Opening Up

Things are opening up here in California, including my Agapanthus blooms.

agapanthus blooms, scapes, flowers, california, back yardHere is my agapanthus about a week ago. You can see 13 scapes.

agapanthus blooms, scapes, flowers, california, back yardLast weekend the first pair of brachts on my agapanthus had started to open. The brachts are the two leaves that enclose the flowers and are on the end of the scapes.

agapanthus blooms, scapes, flowers, california, back yardI missed the first opening, but here is another one.

agapanthus blooms, scapes, flowers, california, back yardYou can see that they slowly open and unfurl.

agapanthus blooms, scapes, flowers, california, back yardHere you can see even more bracts in different stages of opening.

agapanthus blooms, scapes, flowers, california, back yardHere is what the agapanthus plant looks like now. Quite a bit of difference in a week.

Next week I should see the nice purple flowers open.

It is nice to see things opening up here in California.

Steven

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Throwback Thursday – Toys

One of the things that we always seem to remember from our childhood is toys.

50s toys, etch a sketch, mr. potato head, toysIt is always interesting to see toys from different eras. I remember not only toys from when I was a kid, but also toys from when my parents were kids. How many remember going to grandparents or great aunts and uncles and playing with the toys that your parents generation played with?

Mr Potato head, SFO museum, culture, potato head, no plastic spudMy mother remembers playing with Mr. Potato Head when you had to provide the potato or other vegetable.

birthday cake, lincoln logs, wagon, play dough, overallsFor us,  birthdays were when we usually got toys. It is good that we had pictures to show which of us owned a toy.

Birthday Gifts - Car Transport - 70's Toys - Happy Birthday - Metal ToysI still have this car transport truck tucked away in a closet just a few feet away from me.

Big Doll, Brother and sister, pajamas, pjsI can’t leave out my sister, she always had a lot of dolls to play with when she wasn’t treating me like one 🙂

Little Red Wagon, Birthday present, Old Truck, Memories, BowtieMany of us had little red wagons, they were a great toy as we could carry our other toys around in them.

Bike, Schwinn Bicycle, Big Handlebars, Over the handlebarsOf course, a bike could be considered a toy,  but one that could take us further away and into more trouble. Like playing in the creek at Wildwood Park.

Steven

 

 

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