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Wonderful and mysterious: At the ballpark with my favorite people; June reading (two mysteries and one just bewildering); delicious; new library card and system; palms and herbs and handprints or raccoon prints? #photography#aweekofphotos

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Take note.

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Celebrating more than one kind of flag on Flag Day meets No Kings Day in South Orange County!

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Gloom and bloom June: Gloom was drizzlier than usual resulting in puddles but also bright flowers. Shadow seemed annoyed with the jacaranda blossoms, Baxter has no such problem and a Heritage Park turtle rejoices in the afternoon sun. #photography #aweekofphotos

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He’s not mine but he is my very handsome walking companion some mornings.

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My week randomly: Latest ikebana; fellow volunteers working California Democratic Party Convention; a laugh-out-loud car decoration; a rose at The Huntington; great talk on immigrants and crime (not what most people think); jacaranda in bloom; car wash abstract. #photography #aweekofphotos

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Last ikebana lesson until August 😪 Sogestsu Book 3, lesson 11 — emphasis on the shape of the vase. Nice to make use of My husband’s ceramic skills and my sensei’s editing. Of my first effort although I adjusted again when I got home. #ikebana #sogetsu #flowers

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My birthday week: Delicious treats, lovely cards and flowers (gifted and from ikebana class), my first pair of Birkenstocks (what took me so long?), and while the trophy isn’t mine (it’s SCR’s Tony from a few years ago), it felt like an award-winning week. #photography #aweekofphotos

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Latest ikebana lesson put the emphasis on thinking about the vase, so I emphasized the curve and the color of the leaves with some freest color contrast from sunflowers and statice. #ikebana #sogetsu #sogetsuikebana

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This is neither good nor fake news.

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Is being well organized hereditary or learned? It’s hard to tell in Japan.

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My week: Touristy but great Sunday in San Francisco followed by a rainy Monday exit; prripe organ preview; latest ikebana arrangement; reading at the DMV; curly willow leaf; a gift from traveler to France. #photography #aweekofphotos

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Back in ikebana class and playing with color contrast, in this case shades of red and shades of green. #ikebana #sogetsu #book3

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San Francisco always cries when I leave. Love this place even if I’ll always be just a tourist.

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Hello not-that-gray May: Cloudy mornings but plenty to light up my life from a successful book sale, time with Ben and Stephanie in San Francisco; sunlight through trees and blossoms of all kinds. #photography #aweekofphotos

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I’m happy to agree that nobody needs 30 dolls. We also don’t need a grifter-in-chief.

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One more from Japan where we saw everything from thatch-roofed houses to futuristic buildings plus castle, shrines, temples and Shinkansen (bullet) train stations. #photography #japan

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A few favorite animal images from Japan — some of them real: a monkey at the bamboo forest in Kyoto, fish kite in Shirakawa-go, squirrel statue in Takayama, food-seeking deer on Miyajima Island, amusing statue, origami cranes for Hiroshima, a fox guarding the Inari Shrine. #photography #japan

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Eat everything advice taken while visiting Japan: French dinner, fabulous soft ice cream, salad, soup and sushi from a cooking lesson, octopus at the fish market, Hida beef, mystery breakfast, steamed regular and macha tofu. #photography #japan #food

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I’m back from Japan with its Golden Week throng of sightseers (foreign and domestic). Photographing plants was my respite: ikebana on a building in Kyoto; Japanese maple; rhododendron and the Atom Bomb Dome in Hiroshima; late blooming cherry blossoms; irises; hyacinths; a bamboo forest. #photography

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First week in Japan: A little late posting but so much to see and do from world’s busiest intersection to a peaceful tea ceremony to French tributes to Japan to market places and black eggs and rhododendron and the good luck of seeing Fuji-san. #photography#aweekofphotos #japan #fortunateone

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Fuji-san decided we were worthy this morning. #photography #japan

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Random fun and wonder: Most of the Luv2 tennis team; cloudy morning; dramatic ikebana arrangement using strait and curved lines; Baxter admiring chalk art; delicious if not beautiful new gnocchi/sausage/peas dish; dauber wasp abode; bougainvillea. #photography#aweekofphotos

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My book group reads a 100-year book once a year, meaning a book published 100 years ago. This year we read “The Painted Veil” by Somerset Maugham. An interesting contrast to today’s world that holds up well thanks to the writing. 📚💙

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Straight and curved lines for Sogetsu style ikebana: Waterfall or prehistoric spider? I like it no matter what. #sogetsu #ikebana #gerbera #sagopalm #tiplant #pussywillow

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You, too, can support community theater.

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From yellow to red with stops along the way: Blossoms spotted on daily walks. #photography#aweekofphotos

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Sometimes the news makes me laugh. OK, it's a mean, sick laugh but I still laughed.

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Randomly: Trying so save democracy one sign at a time; spring concert music; trees collecting cones and model airplanes; a guard bird; a great haircut; sweetgum tree. #photography #aweekofphotos

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Visual representations of today’s news. I didn’t rearrange either the cone or the model plane.

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It’s felt like the wild kingdom in my neighborhood lately, and that’s no April Fool. #coyotes #wildlife

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Blossoming: Trees (fruit and ornamental), fortnight lilies, wild irises, tomato plants and geraniums. Spring in California has arrived. #photography #aweekofphotos #flowers #springtime

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Nixon was the president but a lot of this still rings true. “What else didn’t you know?”

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