Get ready for a lot of clover pictures... |
Dad went out and took pictures of multiple clover fields this year. |
I think he maybe went overboard since these are all from the first location... |
Of course, you can't tell where this one was taken. |
The albino clover in this one is kind of cool though... |
I don't know how the color changed so dramatically for this one just because they were in the shade... |
Look again... |
At least he finally moved on to a different field now... |
Most people don't spend this much time looking at clover, but we aren't done yet... |
Dad has moved on to the last field now at least... |
Another eye level view... |
Get ready for something other than clovers... |
OK... OK... So there are still some clovers in the backround, but really it is a dandelion picture... |
We had a fund raising concert this month... I'm not sure what this expression is all about... |
We were a little short on numbers for this concert... |
But I really had a good time as you can see here... |
We also had the lost choir concert of the school year - a few more people showed up for this one... |
Dad says, "At least this time I didn't have to erase a microphone..." (see two pictures ago) |
We may have gotten too ambitious for Harry's Heaven Day this year. |
Dad certainly went overboard with pictures this year... |
We got a lot of the plants into pots (or into the ground) on HHD, but Mom had to do the extras on Wednesday... |
See, I told you Dad went overboard on pictures... |
See... another flower picture... |
I'm doing real work here and what is Dad doing? Taking another picture... |
He picked these out and we put them around the water feature so he had to take picture of them too! |
Yes, I am practicing more now... |
But Dad wants to point out that that magnet is NOT on this car! |
After all our years in Forest Grove, we finally went to Hagg Lake! |
Buttercup got to go with us and had a great time walking around the lake... |
Dad, of course, took lots of random pictures... |
Focus on the water behind us... |
And don't think too much about how Dad managed to take this picture... |
Maybe Dad should have put this one first so you could really tell we were at Hagg Lake... |
Here we are again at the end of another month. Do you realize that this is month 187 of this website? That means it has lasted longer than Ozzie & Harriet, King of the Hill, My Three Sons, M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, Married... with Children, The Jeffersons, and even The Big Bang Theory. Sadly, not as long as South Park or The Simpsons... But at least we're brought to you commercial free!
You'll probably note this month that Lucie has fallen down on her responsibility. I mean, I posted plenty of pictures for the month, but Lucie's captions aren't really up to snuff... Which leads to an important question - what the heck does "up to snuff" mean anyway? Like me you probably thought it meant "up to the required standard". Obviously that is what I intended when I derided the quality of the photo captions this month, but actually it originally meant "sharp and in the know". As you will recall, John Poole wrote "Hamlet Travestie", a parody of Shakespeare in the style of Doctor Johnson and George Steevens in 1811 which included the line, "He knows well enough The game we're after: Zooks, he's up to snuff."
Of course, you may not be fully up to speed on your Doctor Johnson (not to be confused with Doc Johnson which has an entirely different origin - amazing what you find when you google random names) and George Steevens... As you know, however, Johnson was the Garfunkel of the pair with Steevens doing the heavy lifting which in the end resulted in Steevens playing malicious practical jokes on Johnson. Who can forget when he sent that series of anonymous items to the Public Advertiser promoting the claims of James Boswell as Johnson's biographer, in order to vex the official biographer, Sir John Hawkins. Hoo boy! What a kidder! In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he had a hand in the 1976 founding of that other Doc Johnson...
But I digressed... like that has never happened before... You probably start reading this every month thinking, "I wonder how far he'll get before he digresses." Well! That's a fine attitude to take! You try coming up with something new and exciting to say each month...
Of course, this month wasn't all frivolity... We remembered Harry again this month (along with all those who have given their lives for our country) on successive memorial days. Though Harry's Heaven Day started a bit cold, eventually the sun came out and we were able to work in the yard and pot new plants to bring some color to brighten the day. Harry probably would have been disappointed though that there wasn't a lot of frustration so no grumpy noises (i.e. cursing) from me to make him laugh...
I'm sure that he'll have plenty of opportunities in the future - until then, enjoy the pictures...