Your Daily Photo (It's Palm Tree Thursday Edition)

Would your Thursday be complete without a snap of palm trees?

(didn't think so)

Your Daily Photo (Yet Again with the Oranges Edition)

Didn't get out to shoot anything new today, allergies acting up with the wind blowing hereabouts.

Will have stuff possibly of interest tomorrow, the rest of my California ballot propositions voting suggestions, along with an early take on Rock Band 3 (summary, love it), and maybe even a few words on the Lakers and Clippers.

(regarding the photo above, you'd think I'd be used to the vagaries of the autofocus on the 50mm lens by now, but nope, I still forget to press the focus lock and manually focus when dealing with a shallow depth of field and a variety of things to focus on in the field of view)

Your Daily Photo (This Is What Passes for Fall Colors in Santa Monica Edition)

Late October, and ripe oranges in the backyard. Life is good. Also, GO LAKERS!!!

Your Daily Photo (Staring at Stairs Edition)

The stairs at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, rotated to an odd angle, just because.

Your Daily Photo (Big Stripper is Big Edition)

Stay classy, Vegas...

(taken at the Miracle Mile Shops, in Las Vegas)

Your Daily Photo (Does a Pumpkin Have to Be Large to Be Great, Charlie Brown? Edition)

Just a couple hundred pounds worth of pumpkin for your Friday night perusal.

(shot Tuesday at the Bellagio in Las Vegas)

Your Daily Photo (Emptiness Edition)

Long time no blog. Shot taken driving back from Vegas after an impromptu mini-vacation. Might post some other shots later in the week from the trip, or take new shots, we'll see. Going back to a single shot per day, instead of five shots occasionally. Also, plan on blogging daily, again. There's stuff happening worth talking about, and even if my opinions aren't always worth listening to, no harm in putting them out there.

Your Daily-ish Photo (Happy Birthday America! Edition)

A bit of the dismantled Berlin Wall, installed at the Reagan Library. A vivid reminder of how much worse off the world would be without the principles, values, and people that our great nation creates with regularity.

Reagan was one of the best of us, amazing he managed to nab the presidency at such a crucial time. We lucked out as a nation, the 80s could have gone very differently.

Your Not Anywhere Close to Being Daily Photo (Forget It Blogreader, It's Chinatown Edition)

Sincerely Yours
---XWL

Your Daily-ish Photo (Freaky Bumblebee Thinks It's a Honeybee Edition)

For your entertainment, a slideshow of a freaky bumblebee, deceptively colored like a honeybee.

My backyard is full of surprises...

Your Daily-ish Photo (What Happens in the Purple Room? Edition)

So, as these posts aren't exactly daily anymore, a slight change in the title (the -ish ending is ever so versatile and useful).

And whatever happens under that purple light inside the 'motor clinic', can't imagine it being all that nice.

I'm thinking the scene in there is either Lynch-ian, or Tarantino-esque, but I could be wrong, I'll leave it up to you, dear readers, to decide what's happening in the purple room

In the purple room...
	there's probably a gimp being brought out, right now
	a dwarf is speaking backwards
	a groovy forgotten 70s hit is playing as someone loses an ear
	there's a man huffing NO2 while extolling the virtues of Pabst, Blue Ribbon
	nothing untoward, dramatic or creepy is happening, darnit
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Your Daily Photo (I've Got Your Brunfelsia Pauciflora Right Here, Buddy Edition)

So, didn't get around to shooting stuff, and the Lakers are less than two hours from tip, so I've got priorities bigger than wandering around this city taking snaps, but tomorrow, for sure, something will be captured.

Your Daily Photo (I've Got Your Romneya Right Here, Buddy Edition)

Same Romneya, different day (actually shot the same day, but being posted a different day, plan on taking some shots tomorrow afternoon, so if I can get them uploaded before the Lakers game starts, tomorrow's daily photo should actually be a photo from that day)

Your Daily Photo (Bloomin' White Flower Edition)

It's the return of daily photos, and daily blogging of some sort. Miss me?

UPDATE:

Looked up what kind of plant that is, it's a Romneya (aka Matilija), and is native to the region, and according to wikipedia produces the largest flower in the poppy family.

Your Daily Photo (Is That a Statue of The Gipper, or Are You Just Glad to See Me Edition)

Reagan, looking friendly and relaxed, at the entrance to his Library. Might get out and find something worth shooting tomorrow, so should be something other than Reagan Library snaps for Friday's photo.

Your Daily Photo (Ze Plane, Ze Plane Edition)

Is there ever a wrong time to reference a long dead, really crappy, Aaron Spelling show?

And the folks at the Reagan Library are right, the 707 based Air Force One was a better looking craft than the current 747 based sucker.

Surprised President Obama hasn't ordered a tricked out A380 like Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. Not like it's real money at this point, go ahead, what's another $475,000,000 or so.

Your Daily Photo (It Was From a Position of Uncompromised Strength Reagan Negotiated a Reduction in Nuclear Arms Edition)

A reminder, that we faced evil, unblinkingly, with strength. We met, and dealt, but did not surrender the option to build defensive weapons. The 'failure' at Reykjavik was a key component in reducing the threat that the Soviet Union posed, and helped hasten the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Reagan was willing to deal, but he was not willing to compromise.

If only we had a President again who reserved that attitude against our adversaries, rather than against his political opponents.

The seeds for Obama's defeat in 2012 are being sown, and watered by his own incompetence, hopefully he won't do too much damage between now and then.

Your Daily Photo (Giving the People What They Want Edition)

For some unknown reason, there was a big spike in traffic to my Flickr photos taken at the LA Auto Show these past few years. Probably just some bot hitting the all of flickr, but here's a Honda P-NUT for you, anwyay.

Your Daily Photo (Bloomin' Lilies Edition)

Our lilies don't bloom around Easter, generally, so make do with lilies from June. Happy Easter.

Your Daily Photo (Jelly Belly Edition)

Almost bought a huge thing of Jelly Bellys last Costco trip, but trying to cut down on sugar, so passed.

Guess I could have turned them into a sugary "LOL Obama" similar to this Reagan portrait, but Obama doesn't have a connection with the brand the way Reagan did.