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The 2005 Philadelphia Flower Show This year's Central Feature exhibit is titled "America the Beautiful," and showcases great garden ideas from around the country. William Penn had once described Philadelphia as a "green country town". The Pennsylvania Horticultural society founded in 1827 has worked diligently through the years to maintain that important connection of community through horticulture. The Flower Show proceeds go to support the non-profit activities of PHS, included Philadelphia Green, a national model for urban greening projects. This year, the flower show included an exhibit "When Life gives you Lemons...make Lemonade", which raised awareness and funds for pediatric cancer. A Dutch Treat A intricate container display which highlights the intergal part plants have in our homelife. Several "rooms" were created to illustrate this ... read more

One fine day in L.A. I (Gerry) decided to visit the Getty Center in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. I reckoned it was only 4 or 5 miles away so I set off walking, not always an easy thing to do as most US routes are set up for cars not pedestrians. I didn't pass a single person and on long stretches there wasn't even a pavement, but I had the company of thousands of cars driving along the world's busiest road, the 405 Santa Monica Highway! The Getty Center is a museum and art gallery built over 750 acres by the J.Paul Getty Trust. The building itself is an architectural wonder (although I wasn't overly impressed with it). Most of it is made from a light-coloured stone called travertine, 16,000 tons of it! ... read more

Okay, this solidifies the travel plans a bit more. Lisa will be flying in on May 1st to help me and Jake sell all our worldly possessions and move to storage in Eagle River area so that we can leave Homer by the 16th. My mom's ticket was bought for August 5 to fly home to Minneapolis, this is plenty of time to mosey through BC and the Yukon and back to Homer to check out the Kenai Peninsula and fly home. Jakes tickets are purchased, but his return flight doesn't leave until Sat. July 23rd now which gives us an extra day, but his outbound flight had to be arriving in Seattle at 5 am on the 20th. This means we need to leave Alaska one day ahead, early on the 15th instead of the ... read more

Okay, so I already have a change of plans. My grandmother "Mamie" just informed me by email that she will be in Minneapolis for the first two weeks of June. This changes my plans with going to Ontario. I am going to Ontario because my children have never been to our family's annual camping spot there, and my sister is bringing her husband and was looking forward to having as much of the family there as possible. But, at the same time, my children have not seen my grandmother since they spend one afternoon with her and Papa at the Casino in Hinkley in 2002. I was going home to pick the girls up and my grandparents were leaving for Texas after having not been able to see the girls all summer. I arranged to have ... read more