Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
— Oscar Wilde
Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words.
These are my Treasures for the past week. This week I even have photos!
- The large (pint) jars of pickled ginger on each table at a Japanese restaurant we passed (we should try this place!)
- Three Great Egrets sighted standing alongside along HWY 280 (as we were driving down the Peninsula). [photo; the photo is from the web, taken of an actual Stanford egret, but not by me.]
- Ground squirrels on the Stanford campus
- The Tromp L'oiel paintings on buildings in Palo Alto. Today we saw one in which two little
green ETs are going up a stairway behind a building.None of it, not even the stairway, is "real".
[photo] - The Palo Alto United Methodist Church, which resembles something out of a Disney movie.
[ photo] - An interesting sculpture surrounding the entrance to a building we passed. The sculpture commemorates the history of transportation, from
foot, to horse, to carriage, to automobiles through the decades…
[photo1, photo2] - The look of the new downtown Palo Alto parking garage. [photo]
- The yellow Volkswagon beetle belonging to a local carpet shop – the rear end was decorated as if there was a carpet hanging out of the trunk (is that the trunk on a VW?)
- A Suzuki X-90 – such a funny little squashed-looking automobile
- A boy wearing heelys, skating ahead of us in a parking garage.
- A birthday call from my parents
- An owl wafting over the highway, highlighted by the street lights, as we drove to dinner
- Softly snoring kitties
- A woodrat, up close and personal, in the birdfeeder!
- My neck feels so much better after an adjustment! (it really hurt two days ago)
- The bank teller wishing me a "Happy Birthday"
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