fireworks

I am still at the fair. There are fireworks in the flower section.

more of my friends

When I'm at a parade, I feel loved.

I love a parade

Parades are so user friendly. I think most of the people who like me are in parades.

Passion in the Landis Arboretum

Popularly, passionflowers and especially passionfruit are frequently used with sexual or romantic innuendo, giving rise to such uses as a one-time soft drink named Purple Passion. The "Passion" in "passion flower" does not refer to sex and love however, but to the passion of Jesus Christ. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries adopted the unique physical structures of this plant, particularly the numbers of its various flower parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus Christ and especially the Crucifixion:

a photo is worth 6.5 words

One reason to travel is to build memories. Always take a camera. You never know whom you will meet.

locked door

Over this weekend I visited a lighthouse near the Oneida River. There is good news and bad news: the good news is that no admission was charged.

body language

Is it obvoious what is going on in the "bird-brain"? We can "read" other people because we are people. But we are not birds.