Faith, Family, Food and Dogs

I am closing in on finishing the yard area. I found a Crepe Myrtle sapling behind my back deck. I thought it was dead but it has new leaves on it. It will get planted behind my front porch. I will add two shrubs at $5.00 each from Wal-Mart, put out some new mulch and then I'm down to spraying the weeds for the rest of my time here,,,assuming I find a new place to move to. I have had a couple of neighbors comment that the place looks better than it has in a long time. My hard work is paying off. Anyway, in this round the results of my hard work are starting to show. First up is my planter box. Originally this is where I had put some Sweet Basil. The basil took off at first then developed black mold on the underside of the leaves and within two weeks all I had left were little brown, dead twigs. In the 10 years I have been growing basil this was the first time it had died on me. People said it was the sun, not likely. Or maybe the wet spring, good thought. Or that the feral cats ...

I try to be observant, very observant. I love the picture books where you have to find all the differences between the photos. At signal lights I am not looking at my phone, I am looking around. Sort of like my own personal game of I-Spy or Where's Waldo. There is no rhyme nor reason to these photos. Just things I saw and thought,,,hmmm In case you forgot, you can click on a photo for a larger version of it. I saw this old sign marking the way to an auto repair shop. It looks like his nose and all along his arm were light bulbs. Perhaps they showed you the way to good auto repair. It looks like a tire slung over his shoulder. This building intrigued me. It was originally built between 1910-1911. It originally had 3 floors and a 1,500 seat auditorium. It now is office space but it did make the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is the oldest Shrine Temple in Florida. As I would drive through Jacksonville I would see this atop an older building and always wond...