Blue, Yellow & Pink - blossoming in "L.A." 2

I don't know what the blue flower is ... it was growing in a lawn area.
The yellow & green is Golden Forsythia.
The Pink is a Camelia bush ... they are blossoming in so many beautiful colors right now.

red, yellow, & pink - blossoming in "L.A." 1

Every Spring these giant red clovers blossom along the roadways.
It isn't Spring without the golden yellow of dandelions!
My wife says the pink are red-bud trees blossoming.

Spring is Coming

This foto shows chives in the middle with little purple flowers ... growing alongside the road. This may be hard for you to imagine right now in SLC, Chicago, or Buffalo ... but down South, some of the trees are starting to bloom and these clumps of chives or onion are popping up.

They actually taste pretty good ... provided you pick them from a field ... far away from the road ... maybe even healthy too! :0)

Wednesday and Thursday were sunny and beautiful ... I had hoped to get out and take some fotos ... but it's raining this morning. So maybe I'll go weld on the 3 recumbent trikes that I'm building ... inside the shop building ...

Milwaukee

Guess what ... it was snowing in Wisconsin again.

After delivering in Elgin, IL ... I drove up to Milwaukee to pick up a load of frozen soy burger patties and turkey somethings ... these Bills of Lading (BOL's) aren't always exactly readable English ...

It only took them an hour to load me. They took off the 34 wooden pallets that I had inside my trailer ... but only put 7 bown-wood pallets back on (the rest were CHEP pallets ... painted blue). They assured me that there was just no room for the other 27 pallets (which cost me $6-$8 each if I have to buy them from them) ... so they kept them. They guy said, "Sorry, but we don't give you any credit for them. And if you come back here next week, we won't replace them." Does that sound like theft to you????

More snow was on its way to Chicago ... so I headed south as fast as I could ... and spent the night in Lexington, KY.

Going North

As I was headed north last Saturday ... and a lovely day it was ... I stopped for a couple of hours in Pelham, AL ... on the south side of Birmingham (I-65 exit 246). I parked in the BP truckstop and took a little nap before this fellow in the red glasses came to pick me up. We had a pleasant time talking and he took me to eat lunch at a burger/hotdog stand that sat on the top of a cliff. There's railing along the sidewalk next to it and tables along the sidewalk. A beautiful view out over the valley ... kind of northward ... but you don't see Birmingham. The place next door had one of those little historic signs that said "Lovers Leap" ... It was only 30-40 feet straight down, so I don't know that it would kill you (unless you landed on your head), but you'd certainly break some bones ...

Then I continued north to Glendale. The "Artsy Scientist" came to pick me up from the Pilot truckstop. We watched a Japanese animated movie about Howl's (How's) Moving House ... have any of you ever seen it? His lovely wife really likes it and requested it as a present last Christmas ...

I even stayed around for church the next morning ... this time I took a suit & tie with me ... instead of showing up as a truck driver in jeans & t-shirt. If I keep showing up every other week, they may start thinking that I'm a regular member of their congregation ... even though I attend a congregation in "L.A." on the weeks in between and even go to choir practice in "L.A." ...