![[bird of paradise bloom]](http://www.beansforbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/20120428-121419.jpg)
The bird of paradise had a hard winter. Its established leaves don’t look healthy. But it has some new growth and a nice flower coming in.
Month: April 2012
Bloom
![[Flower blooming]](http://www.beansforbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/20120427-172749.jpg)
These were a surprise last spring. They weren’t planted intentionally, but came up after we regraded the garden. I let them grow where they’d landed, but they got a little to much sun. In the fall, I dug up their bulbs and moved them under the lemon tree. I later rethought their placement and moved them again. Now they’re coming up in all three spots. This one, under the lemon tree, is the first to bloom.
Steps
![[insect on car door]](http://www.beansforbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/20120427-124235.jpg)
Walking cautiously, as if getting used to a recent injury. Or maybe it’s fresh out of its cocoon.
Time
It is time to get this blog going again.
Can anyone tell me why, when an image is included in a blog post, the default behavior of blog services is now to link the image to the actual image file? This convention makes no sense given that the embedded image is shown at full size. Why, in my day…
WordPress plugin developers, will you create a plugin that will link an image to a page that has a smaller version of the image, that in turn links to an even smaller version of the image, and so forth until the image is reduced to a single pixel? I would find this satisfying.
Yelp
He latches onto my right leg and hugs it loosely. I pat him on the back and he responds with three tight squeezes, a silent message sharing his anxiety and taking some comfort. “Oh, no. In a moment you’ll look up and realize your mistake. This won’t be good.” He doesn’t hear me. Then his dad wanders into view. He is startled, but crosses over to his own parent’s leg, letting out just a small yelp on the way.