in the waning parts of the conference trying to find the oddest give-away at the show. Light up pens and kitchy paperweights are the norm (and people line up 10-15 deep for a tee shirt)…but those are boring.

So my choice for Best in Show was the Waste Alleviation and Gel kit. I think everyone on my flight home had one, since the plane smelled like a men’s room.

Anyhow, I am home. The air was cool and refreshing last night as I slept. Today, we had an odd May visitor: a light rain. (This will ready us for Europe next week, where there are scattered showers all over the forecast.)