A bunch of flowers for those of you still dealing with snow… part 5…

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While we look at these lovely flower pictures that I took when Olivia and I were at the park the other day, can we talk about real stuff?

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Well, not real stuff, but blog stuff.

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I mentioned in a post recently that WordPress seems to be dying.

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Everybody I ask says their stats are lower than last year. I get lots of likes, but way fewer comments than I used to.

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Hey, I know it isn’t me… or my blog… I haven’t become less interesting.

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Do people actually come to our blogs anymore? Or are they just commenting on individual posts without seeing even our main blog pages.

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I do know that a lot of people that I really liked have left the blogging world, or only stop by now and then.

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Are we wasting our time here? Are we the last rats on a sinking ship?

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Just something to think about.

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But 2-year-olds do love it when you do funny Photoshop pics of them… part 2…

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There is Olivia, looking at the funny pictures of herself, which I Photoshopped and put in the last post…

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So I Photoshopped that picture of her for this post…

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I don’t know why this cracks me up so much…

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But it seems like I could keep doing this forever.

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But 2-year-olds do love it when you do funny Photoshop pics of them… part 1…

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Because little Olivia is sitting beside me, right now…

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And she is watching me make these pictures…

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And in a minute, I am going to take a picture of her looking at these pictures…

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And then I will post that… and maybe Photoshop it first… HA! The circle of life!

 

 

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It turns out that 2-year-olds are unimpressed by art galleries…

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They don’t care how big the picture of Jesus is.

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They aren’t impressed by the use of gold leaf.

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And tapestries just put them to sleep.

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To be honest, little Olivia was not really all that excited to be in the botanical pavilion, where I took all the pretty pictures of the flowers I have been showing you.

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I really thought that flowers and jungle inside a cool building would amuse her.

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But not so much.

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She didn’t really care about the flowers outside the building either.

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She just wanted to go have a snack.

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I hope you are enjoying the flowers more than she did… because I have more photos.

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tRump has ‘resting tyrant face’…

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A bunch of flowers for those of you still dealing with snow… part 4…

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A bunch of flowers for those of you still dealing with snow… part 3…

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Come on, that is a spectacular flower!

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And those ain’t too shabby…

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That one isn’t even open yet, and it is still lovely.

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Wow.

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Is that one carnivorous???

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Those aren’t even flowers… just colorful leaves… I wanted to see if you were paying attention.

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mmmm… furry…

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I love the color purple.

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Not a flower… wake up and smell the pollen.

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A movie review…

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Last night, Joey… that’s little Olivia’s dad, for those of you keeping track of details… and I went and saw The Great Wall. I don’t think I have ever done a movie review here before. I hate to start off by slamming Matt Damon, whom I really like, but man… that movie was bad. It was so bad that you should go and see it. Maybe this isn’t really a movie review so much as a warning about how bad this movie is. That being said, you should go see it… and then come back to this post, and we can discuss all the ways it sucked in the comments.

That should be fun.

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A bunch of flowers for those of you still dealing with snow… part 2…

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A bunch of flowers for those of you still dealing with snow… part 1…

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Okay, it isn’t really a bunch of flowers… it is a lot of separate pictures of flowers…

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I was being clever… sort of…

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San Diego has its down sides… like drought and wild fires…

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But we also have palm trees and beaches…

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And flowers bloom all year long.

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So, when I took little Olivia to Balboa Park today, I took a bunch of flower pictures for you all.
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And I do mean a bunch… (hence the ‘part 1’ in the title)…

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I hope you enjoy them… because Olivia was bored out of her skull in the botanical pavilion.

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