It was a mistake to tell Brent to not send so many pointless pictures to my telephone. He now sends more than ever. My telephone gets too clogged with them to take ‘important’ messages, as if any are important. Brent gets annoyed if my telephone us unable to take more, or if I delete messages without opening them. Really though, I do not have time to see all of his pointless pictures and videos, and I should be able to accept messages from others also. If and when Brent actually sends something important, it is typically of such inferior quality that is is useless to me. #5 is an example of that. I should get some of my own pictures to share next week. I want to show off Rhody’s Roadie. Also, we ‘should’ be leaving for Washington on Wednesday.
1. This is nothing new, although it is a more recent picture of Brent’s back garden. Brent does like to show it off. It looks like a garage sale with a tiny kangaroo in the middle of it.
2. Less clutter in this direction reveals the office with the roof deck above. That is where I camp out when I go to Southern California. That is some lush scenery to wake up with.
3. Three of seven queen palms live across the garden from my campsite on the roof. The famous ‘Hollywood’ sign is in the distance behind them. Four more queens are out front.
4. This is not the four queens out front. It is four canopies on two trees, elsewhere in the neighborhood. Branched palms are very rare. (Doum palm is not evident in the region.)
5. Goodness! This is the most significant of these Six, but is of such bad quality. Brent is an idiot! It is one of only a few surviving Olympic Oaks of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. It was awarded to Cornelius Johnson, in conjunction with a Gold Medal, by Adolph Hitler, who would not acknowledge victory by anyone of African Descent. Brent was protecting the tree from developers who want it removed, but now wants to designate it as historic.
6. See if you can make sense of this one. It is no music video. The original was even a bit weirder. The Mexican fan palm is a Memorial Tree of Brent’s older brother Brian Green.
This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/
Tony Tomeo 
‘like a garage sale with a tiny kangaroo’ made me laugh.
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I was trying to be polite about it. I am none too keen on filling limited space with all that ‘stuff’, although the tiny kangaroo is cool.
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You know I love Brent’s garden 😉
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Of course. Everyone ‘else’ does.
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Wonderful pics
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Wonderful? I suppose they would be to those who appreciate such gardens. Brent’s garden is certainly more interesting than mine.
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Interesting info about the Olympic Oak.
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Yes! I can not believe that the tree was not already designated as historic! It is infuriating that the developer wanted to cut it down before anyone protested. I am concerned that the development will eventually kill it anyway. Once the new buildings are constructed and landscaped, the landscapes will get too much irrigation, which will accelerate rot within the middle aged tree.
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That would be a terrible shame.
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Sadly, I work with this sort of disregard regularly.
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I just love your comments on the photos. The one about the “tiny kangaroo “made me laugh right out loud, a very rare thing in these troubling days. Thanks.
Karla
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Well, I suppose that it is better to be amusing than to be offensive. (Brent and I have been perfecting our insults since 1986.)
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I would shop at Brent’s garage sale.
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Shopping involves expenditure. I prefer to take what I want and leave without paying for it. It would be happier in my landscapes, where it has room to grow.
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You are funny, please tell me the name of the little kangeroo. Brent is great too!
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Mamacita. She selects a single avocado to carry around while it ripens for a few days, and will not let anyone near it during the process, but then eventually eats it.
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I love #6. It reminded me of my days in Liberia, when I could pay a boy a nickel and he’d climb a palm lickety-split and throw a coconut or two down to me.
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You did not find the background music to be somewhat concerning?
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I had to go back for a listen. I was so focused on the sight that I never heard the sound!
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Oh, . . . it probably would have been better without the sound.
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Cool pointless pictures. I have never seen a palm trunk (3) like that!
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They are quite rare. There was a fourth trunk in there also, but it died a while ago. This is another in the neighborhood. https://tonytomeo.com/2018/02/21/two-heads-are-better-than-one/
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That is a cute ‘kangaroo’ and the palms are very majestic!
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Yes, the kangaroo is cool, but those palms are a bit excessive. Brent must brag to me weekly about them.
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