Odds & Ends

If this is the way to banish fat, I'll never be thin!! Can you imagine ingesting tapeworms??? 

One of Mel's bouquets for the 10-10-10 weddings.



Smedes Hall on the campus of St. Mary's School in Raleigh. It is on the Historic Register. Mel had a wedding reception here recently.

A centerpiece for a recent Asian wedding at the NCSU Park Alumni Club. (I didn't do these.)

A Busy Day ~ Show and Tell

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After a morning at the Flower Shuttle, a small group of us went to the Arboretum to see what spring had wrought. We saw flowering trees and shrubs, along with daffodils galore! I can't begin to remember all of what I'm showing you here, but I'll label the ones I remember, and show you more in a day or two.

I don't know what this is - but I'll call it 'pink clouds', since that is what it resembles. They are all over Raleigh at the moment, along with Bradford pear trees and red buds. It's gorgeous here, folks!

Flowering quince. I'm used to seeing quince that is a coral/melon color, but this was the palest pink.

This was called 'paper plant'. I'll try to do some research on this one.

A white tulip magnolia. Heavenly!



























A camellia.















Red bud.

After the nature walk, we went just down the road to Neomonde (New World) for lunch. I find it odd that until last Saturday, I had never been to a Lebanese or Middle Eastern restaurant, and now I've been to two of them inside of four days! Neomonde is the parent company of Sitti, the place I went last weekend. While more casual in style, the foods are just as fresh and tasty. Their bakery is on the premises too, so you can shop and take home baked goods, spices, other middle eastern staples and prepared goods. If you are not familiar with middle eastern foods, I urge you to find some - you'll thank me!

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

John Ray, naturalist (1627-1705)

New Definitions

ADULT:
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

CANNIBAL:
Someone who is fed up with people.

CHICKENS:
The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

COMMITTEE:
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST:
Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST:
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

HANDKERCHIEF:
Cold Storage.

INFLATION:
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MOSQUITO:
An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN:
Grape with a sunburn.

SECRET:
Something you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON:
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE:

The pain that drives you to extraction.


TOMORROW:
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

YAWN:
An honest opinion openly expressed.

WRINKLES:
Something other people have,

similar to my character lines

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The volunteers and workers for the Jim Valvano Celebrity Golf Tournament for Cancer Research were treated to a dinner tonight, at the new Park Alumni Center on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University. It was my first time at the new club and I must say it is a beauty; especially when compared to the old faculty club. During the program, it was mentioned that since the inception of the golf tournament fund-raisers, they have managed to raise more than $14 million for cancer research. It makes me proud that I am involved in it - even if only in a small way.