Picture This!!

SoCalLisa

SoCalLisa

HAPPY NEW YEARS AND

A ROSE FOR THE ROSE BOWL AND PARADE

SoCalLisa

yesterday, My Mom turned 98 years old...

PauletteK

Lisa Happy Birthday to your mom!

Beautiful pictures thank you for sharing.

Here is some lovely flowers pictures

Scottiemom11

Lisa, that is awesome. She is beautiful!

Scottie

bandwoman1234

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

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

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

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

bandwoman1234

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

Wren44

Looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.

SoCalLisa

PauletteK

Great shot Lisa!!!

Lookout to the Pear Tree from inside my house

SoCalLisa

where is the like button!

PauletteK

Let’s have a close upon these pear flowers

Took this one when I did my walk this morning

SoCalLisa

My backyard buddy

bandwoman1234

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

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

TaRenee

SoCalLisa

I think it's a phoebe.

bandwoman1234

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.

PauletteK

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,

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

Wren44

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

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

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.

PauletteK

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

: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

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

PauletteK

the name of this flower is

Abutilon Tiger Eye

SoCalLisa

Lunch at the beach today.

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