As Seen in Atlanta #2

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These are my wonderful friends in Atlanta: Ian and Katya and their two boys Ben and Nikki! Katya has her own blog which you can see here:

http://itinerant-oak.blogspot.com/

Also, to see all the photos of our outing at the Botanical Gardens, click the photo!

As seen in Atlanta #1

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This shows the windows that were damaged during the tornado of 2007 and have not yet been replaced because they are custom windows and are still on back order.

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Our Garden

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I love springtime! I wish someone would invent a perfume as good as the garden smells right now!

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As Seen in Seattle #2

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Yep! I visited the very first Starbucks!

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As Seen in Seattle #1

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Monkfish....looks ugly, tastes pretty good!

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Everything is Relative....in Size

THIS is fascinating - it's rather dazzling to see it presented this way. (Click the photos to enlarge them.)






Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.

This is a Hubble telescope ultra deep field Infrared view of countless entire galaxies. Billions of light-years away.


Below is a close-up of one of the darkest regions of the photo above.