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8/29/2019

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…Continued from yesterday:
      The day before yesterday after I lost my camera in the Los Angeles airport my heart did indeed feel a little broken. Of course it wasn’t over the camera, which can always be replaced, but over the pictures I’d taken during the past few weeks, which can’t.*
       My my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren had been visiting Columbus the week before last and when they returned to Los Angeles on August 19 I followed them and stayed in LA for another week. So in losing my camera I lost all the pictures I'd snapped along the way during that time.
        Or so I thought.
        After I crawled up out of the dumps I remembered that I'd taken a few pictures on my phone and that there were a few more on the tail end of a memory card that I replaced in my camera with a new memory card a few days after my kids arrived.
       So from over the past few weeks I do in fact have a few pics of:

      1. A Visit to the Franklin Park Conservatory.
       On Thursday, August 15, Tom and I took the girls to visit one of the gems of Columbus, the Franklin Park Conservatory, a vast house of glass,

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...filled with plants of every imaginable kind,
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...among which are displayed the beautiful, whimsical works of Seattle glass artist Dale Chihuly.
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    Here are my grand daughters standing very still in hopes that one of the hundreds of butterflies flying around  the butterfly forest might land on them.   
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     But in spite of all the fascinating plants, art, environments, displays, and fun and educational activities for children at the Franklin Park Conservatory, including a "wetlands" area where the children could actually get wet, what my grand daughters most enjoyed was a patio at the far end of the park where there was located a few simple toys and some other children to play with.
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     2.  A Visit to the Doctor's Office for a Flu Shot.
     Before the flu shot,
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...and after.
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     3. The First Day of First Grade.
     
My grand daughter walking down the path from her first-grade classroom, which is perched high on a hill, at the end of the first day of school.

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    4. Celebrating the first day of school.
       We celebrated the first day of school by going out to dinner at Islands, a Manhattan Beach restaurant,
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...where somebody ordered an Impossible Burger.
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    5.  A Sunset Picture of Palm Trees.
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     6. The Denver Airport.
    
On my way home from Los Angeles after I'd lost my camera I snapped a couple of shots during my layover at the Denver airport, which looked to me like a shopping mall,

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​...and where I had some good shrimp fried rice at the City Wok.
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   And I have no pics to show of:
    1. Our Visit to Amish Country.
    
On Friday, August 16, Tom, myself, our daughter, son-in-law, grand daughters, our son and his girlfriend spent a night at the Berlin Resort in Amish Country. H
ere's a picture of the Berlin Resort I took a couple of years ago,
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...where the highlights for the children were playing in a miniature village on the hotel grounds and visiting an Amish petting farm and where the highlight for the adults was having not much of anything to do, which we all found rather nice.
     2. Shopping for School Supplies the Day Before School Began.
     3. My Other Grand Daughter's First Day of School.
     4. A Wonderful Bar Mitzvah - my first ever - that we attended on Saturday.
     5.  Palm Trees.
    
  I took dozens of pictures of palm trees, intending to do a blog on the palms of Los Angeles, which are not in the least indigenous to this area but were schlepped over in the early 20th century from the Middle East and Mexico by land developers just to make the place look attractive to potential buyers.

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​   Which they did.
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     Otherwise the palm trees of Los Angeles serve no purpose  - they don't provide wood or shade or food or protection to the land from erosion - than to look pretty, which they do.
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     But, not having any of the pictures I took, I guess that's all I have to say about the palm trees. And about everything else I don't have pictures of.
     *My son-in-law told me I should save all the photographs on my memory cards to The Cloud, which I’d subsequently been thinking about doing some day. I expect now would be a good time to stop thinking about doing it.
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Linda Sanders Coughlin link
9/2/2019 11:55:37 am

We love the Franklin Park Conservatory too! It's especially nice in the winter, but beautiful all year round! We enjoyed looking at the orchids last winter and also the fish in the small pond with our granddaughter. It's a special place!

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Patti
9/2/2019 12:00:41 pm

Yes, it is a great place, and a nice place to take your little ones when you're visiting Columbus!

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