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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

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    HAPPY NEW YEARS AND

    A ROSE FOR THE ROSE BOWL AND PARADE

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
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    yesterday, My Mom turned 98 years old...

  • PauletteK
    PauletteK Member Posts: 1,279

    Lisa Happy Birthday to your mom!

    Beautiful pictures thank you for sharing.

    Here is some lovely flowers pictures image

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  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,072

    Lisa, that is awesome. She is beautiful!

    Scottie

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Lisa, happy birthday to your beautiful mom. That is amazing.

    We just had to put my 92 year old mom in assisted living this week and it has been heartbreaking for us as she did not want to go but needed to.

    Joanne, nice pic for moving in a car so fast.

    Paulette, your beautiful flower pics makes me want spring to get here NOW!

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,928

    I'm planning to promise my kids that I will shuffle off to assisted living without a fuss when they think it is necessary. I understand why people don't want to go, but making their kids feel guilty makes it worse. I hope they appreciate my gesture when the time comes. And I hope I'm "with it" enough to remember my promise.

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Wren, my mom has been battling dementia for the last seven years so if she was her usual self she would not want to be a burden. I have a dear friend who is in her upper 80's and she always told me she did not want to be a burden to her family. Now she has dementia pretty bad and with some paranoia thrown into the mix she thinks her family is out to get her. It is just a very sad disease that takes it's toll probably more on the family than the person themselves.

  • 7of9
    7of9 Member Posts: 474

    My in laws at Christmas...they went all out!image

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    They certainly did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful.

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,928

    Looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
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  • PauletteK
    PauletteK Member Posts: 1,279

    Great shot Lisa!!!


    Lookout to the Pear Tree from inside my house

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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

    where is the like button!

  • PauletteK
    PauletteK Member Posts: 1,279

    Let’s have a close upon these pear flowers

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    Took this one when I did my walk this morning


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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

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    My backyard buddy

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Love the bird Lisa. Is that a woodpecker?

    Love the beautiful window and view, Paulette. Love the flowers. What are the yellow ones? Makes my longing for spring even more so. We have a long ways to go yet.


  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Lisa, I love that cute little bird. Do you know what it is?

  • TaRenee
    TaRenee Member Posts: 406

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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

    I think it's a phoebe.

  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    TaRenee, nice snow shot. Cute pic.

    Lisa, I was watching a documentary on hummingbirds yesterday on the National Geographic channel. Makes me more wishing spring would get here than ever!!!


    I don't know if you remember the waterfall pics I shared back in the fall but after having some frigid temps this season we had a January thaw today but not enough to make these pics look like the waterfall that they really are.

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  • PauletteK
    PauletteK Member Posts: 1,279

    Nancy, the yellow flowers name Angel Trumpet.

    I'm from California and we don't have snow, so nice to see all these snow pictures.

    Took a few flowers picture today,

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    I won’t know the name of the flowers on the last one.


  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,928

    I don't think I've ever seen the flowers in the 2nd one. Very unusual. Are you growing it, or did you see it out in a public garden?

  • PauletteK
    PauletteK Member Posts: 1,279

    Wren, that little bell flowers are from the Vietnamese restaurant garden which I go once a week. I love that little garden she got some unique plants there.


  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    Paulette,

    When I saw your flower posted I just knew I also had a picture of something similar and I found it. I took this last winter at an orchid nursery. This pic is not great and is not in clear focus but is sure looks similar. It hangs in a different way. I don't believe this nursery has other flowers besides orchids but I am not positive. There are so many thousands of varieties of orchids in the world that identifying it might be really difficult. My eye was drawn to this too as it is so unique and beautiful.


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  • PauletteK
    PauletteK Member Posts: 1,279

    Nancy, it is the same flowers, it grows outdoor in my area. I always like to take picture of this plant when I go to this Vietnamese restaurant. I’m so glad we have this thread we can share our hobby and beautiful pictures.


  • bandwoman1234
    bandwoman1234 Member Posts: 5,895

    :Paulette, I tried some internet searches but could find nothing similar to ID the flower. I am guessing it is some type of orchid. That is so great that you live in a climate where you can see such beauty year round. I do like the four seasons we have but the winters seem unusually long and I don't like the cold. I miss being able to photograph flowers and butterflies. I will be traveling back to see how my mom is doing in her assisted living facility. Otherwise I would be visiting this orchid nursery to take some beautiful pics during the winter.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

    Our kids could go surfing in the morning and snow boarding in the afternoon.Love living in SoCal.

  • PauletteK
    PauletteK Member Posts: 1,279

    the name of this flower is

    Abutilon Tiger Eye



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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184

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    Lunch at the beach today.

    Paulette, I have never seen one of those. Now I have to!.