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Oh don't you love blogger!!!!!! You write a heartfelt piece of prose which receives perhaps 5 comments  Then bang out a bit if shiteabout a cheap cushion that looks like a big minnow  And bam!!! 40 comments stat!!!! Go figure  Love it...... I've just finished work . The hospice is a bit fraught as we have covid amongst the staff, but protocols have been followed rigorously so it's hey ho , best foot forward. I'm working all tomorrow too. So dearhearts , I am going to leave you with this video It's a bloody delight. It really is A Spanish bride is surprised by her husband after he has organised that her students deliver his wedding ring, and the camera captures two delightfully sweet people without any words or further explainations ..... With all the shit going on in the world  Please....just enjoy it , for what it is   It's just lovely 

I decided to sketch one of my favorite wildflowers which is called Mountain Dollar plant.  These buds are really about the size of my thumb tip and if they appear big it's because I took close ups - some of them turned out - others fuzzy but it shows what they look like.   After the blooms fall off and more towards end of summer and then fall - the seed pods have turned a silvery transparent color and you can see the seeds that have formed inside.    This season has brought an abundance of which I've never seen before in seven years, to the mountains up here.  They seem to only be up to about the 5000 altitude mark and after that I rarely see them.  They are all over my yard at this point but the blooms are fading.    However, the wild grape soda lupine is blooming more abundantly at higher altitudes and I'm always trying to capture them on photos as we drive up to different areas.  We've been going to Big Bear quite a bit lately and there have been fields of these beau...