Spring and May 2025

• I pass this intriguing residential building most Sundays. Look at the jasmine that's bloomed on the balcony!!

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• Many beautiful spring blooms around town this month include Jasmine, Jacaranda, more Golden Poppies because they have a long season, seemingly ever-blooming Bougainvillea, Tulips at the Florist Shop, Milkweed, and several whose names I don't know. But I love them anyway!

• Tulips for Mothers Day

• One of my housemates made us a Saturday dinner. So good with potatoes, rice, beans, chicken, asparaus, green beans, and broccoli.

• We're having Game Night again at church! Snacks from the first inning after Covid no longer was such a major thing.

• Star jasmine along the sidewalk

• Blackberries and blueberries in my breakfast bowl

• Jacaranda in bloom along Santa Monica Blvd. They'll get purpler as the weeks go by.

• Memorial Day decorations. Always remember. Never forget. Be thankful and humble. We had lunch on the lawn after worship.

• I may write more later about the surprising Finland-Suomi connection that gave me hope.

• I've been picturing common milkweed in the windowboxes almost every week. It's gloriously abundant and I can't wait for the monarchs.

• Fourth Tuesday lunch at the church where the facilities manager offers yoga classes. After lunch we had a session of stretchy and helpful chair yoga (something I'd heard of and wondered about). Here's part of our salad with chili lunch.

• My nearby California golden poppies. This is their second or third blooming this year.

• A group of Santa Monica flowers conclude this month's highlights