Once Upon A Time

Last Day in Hawaii

Here are some photos from my last day in Hawaii. Sue has the rest of my digital photos on her laptop. I'll have to wait for her to burn them and mail them to me.....

The photos from the North Shore show how crummy the weather got there that day. All the other days had great weather. At least it wasn't pouring at the North Shore like I heard it was in Honolulu that day......

And here are photos from that morning on the Big Island where the weather was perfect....this is the Turtle House where we stayed. It was the most adorable homey cottage you could imagine:

Everglades Photos

The best part of my trip to Florida was visiting the Everglades National Park. While the park facilities are way outdated (with no help from the Bush Admin) the actual land/environment was lovely. However, you know it's bad when they show a film about the park that dates back to the '70s. I did make certain to buy some items from the gift shops there, knowing the proceeds would go to the park. I feel very strongly about the wonderful service our national park system provides in educating the young and the old.

Enough pontificating....here's some photos:

All Aboard -- the Photos

Here's some of the photos that came out. I had forgotten my camera (again!) and so I bought a disposable camera at the student union. (Read the story behind the pics in the long previous entry seen below.)

Here's the results:

This is the ampitheater earlier in the day. You can see the Dean signs that we hung up top.

Howard Dean is holding a University of Maryland sweatshirt. As he told the crowd at the rally, Go Terps. LOL.

Howard Dean with the folks that arrived on the bus with him.

Howard Dean being miked up for his via satellite interview with Paula Zahn on CNN

'CNN girl' on her cell phone getting a slot cleared for the interview.

Garden

This morning I decided to beat the heat and work in my garden in the early morning hours. My back garden is on the side of a hill which makes upkeep challenging. But I guess it's better than having grass that we'd have to mow. Over the last few weeks its gotten overgrown with weeds and wild strawberry vines. I went in and thinned much of what was there. Now I can see my impatiens, LOL. More weeding will be necessary, but by 10:30 am it was already getting too hot.

Also I clipped a couple of small trees down, trimmed my forsythia and ripped out some grape vine. Not bad for a hour or so's worth of work.

Here's some garden pics from around the place:

And lastly for the 4th of July, my flag: