Monday, May 5, 2014

What's it all about, Alfie?


VOTC disbanding, yes, no?

Have I mentioned that I think the Veterans Of The Casino need to face up and decide whether it is time to let go?

On the masculine side, there is yours truly (of course), JB, GM, SW and DW (honorary member), and maybe some others.

On the feminine side, well, I am just not sure I want to go there.

This is just a marginal distraction to the 2014 Bloom.  I apologize.

Have the Bidelspachers arrived?

This is about time for them.

Lemme know.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Flowers in May

From 2011 Flower Show

Linda Roman, Best in the Show, with Lee Middleton, President and Chair of the Flower Show
 

Harriet Powers, 1st Place, with Lee Middleton, President and Chair of the Flower Show
 

Nicole Roman, 3rd place, with two of her arrangements  

Pre-show activity

Back on track

A firery 2012 sunset from Pineapple deck






Friday, May 2, 2014

May Day ???!!!


[I am sure Memorial Day will be ok.]

Moscow holds first May Day parade since Soviet era

Thousands gather in Red Square for first time since 1991 to express patriotic fervour following Russia's takeover of Crimea
Red Square May Day parade
The square was a sea of brightly coloured flags and balloons as students, labour union members and nurses marched by. Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images
The traditional May Day parade made a return to Moscow's Red Square on Thursday, gathering tens of thousands of students, labour union members and passersby in an outpouring of patriotic fervour following Russia's takeover of Crimea.
The event has not been held on the square since Soviet times, when huge marches of labour unions and athletic organisations celebrated Soviet solidarity with the workers of the world, while members of the politburo looked on from the mausoleum holding Vladimir Lenin's mummified body.
Although president Vladimir Putin did not attend the event, many of the attendees held the same "Putin is right" and "We believe Putin" signs that were waved during his speech on Red Square when Crimea was officially accepted into Russia on 18 March.
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