Plants I'm Growing: Flowering Cherry (December 4, 2014)

Yesterday, December 4, 2014, the little cherry by the driveway started blooming. I like this plant because, like the camellias, it blooms in the winter, when everything is wet and dreary. This is a cherry whose name I've forgotten, but it looked very pretty yesterday with fresh blossoms in the rain against a backdrop of orange leaves still on the plant.

Miscellaneous: The Martini Glass as Icon (July 18, 2013)

Interesting how the martini glass with a skewered olive or cherry remains the icon of choice for a certain kind of old-school bar. I was in Calistoga yesterday and saw this one over Susie's Bar, a place I'd never noticed before right on the main street. I liked the neon martini glass with what looks like a skewered  red cherry in it.

To see others in this series of photographs, click on the "cocktail glass collection" label. 

Plants I'm Growing: First blooms--Apricot, Cherry, Wallflower (2009)

Suddenly, after days of rain, it's warm and sunny. It seems like spring. Much has started to bloom in the past few days. Our Apricot tree on the 19th, the higan zakura cherry (for the first time ever), and one of our two Franciscan wallflower (Erysimum franciscanum) plants on the 20th.