Once upon a time...

I graduated from high school twenty years ago. Looking back at my senior year scrapbook, I found some funny notes my friends left on the autograph pages,  from the time I didn't have a telephone. These days, many kids, even the less privileged ones, have mobile phones. For a while there, I didn't have a house phone. And my friends knew it. They were an understanding bunch and my buddies with cars often showed up at my house to invite me out, the old-fashioned way, by knocking on the door. My mom didn't always let me out, but I was always glad my friends came by anyway.

 

From the 2012 Pacific Orchid Exposition

Select photos from my time at the 2012 Pacific Orchid Exposition.

Details on some of the plants can be found on my Pacific Orchid Exposition flickr set. I haven't attended in a few years and I'm glad I went. I even bought a new plant. I've been eyeing a certain one for years but I only saw two vendors selling them this year. Then again, I went to the marketplace late in the day of the last day of the Expo so folks could have sold out. Not that I needed another one. I have plenty of plants to take care of and this year, I will/must split plants and repot. I think I said that last year, but this year I will, especially the ones that live out on the flower boxes, before they get too heavy and huge to lift in and out of the window. 

In this season of giving

"I love this city. I love it for all of the things that make it visually and emotionally beautiful. I even love the unpleasant things about the city, in a way. Because no thing shines as brightly without a shadow somewhere in the picture." - Julie Michelle
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I don't know her but I'm an admirer of Julie Michelle's I Live Here: SF project. She is looking for support, putting a call out to local photographers in light of her current situation. If your time and talents aren't available, please consider making a monetary donation. And I'm sure your thoughts and prayers would also be appreciated.

I love San Francisco the same way she does and I would hate to see the project disappear.