An English Girl Rambles: October 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

TODAY'S FLOWERS

The link for this meme opens on Sunday at 10.00 a.m. (GMT).

Won't you please join us by sharing your favorite flowers?

We would love to see them.

For those of you who have been supporting us each week, a very special thank you.

I'm still sharing photos from the San Diego Botanic Garden, slowly becoming one of those wonderful memories of a very special time spent in a beautiful garden.

TODAY’S FLOWER’S was created by our good friend Luiz Santilli Jr.

You can find beautiful and unusual flowers from all over the world by clicking here.

Friday, October 29, 2010

I passed this rather lovely dog patiently waiting for its human after I had gone shopping yesterday. You can enlarge the photo for better detail. The sun was behind him but I didn't feel like I could go up and ask him to pose in the other direction!

I hope he didn't have to wait too long. Just look at that face, adorable! If only he could speak.

"You might think I was sad from the expression on my face,

As if I were about to wail.

But honestly my friend, I would show you how happy I am,

If I wasn't sitting on my tail!"

Camera Critters is a wonderful meme created by Misty Dawn. Thank you Misty!

You can find other critter photos by clicking here.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

SkyWatch Friday

I went shopping today and I took these photos from a parking lot. After so much rain yesterday I was glad to see these lovely blue skies with lots of puffy clouds.

Thank you Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and Sylvia for hosting SkyWatch Friday.

If you want to join in you can click right here.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Nature Notes

Fossils

by Ogden Nash

At midnight in the museum hall

The fossils gathered for a ball

There were no drums or saxophones,

But just the clatter of their bones

A rolling, rattling, carefree circus

Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.

Pterodactyls and brontosauruses

Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.

Amid the mastodontic wassail

I caught the eye of one small fossil.

"Cheer up, sad world," he said, and winked,

"It's kind of fun to be extinct."

Not really but it is Ogden Nash and he is one of my favorite poets, who always puts such a positive spin on things.

My photos were taken at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego.

Michelle is the host of Nature Notes. Thank you Michelle for this great meme.

Michelle's Natures Notes is right here.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Watery Wednesday

Thank you 2sweetnsaxy for hosting this great meme.

You can get there by clicking here.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

TODAY'S FLOWERS

TODAY’S FLOWER’S was created by our good friend Luiz Santilli Jr.

You can find beautiful and unusual flowers from all over the world by clicking here.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Camera Critter

This is Pricilla. We met her when we visited Balboa Park on our trip to San Diego in September. She was with her human parents who were having a picnic nearby with a couple of other friends. Priscilla decided to take a walk and was munching on the grass when we came across her. She had attracted quite a crowd. After a while her family thought it was time to retrieve her. She took her own sweet time. I have an idea that Priscilla was a little stubborn as she ignored them at first. Eventually - only when she was ready - she ambled her way back, but only after being tempted by a tasty morsel this young lady offered her.

A full-grown Vietnamese potbellied pig can weigh between 100 to 250 pounds but are considered miniature compared to their cousin, the farm hog, whose weight can exceed a thousand pounds.

We have only had this type of pig in the US since 1985 and are still in the learning stage. It is thought that they live between 10 to 15 years of age. The average, full-grown pot-bellied pig can reach in height anywhere from 16 to 24 inches from its shoulders.