Good morning!

Jack, Mary Ann, halkel, FlaJean, JeanneP, Shirley, thank you very much for your comments. I am moved very much. And I thought that it was good to take the photos at the hospital during my hospitalization.

angeface, Farrah is beautiful!

Sachiko, I will add my greetings along with all the others in welcoming you back.  You surely have been missed.

I am so happy to see you looking well and getting stronger every day.  That was a long siege in the hospital.  My very best wishes for a very quick recovery back to being able to do all the things you love to do.  Beautiful pictures of the cherry trees in your hospital garden. 

Continue good health for the future.

Joy

Jessie likes certain types of grass and will walk around the park and pick some out.   Posting her favorite, right at the start of our walk.  No idea the type, but she just picks a few blades and is ready to move on.  No problem for me waiting, am posting my view while she eats. Both photos taken this evening.

Angel,
Farrah is just beautiful,great shot looking right at us. I follow all the cat talk as daughter upstairs got a new one,born Xmas Eve, is a British Blue and called Bonnie. Comes downstairs to visit me and entertains. Think she has tried every hidey hole but now comes over if I put my hand down the side of the chair.  Must tell Jen about the cat grass..is that what they call catnip?

Joy, thank you very much for your gentle comment. I caused heart failure and fell down right in front of my husband on February 17, so my husband is anxious whether I fall down again. I have many things I'd like to do, but I'd like to decide not to make him worry.

Jack, Jessie is always lovable!

After cherry blossoms were scattered, wisteria, azalea bloomed in this garden.

Sachiko, beautiful wisteria, sadly due to recently moving home we left our over the garage hanging wisteria behind which when in flower was the most delightful of sights....
I do love seeing trees and greenery, we have so much around our parkhome site....and our new home, we have several flowering shrubs all around, to our front, sides and along the length of our back garden...

Sachiko, you done nothing to bring on your heart failure, please don't put the blame on yourself.....

Thank you all for your comments on Farrah! Jack, dogs like grass because it settles their stomach. Wonderful photo of Jesse and of the park, love the red bush!

Junee, thanks, catnip is an herb and cat grass is a special type of grass that cats are drawn to. Did you know that Spider plants have the same effect on cats as catnip?

The wisteria, flowers, and plants are lovely!

Jack wv, love seeing your Jessie again, yes dogs do tend to like and eat grass, guess its a medicine to them....oh and she is a fussy eater, she has her favourite in grass...she sure knows what she likes...

Vanilla-Jackie, angerface, thank you very much for your comments. Wisteria is planted in the garden of my grandfather and is a good old flower since I was young for me.

Sachiko, thank you and again how happy we are to see you back, and your lovely photos.

Jackie, My Jessie may be picky with her choice of grass but she will eat almost everything, now even the cicada.

Patricia, the bush is Barberry, Berberis Crimson I have them in front and the rear of my home.   Like them since they have thorns and the deer will not eat them.

Jack I used to have a dog who loved crickets and would go out and eat them under our street light and then come in and throw them up on the living room rug......ugh, yuke.

Oh Hal ! 
Yuk!

Patricia, have enjoyed reading about your trials and successes with Farrah.  Nice photos.  She is a real beauty.  Interesting name you gave her.  Sachiko, such lovely photos you took and so glad you are improving.

We inherited two hydrangea bushes and they are beginning to bloom.  We were wondering what the color would be and now we know. 

Hal, I thought Jessie was just playing with a cicada the other day, but nope, she ate it.  They will not poison a pet but too many may cause problems so I am keeping them clear of the patio.   Several locals have cooked and eaten them, I will not join in.   Was just out watering several spots on the lawn that I repaired and planted grass.   When I do I turn the hose on the pear tree to wash off/chase the cicada, hoping at least some will move on.  Pretty wild when they take off, they do not attack but some land on me.   My last trip one landed on my right shoulder and another squeaking one landed on my ear.  Good thing they did not decide to meet in the middle of my empty head

Jean, the hydrangea blossom is so pretty, ours do not last long, I would get out the snippers and put them in a vase to enjoy inside.

Jack, I would love to see some of that here but it is probably not a good plant for the arctic! With a four foot by five foot recessed balcony, facing northwest, there is not a lot I can put out there.

I did buy an African daisy the other day which was lavender with white interiors. This next blooming, on the same plant, are white. I did see several planted  herbs quite large, chives, different basils, marjoram, and thyme. I have herb seed packets that I might give away and buy the planted ones! I know that's cheating....

You can keep your cicadas down there if you will. We have noseeums, an extremely tiny biting fly/bug that loves to get you in the woods. Mosquitos aren't that great either.

The lady down and across from us was putting out some blue hydrangeas yesterday, quite nice to look down on from here! Yours are so pretty, Jean!

Jean, thank you very much!
Your hydrangea is very beautiful!

I walked this long corridor of the hospital every day to become able to walk. There was the parking lot for the patient and azalea bloomed on the other side of the door.

Sachiko, I'll bet you were the prettiest patient there.  Nice place for azaleas so you could see them.

Mary Ann

Sachiko I hope we will soon see you walking some of the tours you have taken us on, and paths I would never climb.

Mary Ann, Jack, thank you very very much for your comments!
But, Jack, I am sorry, I who suffered from heart failure cannot climb the mountain anymore. I’ll find different pleasure.

Sachiko, it is not often I see a patient inside a hospital with such a wide smile on their face.....it does sound like they took great care of you...I also notice how clinically clean and spacious your corridor looked....and they certainly cater for the masses of cars....I am assuming this corridor was a separate building away from the main hospital, but good thought on their part to grow flowers on their premises, they must have realised the colours and fragrances do wonders for patients morale....

Thanks, Patricia, I will check local for the seeds & then Amazon.   My cats are eating a lot of "people" fresh hamburger, or other beef, canned white meat chicken, rotissery chicken, egg  & Chicken of the Sea salmon... along with Friskies canned meats & dry "Indoor Delights Complete".  They would eat all day & night if I let them. 

Jack, Jessie looks so pretty, her fur really is beautiful.  I'm sort of surprised they don't have vines growing on that "arbor", but cleaning it off would be a nightmare & it is so striking as is.

Sachiko, your wisteria is so much fuller, more colorful, than what I have.  I love to look at the thick ropes of trunk growing & braiding as it goes up the tree.  We planted about 6 or 8 azaleas one year and not a one survived our cold winters. 

Jean, your hydrangea bush is gorgeous!  My mother never had them but a friend of hers had some in front of her house.. massive big blue blooms.   Lucky you!

Sachiko, the hall I walked in the hospital looked just like that.  I did fine the first 3 days and then they put me on a pill for A-fib that caused me to quit progressing, could not walk half as far as I did the first day.  My husband was the one that realized what my problem was after I got home, so worked it out of my system & been fine ever since. You look great... !

My-MY... way past my bedtime, for sure!   

Sachiko, that long corridor looks just like the one in the San Francisco hospital where I had surgery.  I suppose all modern hospital are build on the same model all over the world. But they did not have that "TV screen" on the ceiling to show directions.

Here too they have a rack with sanitizing lotion  at the door of every room, to kill hands germs.

You look great and with keeping your morale high I am sure you will improve very fast.

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Here is little Aviv with his bonfire.  This is Lag B'Omer festival in Israel and bonfires are lit all over the country.  Google it for more details!

So P bubble, is this the same little boy I once saw you holding in your arms, or crawling around on the floor playing with toys?.... my, he is growing up into a fine young man now........

( Anniversary of death )....... customs and practices......" While the Counting of the Omer is a semi-mourning period, all restrictions of mourning are lifted on this 33rd day of the Omer. As a result, weddings, parties, listening to music, and haircuts are commonly scheduled to coincide with this day among Ashkenazi Jews. Families go on picnics and outings. Children go out to the fields with their teachers with bows and rubber-tipped arrows. Tachanun, the prayer for special Divine mercy on one's behalf is not said, because when God is showing one a "smiling face," so to speak, as He does especially on the holidays, there is no need to ask for special mercy....."

Vanilla-Jackie, Shirley, so_P_bubble, thank you very much for your comments! When I fell down by heart failure and slept for one month and just began rehabilitation, what walked that long corridor was serious. But I was very glad when I became able to walk as for several laps.

so_P_bubble, Aviv became a handsome boy. Thank you about Lag B'Omer festival.