So you want to know if I received flowers yesterday. Or perhaps, you don't want to know if I received flowers yesterday. Here's a show and tell anyway.
The flowers pictured above are camelias from our garden, and the half-dozen roses came from Grandpère, who wanted to show his great love for me. I like a half-dozen roses, or even a single rose, for a dozen roses can be a little overwhelming.
The picture is a result of a great struggle with my new digital camera, and another great struggle to upload the photo onto my computer. Technology is aging me at a rapid rate.
The picture below is of the tulips sent me by my daughter - from Martha Stewart - selected and arranged by the great lady herself, I'm sure. No doubt, they cost the earth, but they are gorgeous and will last a long time.
Now you know what you've been dying to know. I hope that you're happy.
I like the photos of the flowers. As far as the second shot is concerned, you should have included a telephone in the photo. Then you could sing "put your tulips a little closer to the phone."
ReplyDeleteOW! Mickey!!
ReplyDeleteMimi, I'm happy. And I wasn't even wondering before. I love tulips in the late winter. Used to get 'em all the time, especially bright yellow ones, in Boston. Can't seem to find many of them here, but I haven't really found a florist in this sprawl-mall landscape. Very disturbing. I had no idea Martha Stewart had a flower-sending division also; is there nothing the woman doesn't design and sell? The tulips are beautiful, as are the other flowers. I'm glad Grandpère celebrated you and his love for you.
Congratulations on using the digital camera. I've yet to cross that digital bridge.
Padre, you know what you have to do. Please leave the stage.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jane. I love getting "dead" flowers, as MadPriest calls them.
Jane, I want someone to tell me an easy way to get them from my picture files to a Blogger post. That is still a monumental struggle, and afterwards, I don't even remember how I did it - so nothing learned.
And I wuz hoping you'd know and tell me, so I wouldna have to learn it. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteLawd have mercy, Padre Mickey! Didna nobody tell ya not to do stuff like that on OPB (other people's blogs)? What ya do on yer own is yer bidness; ya wanna drive yer friends away, go ahead.
I think Padre needs some 'gator rasslin' lessons. OCICBR.
Now you know what you've been dying to know.
ReplyDeleteNot really. We already knew you were beloved. But thanks for the pix. You'll become a technowizard yet.
Just pretend the camera is an alligator and rassle it into doing your will.
G'mere -- Love is SO to be celebrated. When my parents were first married (and for many many years thereafter) my father could not afford roses, so he gave my mother red carnations. And continued to do so for over 50 years until Alzheimers took the memory of what to do away. But even then, he wrote notes about loving her so very much. Amazing. Love to you and G'pere.
ReplyDeleteActually, I was practicing with the camera and uploading pictures and getting them on my blog. I have the first two down, but getting my pictures on the blog is a process I have not yet mastered to my satisfaction.
ReplyDeleteTrust me, Paul, I rassle, and the technology is a much more formidable opponent than the alligator.
SusanKay, what a beautiful story. I love carnations, too.
Such pretty flowers! I am most impressed by your expertise in downloading the pictures. I still haven't figured that out, but have daughter MJ or husband CB who will take pity on my and do it for me.
ReplyDeleteJan, thank you. I have even solved the problem of getting the picture on the blog post in a relatively simple way. I email the picture to myself and then open it in my browser, where I can copy it.
ReplyDeleteThere is very likely an even easier way, but - hey! - this works for me!
Well now, I'm assuming the flowers were from Gandpere....but with your following, who knows?
ReplyDeleteDP, love, you don't need to assume. The post states that the flowers came from GP and my daughter. I was too modest to show the dozens of flowers from my other fans.
ReplyDeleteDepending on operating systems and products, getting digital cameras and scanners communicating correctly and efficiently can be a real challenge. But you did it! You probably connected new brain synapses that just makes you FEEL old.
ReplyDeleteSome time in the late 90s, the firm that i worked for bought us digital cameras, and it was my job at our office to get them communicating with our PCs. It about made me mad, so I finally contacted the "Help Line" of the cameral manufacturer -- a conversation that ended with my saying, "So you're telling me you can't help me!"
KJ, I made the mistake of calling the store where I bought the camera for help, and the person who answered the phone told me that they didn't give out help or advice, that it wouldn't be fair to the customers in the store. (That's probably a good thing, because sometimes they can't tell you on which aisle to search for your product when you're in the store.) He said I'd have to call the customer service number of the manufacturer, and you know what that's like these days.
ReplyDeleteI told him, "You sell them, and then you're done, right?" He answered in the affirmative. I soldiered on without help and finally got it all to work.
Yay for me!