LIP GLOSS

The poppies are showing their inner glisten here & when that happens, some leering eye pods are always lurking about.

The header is tonight`s sunset, & is backed up by more, of a larger size, (Beth)

As promised on Planet Earth, a pie I baked last night, & on the same menu, the Marmalade Cornish Hens I cooked for tonight`s meal.

Have a wonderful day & you are allowed to guess about the Lady from The Sea Of Love.

SEA OF LOVE

I will have to let you wonder on this image for a few days.

On Planet Earth, a poppy in 3D.

I`m still getting gate shots from around Malibu.

It`s not like I had them on file.

It`s a great hunt though.

Have a great day .

Tomorrow I`ll post a pic of a cherry pie I baked tonight.

BLOOD ON THE LEAVES

Tonight`s sunset.

Andif,

Teri was amazed at your bouquet of Frost Flowers.

Thank you.

"BEST WISHES" BLOOMS

Teri is steadily improving.

At this rate she should be recuperated by Easter.

These are some of the flowers she received, although she is against cutting flowers off at the neck.

She does though, greatly appreciate the thoughts.

Have a great day.

STORM`S END

The storm of the last few days is over.

By the storm, I mean the one involving Teri.

I`m the titular head of her medical team, so she`s under the best of care.

She will be just fine.

Thank you for all your wishes.

I compiled all of them from different blogs & presented them to her.

She was most impressed &very very pleased.

She read every single one of them numbering almost four dozen.

Collectively, it seemed to have helped enormously.

I shall never forget.

The post image is from tonight`s sunset & represents the steps to recovery.

There are more merged images beyond.

On Planet Earth, her crashed car. You do not have to go see, but it`s a testament to her relative good fortune, having not suffered more severe injuries.

THREE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

I don`t have much time tonight.

I`m actually distracting myself.

Teri was in a horrific accident tonight.

She`s in the hospital with two collapsed lungs & other unknown (to me) injuries.

I just got back from the hospital but may be going back if I`m allowed to spend the night there with her.

Her daughter & her son are with her for the time being.

Some moran turned right in front of her from opposing traffic as she was going 50 miles an hour on Pacific Coast Highway on a green light.

There may be some confusion as to who was driving the other vehicle.

It may have been a fourteen year old who`s mom let her drive them home from class.

I felt helpless holding her hand in the emergency room.

LADIES NIGHT

This is my old & beautiful friend, Amado.

He is from Mexico.

He is world famous as an orchid expert & has over 700 varieties that he bred.

He has won hundreds & hundreds of awards, but he only loves the rewards of growing his lovely ladies.

His Orchid Ranch is surrounded by grounds that are exemplified by the image at Planet Earth.

Note the large plant growing on the branch of the big Sycamore.

He has many of those & this one is small in comparison to others he has.

I have dozens of images from the property which you shall see soon.

I spent some time with him yesterday, but I was very happy to see him at the ranch again today, & made sure we had our picture taken by Berta, a small Mexican girl who works for him.

He is a very gentle man.

It must help account for his age, as he turned 90 a short time ago.

I met him over 30 years ago playing pool at a bar over a few years.

We always had a great time challenging each other while improving our game.

His wife would quietly sit & watch us play.

She`s still sitting quietly in the background.

Linked to this image I have a set of some of his orchids.

One image is a set of orchids I processed tonight along with a screen capture of the folder that all of the shots I took today of the orchids though I haven`t gotten to all of them yet.

I have quite a few folders yet to go through from today`s shoot & you`ll soon get to see them.

Also on Planet Earth, I did a vertical merge of a tree with a climbing vine/plant taken from a footbridge across the creek that runs through the property.

I`ll describe the place when I post the images.

I`m dedicating this post to all the ladies in my life, past & present.

(There are quite a few surprisingly, & I`ll be posting some stuff soon about an art show I attended last Sat. where I met many of said ladies from my past.)

Enjoy your visit to my friend`s paradise.