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Two entries today...I may have mentioned earlier that I went to the Flower and Garden show at the Convention Center in Seattle. It was really inspiring and fun. I took quite a few pictures. Looking back through them reminded me how charming Gazebos are especially when you add a little setting for two...a little afternoon meal in the white wrought iron...isn't it inviting? Ah Spring.....Maria
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Have you considered getting a new cellphone lately? I got a new cellphone...it's a Cingular Motorola SLVR or 'Sliver'..got the pink one. Why is this phone so special? It plays Itunes music...
I can load up to 100 songs from my computer Itunes files and it has a little microphone so I can play and hear the songs with or without earphones. My Ipod Shuffle battery died recently and I was debating whether to get a new one..then I learned that Cingular had these little phones...I do miss the flip top feature but not that much. It's amazing how being able to recall a favorite tune any time of day or night can lift your spirits. It also takes still and moving pictures. It can go play for six hours without a recharge and has an airplane mode where you can shut off the cellphone but still listen to music. What a nice feature! I used it in the garden today when I did a little spot gardening....too. La de da!
Maria
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Green reminds me of many things...Spring, St. Patrick's day, ..my eyes...they're green too. It's an interesting color in cars...these two would be great in a St. Patty's day parade...a green bug and a green scion...one curvy the other boxy. Not a lot of cars this color.....wear a little green and celebrate your favorite green thing!
MARIA
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It's Monday and time to do something to keep clear of the alligators. A little planning ahead and some knowledge about the week will keep me clear of this week's alligators. A couple photos I took in Mexico reminded me of that this morning. The first photo is one of a rather innocent and shy looking little kitty. Don't be fooled this cat has figured out how to keep clear of the alligators as it plans to get food for the day...as is evidenced by the second photo where the kitty calmly walks by the alligator not more than a couple of feet away. Why is this possible? There are alligators all over the golf course and creeks around the place we stayed in Ixtapa. At 3:00 every day they feed any hungry alligators with raw chicken meat. This keeps the alligators happy and docile. They are fenced in at the feeding area but do roam free on the golf course. Makes for an adventurous round, don't you think. Especially interesting is that in the alligator infested pond the golf course regularly has someone come in and get the golf balls in the pond...you really have to know what you are doing there. In any, case...plan ahead and watch out for those time alligators to make sure they are fed.....it's best to stay clear of them by doing things when planned if you can. Monday is a good time to assess which of your time alligators need feeding...don't you think? I've got two with particularly sharp teeth....Tax time and College Scholarship paperwork time......:)
This entry is about seeing bridges through windows..restaurent windows to be exact. One of my favorite restaurents here in Seattle is Chinook's by the Ballard Bridge just past downtown Seattle. As you can see the Bridge is open most likely for a sailboat. The marina you can see is Fisherman's Terminal and holds many boats. You can take a walk after you eat on the wharf to see all the boats and imagine what it must be like to be a fisherman.
The second picture is looking outside the window from Joey's an upscale but nice restaurent bar at the south end of Lake Union in Seattle..right downtown. The bridge you see through the window is the Aurora Avenue bridge. It is an interesting bridge...underneath it a famous troll on the north end. A sculpture big enough to dwarf a volkswagon bug which it holds in it's hand...will have to get a picture of that one later. It's one of the two main north/south routes through Seattle...and ta da....my husband worked on earthquake proofing it a few years back.
I love to look through windows. Bridges have always fascinated me. Symbolically a bridge helps you get across something difficult..a wide chasm or a body of water. Many bridges are a marvel of humankind. I like the peaceful ones too. Although you probably go to a restaurent to just eat and maybe visit...take the opportunity to look out the window..you will never know what you will see.
I'm back in business! This entry should catch me up for the last two entries....rather than change them. Thanks to the help of a fellow journaler I found out I can get to my Files in my FTP Space by going to http://hometown.aol.com/_fm/mt.ssp?a=b ...however, I did have to do it in a back door manner. But once I got there I could open the file by clicking on it...copy the picture and then get back to my journal entry and paste it in. Got this from a journaler who's initials are JJ...here is the link back to JJ"s journal Adventures of an Eclectic Mind. Wow...I'm so happy!!!!!
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I seem to have lost the ability to add pictures from my FTP space...since I haven't tried any other locations except my computer you may have a little wait until I figure it out. Forget animations for awhile. As a result, I thought these photos were appropriate. Yep, I'm just having a ball or two or three or more...LOL.
While in Mexico I spotted these sculpture pieces in the lobby. They were beach ball size and larger sized cement balls. There was no sign, which was fine since my Spanish is a little rusty. They were just so mesmerizing...all these round objects, manmade and pleasing to the eye. What is it about round objects? Maybe that they remind us of the solar system and it's vastness or the molecular world and it's invisibility. We are all surrounded with circular objects......rolling, rolling, rolling... spinning, spinning, spinning... That's it for now. Take it easy, Yours, truly. Maria
PS: I'm also having trouble with my computer. Keep getting script errors when I try to print emails or directly off the internet. I will be doing diagnostics but it is possible I may have to reload some of my program software....somehow I think some critical file got corrupted. Stay tuned for more of the computer drama..and yes...I have backed up all my pictures and other data files.
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