Garden pictures

Ornamental pepper "Black Pearl" that has ripened
Zinnia

And now the bubbling brook of the outing

The setting

It flows over the rocks
Swirls around in haste
Bubbles
Water laughs - "What larks!"

Flowers of Sunday outing

Last Sunday we went to the Japanese garden. Hardly had we entered when a sudden storm blew up, wringing itself out after about 20 minutes. We were sheltered by the awning of the entrance to the Garden, along with a motley group of individuals. Afterwards, I took pictures of the flowers and flowing water in a brook, swollen after the rain.
These are the flowers, of a most interesting type.
Some lightly-fragrant flowers
After the rain
Blue flower
So what color is that?
The hoi polloi of flowers

Yosef at work

My father took this cellphone picture a while back of me in full gear during a gardening day.
Kibbutznik Yosef

Pictures from garden

Sprightly lemon balm with shiny bug
Lemon balm doing much better in bigger pot
Lime and chocolate mint
Basil: "Ruffles"
Ornamental pepper: "Black Pearl" (ripening to red)
Pepper with butt shape

A trip to Tea's Nursery and flowers

Bougainvillea
While finishing up shopping at Teas Nursery for important supplies and plants for the first time ever, my mother took some pictures of the many esoteric varieties of roses, most named after celebrities.
Variegated flowers of butterfly bush
Rose
Rose

These are some pictures of cotton

Cotton
On one of the streets in my neighborhood, there is a house with a cotton plant growing in front. Every so often I see that a new cotton pod has formed and opened, and sometimes I take one. Recently I photographed some cotton with its pod.

Please Watch (and maybe donate)

This is from the NRDC. We must prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. As it says in Uva Letzion in Shacharit - "...shall not be withdrawn from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring ... from this moment and forever." Please take this to heart for your children's futures and to ensure that we have a beautiful exemplar of wildlife tundra still there for generations to come.

NRDC Video

Evening.

I called KUHF 88.7 FM and asked them to play the Mozkowski Etude No. 4, Op. 72. They played 1-3, but not 4. And I was so hoping to get it on tape cassette. Oh well. Check this site out:

NetDisaster

THis allows you to "destroy" the web-site you put in in any way you wish, selected from a list. Really Fun. This too:

Dig a hole through earth - where will you come out?

Some pictures...

The lizard on Ester

Word Wealth etymology adventures

Guess what these words mean:
1. bisaaltiotic
2. bicuitemial
3. visuovalentudology
4. dextriskophobiogamyotic (hint: two O's are for ornamentation)

Answers:
1. pertaining to something not twice the height
2. blood that is cooked twice
3. The study of the ability to have seeing power (eyesight)
4. a little fear of the right marriage

I made these up, and almost forgot the definitions to 3 and 4, even needing Mrs. Sternthal, my British Literature teacher, to figure it out. It was amusing to crack.

A day at the pool

On Sunday, everyone but Ester went to the pool, and had two serene hours there, with no noise breaking the silence (except for cicadas). Here follow some pictures of some fun:

Yosef performs a cannonball (and gets camera wet)
Underwater handstands
Yosef in mid-air (ready to become a cannonball)
Rebecca's splash-less jump